<p>UC Berkeley is #1 for CS, along with MIT and Stanford. Go with UC Berkeley. If you do well there, you will be making 100K with just BSCS.</p>
<p>My guess is not because you are already pay OOS fee. The tuition hike is for in-state.</p>
<p>Columbia_Student, if I recall, OOS students pay the in-state fees and, added on top, the OOS tuition. As such, they will also feel the $3,000 increase, if it does indeed occur.</p>
<p>^You maybe right. I was only guessing. If that is the case that's a lot of money for OOS.</p>
<p>As an international student, where do you expect to work after you finish college? (Hint, don't count on finding a job in the US because there is no telling what the immigration situation is going to be like when you finish.) Will a degree from one school be more marketable in that location than the degree from another? If you empty your parents' piggy bank for your undergraduate degree, how will you pay for a graduate degree?</p>
<p>International students are not eligible for loans unless they find a cosigner who is a U.S. resident or citizen. Otherwise, international students could just go back to their home country and never have to pay.</p>
<p>In any case, your parents would have pay at least $120,000 anyway, and Berkeley would give you much better job opportunities than VT. If you're feeling guilty about the cost, you can always offer to pay your parents back after you graduate.</p>
<p>I do not know about Cal but UCLA OOS will be 28k I was told</p>
<p>In your situation, you have to spend a zillion amount of money for all these schools anyway. So, go to the one you like the best. I agree that UCB may be the best on your option.</p>
<p>Sigh. $100,000 vs $200,000. Arrgh!</p>
<p>The difference between $200,000 and $100,000 is not chump change. What will your parents expect you to do for them if they spend this kind of money on you? Think about that one for a second.</p>
<p>But then, I always was rather tight-fisted myself. What exactly is WRONG with the cheap school(s)? What do the graduates of those "cheap school(s)" end up doing professionally? Your undergraduate education may help you get your first job, but after that your work history will become increasingly important.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>On the one hand, your parents saved that money for this very purpose. They expect it to be spent this way, so you should not feel guilty. I say this as a parent who is socking away money for my son's education. </p>
<p>One the other hand, I've been the kid whose parents sacrificed a lot to send her to school....and it really influenced some of my choices. I was reluctant to do activities that would require me to ask them for more money (i.e. interesting trips on break, taking an unpaid internship over the summer). I ended up missing out on some neat opportunities. </p>
<p>In your shoes, I'd probably lean towards the cheaper option. I didn't think these schools were terribly far apart, quality and prestige-wise, when it comes to the engineering fields. I mean, given the price. As Alexandre says, is Cal really worth $70,000 more than the others?</p>
<p>What would you do with the 70k if you went to Va Tech?</p>
<p>Probably save it for Grad School or something ...</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply, hoedown</p>
<p>My roommate at UNC Chapel Hill is an international student for china and, while I'm not sure about California's policies, I am pretty sure that public schools only give financial aid to US citizens. I know that UVA and Cal are great schools, but V-Tech is on a different tier.</p>
<p>I don't want to make you feel bad, but I would definitely feel guilty if someone else was spending 200K on my college education.</p>
<p>^Tell me about it!</p>