<p>Okay..i m wondering, how good UIUC engineering is..and what's the job prospect for UIUC engineering grads...</p>
<p>i m currently in USC, U Mich, northeastern and UIUC engineering...Northeastern is out of the question... my question is, does UIUC engineering match up with USC or U mich?? How's the career prospect for UIUC engineering grads, particularly in terms of operations management, financial engineering or investment banking?</p>
<p>I got accepted as industrial engineering major.</p>
<p>please dont be shy</p>
<p>U.S News ranked the undergraduate program fourth in the nation. MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley were the only ones ranked ahead of it.</p>
<p>It really just depends on how much you believe rankings. I'm not an engineering student, but UIUC is absolutely known for its program. Between the four you mentioned and from what I've been told by friends in the program, UIUC kicks the pants off all of them. I hear nothing but wonderful things about it. Here's more rankings if you want them:</p>
<p>( <a href="http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/about/rankings.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/about/rankings.php</a> )</p>
<p>are you an Illinois resident? Michigan resident? have you visited all these schools? find a place you wanna be for 4 or 5 years...</p>
<p>neither.... i visited all USC, mich and IL, i like them equally..that's why i m going to decide based on other factors... assuming i dont get into my top choices late march early april</p>
<p>bumpppppppppppppp</p>
<p>good enough for my brother to get a job with a starting salary of $54,000 and a $4000 signing bonus. good enough for my sister to get a job at lockheed martin and be paid close to what my mom makes.</p>
<p>If you do well, apply and are accepted to the T&M (Technology and Management) program, you can get all kinds of top jobs.</p>
<p>The one guy taken by GS Chicago for an internship this semester is an IE T&M. And a few of the guys who made it to the BofA final round were IE T&Ms. I'm not sure about JPM or Merrill; a few engineers might have landed internships with them.</p>
<p>two of my buddies got into the T&M program. both have had internships with John Deer for this coming summer secured since like...thanksgiving break. Last year one of them worked for motorola.</p>
<p>they're both smart as hell though.</p>
<p>Here is a prospective from a UIUC alum.</p>
<p>I graduated from UIUC with a Computer Engineering degree is 2003. Jobs were scarce at graduation, with the dotCom bust, but I managed to get a job a defense company. I was somewhat dissapointed with the university since I got my job through my own contacts. I was unable to get a job using the campus recruiting.</p>
<p>Once you have a job though, one thing I have learned is that nobody cares about what school you came from. Less than a year after I started working, I got promoted and had got a subtantial raise. </p>
<p>I really didn't find my defense job challenged so I started looking for jobs in the financial sector. This is when I was most thankful for my UIUC degree. The school is very well known in the software industry, and I really believe my degree alone got me into a lot of interviews. I was able to get a job in the financial sector. Again, now that I have a job, the degree doesn't really do anything for me.</p>
<p>The biggest disadvantage of UIUC is that nobody outside the industry really knows that it's a top rated school. Don't expect people at dinner parties to be impressed with your degree. The average person is not going to know that you have a first-class engineering degree. Most people aren't going to know that UIUC's engineering program blows the pants off any ivy leage school's.</p>
<p>UIUC is appreciably better or worse than Cornell for engineering, Megatron</p>
<p>UIUC would be great, if you choose to embrace it!</p>
<p>If you run into someone who looks down on you for having a degree from UIUC in engineering (or quite a few other things) then you probably shouldn’t be having dinner parties with that person anyway. You don’t go to school for how you look at a dinner party, and if you do, you are in it for the wrong reasons. To most people who matter, UIUC is equal to or better in engineering than all of the schools you listed, and most others.</p>
<p>That said, I would say that UIUC vs. UMich is pretty much a wash, so it should come down to other things there. Price, location, quality of your specific program, etc.</p>
<p>The OP already attends Michigan. Why bring up the old post?</p>
<p>It’s ranked #4. What more do you want?</p>
<p>Haha, I didn’t look at dates, I just read the newest post that was today. I hate when that happens. Blame keryar.</p>