<p>I am an international candidate, so I have to pay almost the same fee everywhere. I am going to do Aeronautical Engineering. I want to choose the university which is good in engineering but also prestigious.</p>
<p>I have been accepted to:
1) UCLA
2) Georgia Tech
3) University of Michigan
4) Imperial College London
5) University of Toronto</p>
<p>Kindly help me choose. Presently I am inclined towards UCLA, but I am really confused.</p>
<p>Kindly help!</p>
<p>Anyone???</p>
<p>I was going to recommend Michigan for both international renown and excellent engineering program except that I then vaguely recalled that UCLA might be particularly strong for your major…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that UCLA is the most prestigious of the list.</p>
<p>Prestige isn’t everything though 
Well, maybe for engineering it is. Have you visited or have an idea of any of the campuses? (very important)</p>
<p>no I haven’t visited the campus of any of the university. Otherwise I like the weather at UCLA. But still, is Imperial a great school or UCLA is better?</p>
<p>i need more replies</p>
<p>Georgia Tech and Michigan are significantly better than the rest given the OP’s academic interests. Imperial is also excellent, but it does not have the resources that top US Engineering programs such as GT and Michigan have. </p>
<p>UCLA (#19 in Engineering overall and #17 in Aerospace Engineering) is not quite as strong as GT (#5 in Engineering overall and #2 in Aerospace Engineering) and Michigan (#7 in Engineering overall and #3 in Aerospace Engineering).</p>
<p>In terms of prestige, Imperial, Michigan and UCLA are roughly equal…let us leave it at that.</p>
<p>I would recommend Michigan over the others because it is as well rounded as UCLA academically (Imperial will not let you change majors and along with GT, is primarily strong in Engineering and the Sciences), and like UCLA, it has a fun and pleasant campus environment. Overall, Michigan is your best bet.</p>
<p>Imperial, Michigan and GTech are the best of the list for your Major…
I would put these three in the following order</p>
<p>Imperial > Michigan > Georgia Tech</p>
<p>Imperial is the most prestigious of the three, and has a really good Aeronautical Engineering department… do look into which University has appropriate facilities for your major, like which Uni has the wind tunnel et cetera… If you look at the weather then Georgia Tech is the top one followed by Imperial and Michign being the least pleasant (extremely cold!) …</p>
<p>I would say pick Imperial !
I’ll most probably be joining Imperial for Mechanical Engineering this October and have turned down Georgia Tech, UIUC, Michigan, and others… however, HKUST, as of now, seems equally good, to me… so for me its between Imperial and HKUST…</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply</p>
<p>Anymore views?</p>
<p>Lots of aerospace/defense industry in Southern California. Make sure the other spots will have places that can hire you. Prestige is fleeting. Go with where you feel “this is it” if not, really do your research (and not just on boards like this). It’s filled with people who are going to use rankings to justify things.</p>
<p>ok…</p>
<p>I second Deuces’ opinion! Go with where “you” feel like is the place to be! If not then as I suggested to someone else before make a ranking chart of your own, with different criteria being different columns and Uni as the rows and mark each University on a scale of 1-5… Consider things like cost, campus, future, people, proximity from home et cetera!
At the end of the day you wanna smile and reply with pride when people ask you :“What University are you studying at ?” !!
And God Forbid, if you are still unsure at the end of all of this, try picking a University that would keep other options open, like transferring from a State Uni to a Private one is more diff than the vice versa scenario … And some Uni demand a higher GPA to allow you to transfer than the others…</p>
<p>Hope this Helps!</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>I’d say Imperial…its the best-ranked for eng out of the others. But I think even UCLA’s just as good…if you like going to US.</p>
<p>Although I have to say that all the unis you’ve mentioned are really expensive for internationals. But if you’ve got no problem with that…then I guess I would go for Imperial or UCLA.</p>
<p>Not really Lord. Michigan and GT are ranked just as high as Imperial, and rightly so. Imperial is strapped for cash and has no little to support hundreds of top faculty, state of the art labs and hundreds of millions of dollars of research spending as top US universities do.</p>
<p>If its for engineering, then definitely choose Georgia Tech. It’s probably cheaper than the other choices, and their engineering program is a lot more prestigious. Many people in my family have gone there, and no one regrets it. And even overall, the school is fairly prestigious (although not as much as UCLA and Mich)</p>
<p>I am a first year Physics student at Imperial. I have to say the course here is very demanding (at least in the first year, because of having to adjust yourself to uni life). And in even later years the difficulty of the course remains the same. By the way, Imperial is the 3rd best uni in Europe. I dunno about the American uni’s.</p>