college ranking of EE

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<p>anyone knows the ranking of EE.
which schools have good EE program?<br>
could someone give a list ?</p>

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<p>My school(Illinois) has one of the best EE program in the nation. It is currently ranked as #4 according to US News & World Report. Its a department with great contributions, such as the first transistor or LED.</p>

<p>Other schools that come to mind that are probably better than Illinois are UC Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, and Stanford.</p>

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<p>From my experience the reputation of a certain school's engineering department has little or no bearing on the student's learning in the undergraduate level. What I am trying to say is that it doesn't really affect YOU as an undergraduate EE student that your department was involved in the discovery of the "first transistor or LED." More or less you will have to self-study and your success depends more on you than your school's faculty etc. (read: criteria used to determine rankings.) I say go to your state school for and look at rankings in the graduate level.</p>

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From my experience the reputation of a certain school's engineering department has little or no bearing on the student's learning in the undergraduate level.

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<p>Does it really have no bearing on student's learning in the undergraduate level? Department with better rankings have better faculty, and better research opportunities. Does that not correlate with better learning? Engineering schools that are ranked better also provides better alumni network, and job opportunities, which is important in the case you decide not to goto grad school.</p>

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<p>According to US News & WR, the latest undergraduate rankings for Electrical and Computer Engineering are:</p>

<p>Computer Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
2 Stanford University (CA)
4 University of California–Berkeley *
5 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
6 Georgia Institute of Technology *
7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
8 Cornell University (NY)
8 University of Texas–Austin *
10 California Institute of Technology
11 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
12 University of Washington *
13 Princeton University (NJ)
14 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
15 Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
16 Northwestern University (IL)
16 Rice University (TX)
18 Univ. of California–San Diego *
18 Univ. of Southern California
20 Univ. of Maryland–College Park *</p>

<p>Electrical / Electronic / Communications
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 University of California–Berkeley *
3 Stanford University (CA)
4 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
5 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
6 Georgia Institute of Technology *
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Cornell University (NY)
9 University of Texas–Austin *
10 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
11 Princeton University (NJ)
12 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
13 Northwestern University (IL)
14 Univ. of California–San Diego *
15 Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
15 Univ. of Southern California
17 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
17 University of Washington *
17 Virginia Tech *
20 Columbia University (NY)
20 Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
20 Univ. of California–Santa Barbara *
23 Johns Hopkins University (MD)</p>

<p>PS: Please note that several schools (e.g. Carnegie Mellon) do not offer EE and CE as separate majors, offering instead just one single integrated ECE major. For those schools, separate rankings like above don't make much sense.</p>

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Does it really have no bearing on student's learning in the undergraduate level? Department with better rankings have better faculty, and better research opportunities. Does that not correlate with better learning? Engineering schools that are ranked better also provides better alumni network, and job opportunities, which is important in the case you decide not to goto grad school.

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<p>I don't want to put words in Citan's mouth, but I believe his point is that high departmental ranking is not highly correlated with good * teaching*, although it is highly correlated with the other factors you mentioned (which could be indirectly said to improve the student experience). </p>

<p>Let's face it. Many (probably most) of the most prominent engineering professors are just not good teachers. They're good researchers, but not necessarily good teachers. Research and teaching are disparate skills. I myself have taken numerous courses by famous engineering profs whose teaching skills are mediocre at best. I frankly learned more by just sitting in my room reading the book than I did by actually going to class. I think most engineers can relate.</p>

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<p>I agree 100% with Citan. It really doesn't matter where you get your BS unless you go to top 10. After your 1st job, no one really cares what school you went for your BS.</p>