<p>Hello i am thinking about transferring to USC from RPI. I completed my freshman year with a 3.8 GPA at Rensselaer and applied as a transfer to USC and got accepted. Im not sure if i should stay at RPI or go to USC. Which school has a better aeronautical engineering program? I also really wanted to go to california but if Renssealer is better i will stay there. Also i am thinking about getting my masters and which school will it be easier to get a future job. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Still looking for some opinions.</p>
<p>Since no one else has responded, I think USC is marginally better than RPI for aerospace engineering, but not so much that your job or grad school prospects will be much better either way you decide to go. The more important factors are where you want to live after you graduate (if on the west coast, maybe go to USC), and what sort of student loans you will end up with.</p>
<p>On a side note, you only go to college once, and I would have much rather have spent my college years in sunny Southern California with the babes at USC than at RPI. What on earth were you thinking when you decided to go to RPI?</p>
<p>Because everyone knows how many babes major in Aerospace Engineering.</p>
<p>It’s called taking a few sociology electives outside of your major… 
At RPI, you get all the prestige of going to Penn State, with all the action of Oral Roberts University. Dustast, be glad you have the opportunity to rectify this situation. Go to USC, don’t look back, and you can thank me 10 years from now.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen and heard, the USC AE program is more theory-heavy, while RPI is more practice-focused. I don’t know the details of course, having only gone to USC.</p>
<p>The big advantage of going to USC is the networking there. Southern California is still the aerospace capital of the world, and you will be able to meet people who know people at USC.</p>
<p>Big aerospace companies and organizations are based in California. JPL, SpaceX. I would go with USC. JPL is literally like 30 minutes away from USC and 20 minutes away from SpaceX.</p>
<p>Dustast - you mention “aeronautical” instead of “aerospace”. What is your interest - airplane/aero related or space? I would think SoCal has both but more so the space side.</p>
<p>im not sure if im doing aeronautical or aerospace yet. Cant decide which.</p>