<p>I've been accepted to UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UCSC and Cal Poly SLO for electrical engineering. I'm not considering Santa Cruz because my father is a professor there in Electrical Engineering, and I don't want to have him looking over my shoulder.</p>
<p>I have not visited Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo yet, although I will over the next few weeks. Academically, how do the three stack up? (in electrical engineering specifically, although engineering is good as well)</p>
<p>Also, how nice is UC Santa Barbara's campus compared to UC Davis? Cal Poly SLO's? I'm pretty familiar with Davis (my father worked there before Santa Cruz), so feel free to use local references; I'll probably know them.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>gee, maybe your dad can tell you how the 3 stack up academically.</p>
<p>Unfortunately he's never been to Santa Barbara or Cal Poly SLO, and he's relatively unfamiliar with their academics.</p>
<p>bump i need to know the same thing :)</p>
<p>CPSLO is 6th Nationwide for Engineering and 2nd Nationwide for Computer Engineering so you can probably bank on CPSLO for ranking as best undergrad EE from those choices. I also know that at CPSLO you have more major oriented courses and a lot of hands on experience.</p>
<p>Cal Poly has an awesome campus and some new dorms were built that just opened up this year (or last year). Its a small college town like Davis to put it into perspective.</p>
<p>just realized this is really old sorry ahah</p>