<p>All three are excellent schools, but only one of those schools is located in the most beautiful place in America. Guess which ;)</p>
<p>Coming from a UCSD incoming freshman, of course, haha.</p>
<p>I have no argument that UCSD is the most beautiful of those 3 locations (at least as far as the surroundings go). I would probably argue against it being the most beautiful place in the country overall, though, hehe.</p>
<p>There are clear reasons why some schools are in top 10 catagory. When comparing schools with 1 to 2 ranking difference, I can’t say for sure which school is better than the others clearly, however when the rank difference is 7, there are clear reasons as to why other school is ranked higher. Reasons possibly include research, funding, faculty, quality of education and etc. </p>
<p>All the ground breaking discovery and research is done by graduate students / postdoc and the professors. It’s better to measure the engineer school by graduate school ranking than undergraduate program ranking. </p>
<p>Purdue is great engineer school but I wouldn’t say it’s par with UIUC.</p>
<p>Except for Undergrad the difference is 4, not 7. UIUC is 5, Purdue is 9. Read a book.</p>
<p>Additionally, if you are basing your opinion on the rankings alone, why aren’t you ragging on UCSD?</p>
<p>This thread is a perfect example of why CC is such a blessing and a curse. CSMajor5 spouts ridiculous drivel risking many of the less experienced CC readers being misled. Although I’m sure most people on this board can recognize informed opinion as opposed to clueless BS, some might not. It’s nice to see people being diligent in calling posters to support their positions from time to time.</p>
<p>It’s always easier to land a job locally for the following reasons: mostly all the major companies will try to pick the best out of the best Universities. But there is a lot of small companies out there without the funds or the will to go to out and scout Colleges out of their state. So by staying locally your chances of landing a job are greater. However I see that you are comparing 2 different fields of engineering. EE goes hand in hand with Comp Eng and not ME. If you really like ME you will probably hate EE. Chosing a secondary option just to stay close will only frustrate you at the end if you really wanted to study ME.</p>
<p>Acknowledgment only lends to credibility.</p>
<p>I was really behind a bit of all this but somehow the arguments here are quite remarkable
By location and job i quite think that being close to some place make it easier to take jobs especially when it comes to part time job or summer job or internship and so on,right? it’s because I would be familiar with the place and the cost of transportation would be less. </p>
<p>that is to compare between La Jolla in CA and Urbana in Illinois. I search the craiglist and engineering jobs are much more in La Jolla area than Illinois. besides California is still california right? But I know for job after graduate, it may not be limited to certain places.</p>
<p>The interest between ME or EE? I’m still undecided actually. I wanted to test the water first.haha</p>
<p>I know literally TONS of people that I went to school with at UIUC who had internships and summer jobs in California, Seattle and various other “far away” locations. Like I said, at a nationally renowned engineering program, companies from across the country recruit for both full time and summer jobs. I know plenty of people who worked for Northrop, Boeing, Lockheed, Intel, Microsoft, NASA and various other companies across the country just as interns over the summers.</p>