<p>Looking at EECS major. </p>
<p>Differences in research opportunities, course difficulty, course diversity, amount of electives, professor involvement?</p>
<p>Also, how is the support system different, social scene, college city, weather?</p>
<p>Reputation of EECS major? Likelihood of finding fairly good paying jobs? Which would look better to a grad school?</p>
<p>I am offered similar aid packages, and I get to decide between these two. Any opinions would be helpful, thanks :)</p>
<p>mit fo sho</p>
<p>I'm choosing Berkeley over MIT and Harvard. It just depends on what you want, I want to stay in California over cold new england schools, but to each his own.</p>
<p>any other factors, other than weather? (I like cali weather better too)</p>
<p>Well, there was the financial side too, Berkeley offered me like 15k in aid, whereas the privates didn't offer that much, and most was through working or loans or other crap. Harvard never really interested me too much, but at the end it came down to MIT Sloan or Berkeley Pre-Haas, and with a better campus and less super nerds, Berkeley just seemed like a cooler place to be. Admittedly I probably would have chosen Stanford over them despite a lack of an undergrad business program, but it was the one school out of like 10 that I didnt get into. However, I got over it pretty fast, because Stanford is like 5 minutes away from my house and Berkeley is 1 hour, so its a convenient distance where its not too far but not too close.</p>
<p>Here's a post that might interest you:</p>
<p>By the way, congratulations on great options.</p>
<p>I did look at that thread, but the trend seemed to place berkeley in dead last vs mit,stanford, and caltech. :(</p>
<p>I was looking for a more direct comparison between MIT and Berkeley, as I find this decision really tough. Btw, I'm pretty nerdy myself, so nerdy = good. (I play DDR, enough said :P)</p>
<p>I would say thats because they might've been biased. I would say MIT is the best, with Stanford/Berkeley tied for second, and Caltech in dead last. This is because Caltech isn't meant for studying practical matters like engineering, and is more for theoretical types of physical science and math. And MIT is definitely geared towards Engineering. If you want to go down that path, I would go for MIT.</p>
<p>For EECS, MIT is way better than Berkeley.</p>
<p>To the extent that the strength of graduate programs can be a proxy:</p>
<p>Top graduate programs in Electrical Engineering according to USNews:</p>
<p>1) MIT
2) Berkeley, Stanford tied</p>
<p>Top Computer Science grad programs:</p>
<p>1) Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford all tied</p>
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<p>What data were you looking at SimpleTruth?</p>
<p>I do think the OP wanted more specific data than US News or than your blanket statement, as he's surely well-informed enough to have his own opinions. He is looking for others who know.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any details of the differences, other than academics, and the obvious weather, etc, stuff? :P</p>
<p>football. go bears.</p>
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I was looking for a more direct comparison between MIT and Berkeley, as I find this decision really tough. Btw, I'm pretty nerdy myself, so nerdy = good. (I play DDR, enough said :P)
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<p>MIT has an arcade with DDR Extreme on campus, while Berkeley's arcade closed down two years ago so you have to go to San Francisco to play, a 30-minute BART ride away.</p>
<p>anything more about the social scene, city life?</p>
<p>Choose the school with overall smarter students. When you are surrounded by smarter peers, you tend to learn more and become smarter easier.</p>
<p>No offense, but there are dumb people abound at Berkeley. Thats one thing I really don't like about it. They're one of the best schools in the nation, they should fricken tighten up their admission standards.</p>
<p>i can only agree with theterminatior.
now i'm starting to believe that there are such things as stupid questions. stupid people ask them.</p>
<p>I understand the differences in academics. I guess the harder thing to compare is the rest of the college experience other than the education...</p>
<p>Well, there is bound to be bad apples when admitting over 9000 students...</p>
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I'm choosing Berkeley over MIT and Harvard. It just depends on what you want, I want to stay in California over cold new england schools, but to each his own.
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<p>Did you even apply to Harvard? If so, why didn't you mention it in the other thread?</p>