<p>Hello I was wondering of the following schools what would be the best college for either electrical engineering, computer engineering, or getting me into a better grad school for the previously mentioned majors:
UT Austin
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Harvey Mudd
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Franklin W Olin College
CalPoly
Cooper Union
or University of Washington-Seattle</p>
<p>All good programs and all ABET accredited. It is pretty much irrelevant which one you attend for the purposes of graduate school. The most important thing about getting into a graduate program is your academic performance and, in the case of a research - oriented degree, your research experience.</p>
<p>As @xraymancs said, they’re all good. With that said, they’re all different. With the exception of UT, my son considered every one, some much more deeply than others.</p>
<p>You will get a great degree from all of them, but you need to think about what you want your overall college experience to be like. How big or small do you want? Weather? Culture? Activities? Etc…</p>
<p>Olin is tiny. It’s a love it or hate it type of place. You have to visit. Same, but to a lesser degree for Mudd and Cooper? Mudd has the advantage of its association with the consortium. None will offer the stereotypic college experience and for you, that may be what you want.</p>
<p>UT and UW are at the other end, massive sports programs, parties, lots of students. Beware of UW’s admissions policies. You might have to compete for a spot as a sophomore. If you don’t get in, you will have basically wasted your freshman year.</p>
<p>RPI and Cal Poly are sort of in the middle. Poly is bigger, but still smallish at about 17k students. Poly is D1. I believe RPI is D3, except for hockey which is D1. It gets cold as hell in Troy. Cal Poly has a bike path to the beach. Some people want 4 seasons and hate the never changing coastal weather. Some, find SLO heavenly. Poly does have a broader diversity of majors.</p>
<p>My son ended up applying and being admitted to RPI and Poly, and chose Cal Poly.</p>
<p>That’s a great starting list. Good luck.</p>
<p>As a side note, with the exception of Rose, none of them are easy engineering or CS admits. Make sure you have a safety you’d be happy with. Any time admission rates dip below 20%, there’s a randomness that you can fall prey to no matter how strong your record is. I think Rose isn’t too selective for two reasons, location and poor M:F ratio. It’s well respected though.</p>
<p>If you like the size of RPI and Rose Hulman, you can look at the other [url=“<a href=“http://theaitu.org%22%5DAITU%5B/url”>http://theaitu.org”]AITU[/url</a>] schools. I am pretty sure you would be able to get into a number of them.</p>
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Colleges don’t “get you in”. You get yourself in by working hard to get good grades, by getting to know some profs so they write strong recs (and call their friends at the colleges you are most interested in – the PhD world for a given major is a small world), by participating in research and student run projects, etc. </p>
<p>The AITU list is great. did not learn about it until after my kids went off to engineering college, but it would have been helpful a few years earlier. We visited 8 of them with DS . He attends one of them, and DH and I graduated from another. </p>