<p>I don’t want to spend tooo much money on applying to UC schools, but I want a good safety school.</p>
<p>Can you guys help me rank these three in terms of their engineering curriculum, location and just overall atmosphere?</p>
<p>UC Irvine
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Depends on which type of engineering.....</p>
<p>UCD - top school for environmental/ biological related engineering
UCSB - chem and materials engineering - world reknown
UCI - not sure. I think their EE or Comp E programs are good.</p>
<p>In the few engineering fields it has, UCSB is a very strong school. UCD is an overall great engineering school, and UCI falls below both of them.</p>
<p>If you are from Washington, none of those schools are your safeties, sorry to say.</p>
<p>At close to $45k for OOS, the mid-tier UCs are not worth the money, IMO. U-Dub is a no-brainer.</p>
<p>Oh, haha. I was born in CA and my mother is a resident of CA. So that's why I said that. =P</p>
<p>I'm kinda in-state for both WA and CA.</p>
<p>Feez-I'm not sure where you got that information. UCI's engineering school (41) is ranked higher than UC davis (44). UCI is also the only unvirsity of California to have a separate school of Computer Science.</p>
<p>"...location and just overall atmosphere"</p>
<p>That would be your own preference.</p>
<p>Refer to this link: UC</a> Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara or University of Washington? - Yahoo! Answers</p>