<p>I'm down to two choices now - UCSD and CMU. Both appeal to me equally right now, and I'm having trouble deciding. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>[i'm crossposting in cmu, uc-general, and ucsd forums to try and get as many views as possible:)]</p>
<p>what is uscd? well.. depends what you want to major in</p>
<p>oops...uc san diego, want to major in mechanical engineering</p>
<p>i would say CMU just cause its sOO good at engineering. I dunno much about ucsd, but I would say if your from maryland.. then you're pretty far away.. and CMU is like known for engineering and stuff
thats just my opinion.</p>
<p>I don't see how there could be any doubt: CMU is the superior engineering school by far.</p>
<p>UCSD has highly ranked biomed eng.; All other engineering, CMU.</p>
<p>check out the usnews and world report for free on a Japanese web site
I wish it rated other subjects besides engineering schools.</p>
<p>check out the usnews and world report for free on a Japanese web site
This will really have you confused, just when you thought you knew which school was better.</p>
<p>thanks so far to everybody for your input. bucca, much thanks for the link - from there, it looks like cmu and ucsd are seperated by one rank in general and two ranks in mechanical, with cmu on top for both.</p>
<p>any other views?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I am just a junior. I've been going to school around UCSD for the past 5 years. UCSD I would say has a very strong engineering program, something like 13th in the nation. Their biomedical engineering program is among the nation's best and probably the best for public schools. CMU from my understanding has an outstanding, electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer systems management, and computer science program, which shows in their success at robocups and such. CMU doesn't have a renown MAE program; I would actually put UCSD's MAE program over CMU (a little biased). UCSD's tuition would be about 10K less than CMU even if you are out of state. CMU is ranked on top of UCSD, however, CMU just seems like a very big technology based school. UCSD addresses the "hard" engineering majors more, especially MAE and structural sciences.</p>
<p>One thing to think about with UCSD is whether you will really, in reality, be able to finish in four years. When we visited last year we were told by tour guides and students that 5-6 years was the norm for a bachelors degree because the school is flooded with students, and resources are tight due to budget issues in California.</p>