<p>Any input in regards to engineering?</p>
<p>Rankings-wise by individual engineering departments, it's [ol][<em>]UCLA[</em>]USC[<em>]Rice[/ol]
Rankings-wise by overall engineering, it's [ol][]USC[</em>]UCLA[]Rice[/ol]</p>
<p>Rice may have its advantages, even though it is ranked lower. it's a much different atmosphere, for instance, which some might prefer. The program might go with some people better, maybe a merit scholarship that one didn't get from UCLA or USC. <em>shrug</em> </p>
<p>Besides "1,2,3," how do they rank overall relative to other schools?</p>
<p>True. Rice has the advantage of always having small engineering lectures, even lower-division ones. You'll never have a class of over ~20 people, unlike UCLA/USC where you don't get lectures that small until you hit your upper-division courses. Besides "1, 2, 3", the three schools are clustered with one another in the broad scope of all engineering schools (in the top 10-20)... but that doesn't help the original poster very much, does it? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>perhaps not, but it keeps things in perspective for me, and after all, flopsy, doesn't the world revolve around me (or at least my online personality on this site)?</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>