Picking a Place for Civil Engineering

<p>I shall start this post as these sort of posts are usually started: I am a high school senior looking on deciding where I want to go to college. I want very much to major in civil engineering and I have it down to:</p>

<p>-University of Texas at Austin
-Texas A&M University-- College Station
-Texas A&M University-- Kingsville</p>

<p>Help me debate the merits of each? I've tried talking to parents, counselors, etc, but I'm not getting very much feedback at all. Thank you, in advance.</p>

<p>You’ve been accepted to all three right? Always a good #1 criterion.</p>

<p>UT-Austin is the highest ranked. But it really comes down to which school you like the best. If you’re interested in A&M, I would choose College Station over Kingsville. You would get an excellent education at either UT or A&M.</p>

<p>Automatic admission is guaranteed to all three universities because of my class rank, but I won’t really receive notification about whether or not I’m accepted into my major (at any university) for quite some time. Perhaps I am getting ahead of myself and I really won’t get into their engineering schools, but I figured I might as well give this some consideration right now.</p>

<p>Have you visited the choices?</p>

<p>Only UT so far, it’s hard for my parents to schedule time to travel because of work and my younger siblings.</p>

<p>UT and A&M will both have great national alumni networks of CivEs. Not so much Kingsville. Both have good reputations in and out of Texas.</p>

<p>It really comes down to which experience you would prefer and where you think you can excel. Austin and College Station are very different.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, brother got his MSCE from UT and loved it. I know several A&M grads up here around Seattle who all loved their school too, but no CivEs.</p>