<p>hey im a high school senior. I wanted to know what u guys would do if faced with the abovementioned choice. My course at Imperial college is civil & environmental engineering while at UT it is civil engineering. Cant decide where to go??</p>
<p>imperial college ! i duno... but it is more well known</p>
<p>Well, where would you like to work, ultimately?</p>
<p>If you want to work in the United States, it would behoove you to go through a degree program there. A civil engineering education is heavily dependent upon steel and concrete design codes, and in the US, you'd be working with US design codes, as opposed to over in Britain where you'd be working with the European design codes. That's not to say that it would be impossible to go from one to the other, it's just that you'd be putting yourself at a major disadvantage by not learning the code of the region you're planning on starting your professional career in.</p>
<p>well , i have yet to decide on that too ie working in USA or UK. i read this article on imperials website which said that the civil engineering demand would rise coz of the 2012 olympic games etc.. but i would like to work in my home country or somewhere like Dubai etc where the sheiks are going crazy approving every other mega building daily</p>
<p>They are both excellent. Which setting suits you better?</p>
<p>I think that your only consideration should be where you wanna work after college. Imperial is very good esp for engineering and so is UTA with Imperial having the edge I feel.</p>
<p>I have no idea about job market for engineering graduates in the US, but what I know for sure is that in the EU the need of engineers is growing every year, because as old engineers retire, there is not enough young dudes to replace them. Guess why? Because nowadays the brightest students go to business management, economics, law etc. So I think that European engineering degree is really in a long run gonna make you lots of Euros.</p>
<p>here the perception is that the US educational experience is one really looking forward to because the of broad education, extra cirricular opportunities etc while the UK unis are percieved to be too academics oriented.</p>
<p>Yasirhusain, UTA is definitely a more balanced university than Imperial. Your academic schedule will be more flexible and the campus will be more lively and "collegiate".</p>