<p>Just like the title.
How good is USC's engineering program compared to all the UC's engineering programs?
How well will it prepare me for grad school?
Does Usc send graduating engineering students to top engineering grad schools such as Stanford, MIT, Caltech, etc.?</p>
<p>I don’t know about all the engineering schools or engineering programs in question, but for undergraduate Computer Science at least, I’d say USC is equivalent to any of the UCs. That impression comes from working with people who have graduated from both USC and the UCs. I will guess it’s the same story for engineering programs other than computer science.</p>
<p>Frankly, for an undergraduate engineering degree, where you went to school is mostly irrelevant. I’ve worked with boneheads from Berkeley, we just got rid of a guy who graduated from the University of Chicago because he was a know-it-all who was disrupting the team, and we have fantastic software engineers from places like San Jose State, San Francisco State, Western Washington, and little private colleges that you probably haven’t heard of.</p>
<p>I’m not a big believer in rankings for undergraduate engineering programs, but for what it’s worth, USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering is rated #11, UC Berkeley’s engineering school is #3, and UCLA’s engineering school is #16.</p>
<p>USC is a top engineering school with a very strong program, as are many of the UC’s. Each school is different and has different majors and strengths, and in my experience at USC, we definitely have a lot of strengths. I feel like I read about professors winning prestigious awards almost weekly, and we have lots of ground breaking research in almost every field of engineering.</p>
<p>As a current senior, I feel very prepared for graduate school, as do my friends - some of whom are moving on to Masters, Ph. D, Medical, Law, or Business programs (if they’re not choosing to go right into industry). I am personally choosing to stay at USC for the progressive degree program since it allows me to get my B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering in just 5 years, but many students do choose to attend graduate school elsewhere and they are well-prepared. USC definitely has and will continue to send students to the schools you mentioned and more. In fact, my adviser routinely forwards information about grad studies and applications, and I’ve been to a few presentations made by other graduate schools (including the UC’s) recruiting Viterbi engineers.</p>
<p>Bumpppppppp</p>