Hi all,
Does anyone know how well the Viterbi school is in terms of engineering rankings? Especially mechanical engineering?
Also how available are research opportunities at USC.
Thanks!
Bump. Anyone that can help?
Stem,
That’s a very strange rank order list. Davis, Irvine, USD and Santa Clara ranked above Cal Tech? Mudd unranked?
In my opinion, Viterbi offers good education and a lot of opportunity for undergrads in terms of involvement, but isn’t a better engineering school than Stanford or Cal.
OP: The AME department has several tracks, and is solid. Lots of professors doing lots of research. Lab spots guaranteed for students admitted with merit scholarships.
If you like the campus vibe at USC, you’ll like Viterbi well enough.
These are a good place to start. I looked at USC’s CS program as a factor in deciding to go there, although the film school was first and foremost in my mind. USC’s engineering school is top tier, but behind Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Illinois, Purdue, etc.
That’s generally the consistent opinion I hear from employers too.
It is around #27 on the US News Best Undergraduate Engineering Schools where the highest degree is a doctorate list.
That’s disappointing and not in line with my experience in the working world, although, to be fair, this is the difference between undergrad and grad rankings. For undergrad, I wouldn’t necessarily want to take a degree from a large school. Undoubtedly lots of good, smaller engineering schools out there that will offer a better experience.
Almost all of the schools that offer doctorates are pretty large.
Yes, and that’s the point. Size and quality are not the same, which is why some other alums on here are angry about USC growing in size - the concern that it’s diluting the quality of the student experience vis a vis housing, class size, extra-curriculars, etc.
Caltech is a doctoral institution with around 2000 (?) students and a faculty/student ratio of 3 to 1. Berkeley is an equally excellent institution, but most people complain that that school and UCLA are “factories.” No one questions the excellence of either the students or the faculty at those institutions, but people do question the educational experience. That’s the point.