<p>Can anyone tell me which one is better for graduate ee?</p>
<p>as an overseas student in China, I am going to apply both two universities in the coming November. I have to take many aspects into consideration like graduate programs, employment after graduation and I may apply for PhD.</p>
<p>In China there are just two large forums on the Internet, and people's opinions are always the same- they values more about the ranking. But by searching in collegeconfidential I find that umass is better than WPI, delaware and Stevens Institute Technology. Is that true?</p>
<p>I’m an EE with more than three decades in semiconductors.</p>
<p>Every institution you listed is fine. I’d say Stevens and WPI are probably at the top of that list, simply because of the employment opportunities and average salaries.</p>
<p>Bias alert: Stevens is also where my son decided to go. </p>
<p>His short list was Cornell, Lehigh, Stevens and RPI. Stevens was the best match and he applied ED1. WPI was on his long list and we spent some time evaluating it. We visited a few times. It is very similar to Stevens, even in respect to jobs and salaries. But my son felt Stevens is in a better location. We did not bother with UMASS or Delaware (too big, no apparent benefits over any others).</p>
<p>I’m scratching my head why you thought UMASS would stick out from that group. Don’t get me wrong, I do not look down on an EE degree from UMASS, but it seems odd that you’d favor it over those others. Can you share your thought process?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help. My father is also an EE for more than 3 decades, though he does not give me helpful advices in selecting graduate school because he knows little English. </p>
<p>I have three seasons that I consider umass.
a) Umass has good reputation on the Internet, and a few comparison have been made in collegeconfidential, and umass is better in graduate programs.
b) Even SIT or WPI focuses more on EE, umass ranks 50+ while SIT ranks 70+ in graduate program.
c) It’s not easy to find a job for EE near New York. Companies prefer CS.</p>
<p>I study in a university in China that has strong competitiveness in EE in China but less in other fields. And I understand the advantage of such universities. They provides better opportunity and better professors. I have a friend in America, and she told me by asking her friends, she gets the conclusion that umass>wpi>sit…</p>
<p>…ugh… rankings again. If you’re going to be in science the first thing you need to do is understand the context of data. Nothing you read measures the actual success of the student after graduation… which is the information you are essentially asking for.</p>
<p>Nor should you use the opinion provided by anyone (including me) on this website. </p>
<p>What you need to do is contact the placement offices of each of your choices and get as much information about placement rates and typical salaries as you can. They all have this data and will gladly share it with you.</p>
<p>And who told you it’s hard to get an EE job in the Northeast megalopolis? Placement stats from a couple of the universities you mentioned are in the mid 90’s percent, with some of the very highest salaries in the USA. I’m in the MetroNY region and there seems to be no shortage of jobs for EEs here. Again, you need to do your own research on this and not believe the rantings of people with too much time on their hands. ;-)</p>
<p>UMass might be better in Chem Eng. at the graduate level, but I don’t see why their EE program would be better than schools like WPI…
It is a good value though since it costs less than private schools?
I believe UMass is more highly respected than UConn.</p>
<p>Thank you BeanTownGirl.
I know WPI is very good in ee in undergraduate, but its graduate programs only ranks 87. Apparently, its undergraduate education is much better than graduate’s.
Cost isn’t important to me…I value more about the level…</p>
<p>So… just know this. The industry doesn’t much care about your school’s ranking. I realize that flies in the face of what you read here, but it’s true.</p>
<p>We look at a lot of things about you. The pedigree of your school is minor. Nobody at your interviews, except you, will care that the school you went to was 80 on some ranking system, rather than 70… or 50.</p>
<p>At the graduate level, you better walk in with some impressive work. If you want to worry about anything, that’s what it should be, not some subjective ranking.</p>
<p>We look for engineers who can immediately contribute… or will be able to contribute in short order. I really don’t care if you came from MIT or Caltech. If you can’t show you have the knowledge and experience to perform on our team, I’m not hiring you. This goes double for graduate students.</p>
<p>It has become a different world over the past decade or so.</p>
Nothing you read measures the actual success of the student after graduation… which is the information you are essentially asking for.</p>