UT Austin vs Georgia Tech vs UIUC

cosmicfish
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:43:19 +0000

Maybe yes, maybe no. Its all speculation, and I don’t even understand what “better” means. What is the definition of the term?

I would consider “better” to mean that the school produces “more competent” engineers and researchers. In my experience, GT is, by this standard, “better” than the vast majority of schools. This is a personal opinion - I know a few GT graduates and I have been very impressed by their competence with respect to their peers. I have not gone through and done any detailed comparison studies of the two schools, and do not personally know any UCLA engineering grads.



I even posted this thread about it:

UCLA vs Gatech

I got no really conclusive answer, except obviously the GT affiliates came to toot their own horn as usual.

I find it interesting that at the end of the above thread, you were trending GT, a school you now seem to be condemning. I also am having trouble finding the GT affiliates “tooting their own horn” - the three other posters all seemed relatively ambivalent. That no UCLA engineering grads commented just seems to indicate that (for whatever reason) they are conspicuously absent on these boards.