<p>I've seen conflicting rankings, but I know Cornell is really well ranked in engineering. What do you all think about the two?</p>
<p>Cornell is better.</p>
<p>Short and sweet.</p>
<p>Cornell.</p>
<p>The one thing that I think is much more important is how you fit in at the school. If you think you'd fit in better at USC, then go to USC, if you think you'll fit in at Cornell, than go to Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell. </p>
<p>liek is right about the social scene, but at over 13,000 undergrads and 700 student organizations and clubs, it'd be near impossible not to find something that interests you other than academics at Cornell.</p>
<p>That also sounds really engaging, I didn't know there were that many.</p>
<p>Is USC engineering really that much worse than Cornell's?</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering is light-years ahead of USC Engineering. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>In terms of research, USC and Cornell are about equal, but in terms of Engineering education, Cornell is definitely better. I would recommend Cornell over USC.</p>
<p>flopsy, based on your location, of course you'd say that :)</p>
<p>i can't speak on behalf of Cornell. obviously, Cornell is one of the top schools in the nation.
however, USC just received some HUGE donations for the engineering program. we just built a new building for electrical engineering, finishing one for bio eng., and about to build another one for (i believe) chem.
also, NASA has recently donated some money to SC. Overall, our engineering program is moving in a very good direction. Also, it's on a very strict curve, so getting an A is tough but those who do are actually really bright students.</p>
<p>ilya
<a href="http://www.collegecircles.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegecircles.com</a></p>
<p>bill gates just donated $25,000,000 to Cornell for a new C.S. building (that will cost a total of over $50,000,000 to build) :)</p>
<p>...guess the name of the building.</p>
<p>Wow, I always learn so much from these threads.</p>
<p>According to this website, <a href="http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/announcements/2005/2005_04_01_ranking.htm%5B/url%5D">http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/announcements/2005/2005_04_01_ranking.htm</a>, USC would be better...</p>
<p>"Here are the top 10 engineering graduate programs as measured by U.S. News & World Report: </p>
<pre><code>1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. UC-Berkeley
4. Georgia Tech
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
6. University of Michigan
7. University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
8. Caltech
9. Carnegie Mellon
</code></pre>
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<li>Purdue"</li>
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<p>that ranking is for graduate school.</p>
<p>completely different</p>
<p>i would like to think that if a school has a highly ranked graduate program, then their undergraduate wouldn't be too bad.</p>
<p>There is something very fishy about USNWR engineering rankings...</p>
<p>Cornell's Peer Assessment Score is 4.3/5 and its Recruiter Assessment Score is 4.2/5.</p>
<p>For USC: Peer score is 3.7, Recruiter score is 3.7.</p>
<p>Acceptance Rate at Cornell: 25%, at USC: 46%</p>
<p>Average Math GRE at Cornell: 762, at USC 753</p>
<p>The only metric that USC wins is research $$ per faculty memeber...
at Cornell: $561,000; at USC: $922,000</p>
<p>In fact USC is #1 in this category, beating even MIT, Stanford & Berkeley.</p>
<p>By the "magic" of USNWR trusty formula, USC comes out #7 overall... Cornell comes out #12 overall...</p>
<p>I think Cornell has a better respected program overall... but that said, USC is very high up there too... if I had to choose, I would consider financial as well as quality of life/environment...</p>
<p>Another thing that is fishy is USC has no department in the top-10. So it's kinda strange when you have no department in the top-10 but "overall" it's top-10. :)</p>