<p>Which one do u think It better for electrical/computer engineering major? Please give some ideas and ranking</p>
<p>Do u know the rate of getting a job of engineering students from those school?</p>
<p>Based on your other thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/721291-how-get-engineering-internship-2-7-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/721291-how-get-engineering-internship-2-7-gpa.html</a> I don’t think it really matters which school is better at this point. With a 2.7 GPA you might find that it could be hard to transfer to another school.</p>
<p>Personally I think that Cal Poly SLO is better for engineering overall, it is ranked among the top 20 engineering schools in the US according to US News</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO is the best engineering school out of those. UCSB is probably second. And I think Cal Poly Pomona, SJSU, and Irvine are all probably tied for 3rd.</p>
<p>According to US NEWS:</p>
<p>Cal Poly-SLO
Cal Poly Pomona
UCSB
UCI
SJSU</p>
<p>Another consideration if you can’t get into Cal Poly SLO: </p>
<p>UCSB = beach. Cal Poly Pomona = well…Pomona :)</p>
<p>What? Cal Poly Pomona is not only… Pomona!. The school is also surrounded by affluent areas like Phillips Ranch, Diamond Bar, Chino Hills, and Walnut. It has beautiful weather year-round and, according to College *******, has a higher safety & security rating than Cal Poly-SLO. Actually, Cal Poly Pomona is 4 miles away from downtown Pomona… almost the same distance (4.5 mi) than the Claremont Colleges! All the geographical advantages of the Claremont Colleges (short drive to the mountains, to the beach and to downtown Los Angeles) apply to Cal Poly Pomona. Our professors are awesome too! I’m currently taking partial differential equations with a professor who has worked at JPL and teaches the exact same class at Caltech. For this year’s midterm, he gave the same quiz to both classes and the average for the Caltech midterm: 88%, Cal Poly Pomona: 81%! Case in point, look at this gentleman’s curriculum vitae:</p>
<p>[Tamer</a> M. El Sayed - CV](<a href=“http://www.aero.caltech.edu/~tamer/tamerCV_web.html]Tamer”>http://www.aero.caltech.edu/~tamer/tamerCV_web.html)</p>
<p>His Caltech M.S. and Ph.D GPA average 3.90
His Cal Poly Pomona B.S. GPA average 3.92</p>
<p>There’s a great deal of ignorant misconceptions about CPP that need to be addressed.</p>
<p>What? Why did the word P.r.o.w.l.e.r. got censored-out? As in College P.r.o.w.l.e.r. the website, anyways, here’s the link to Cal Poly Pomona’s Safety & Security report.</p>
<p>http://**************.com/cal-poly-pomona/safety–and–security/</p>
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It’s super hot and smells like cows in the summer… :p</p>
<p>UCSB is a better and more prestigious school for electrical engineering. Cal Poly is more applied and you will get much more hands on experience there. UCSB is emphasizes theory and reasoning. Honestly, I work with Cal Poly EE graduates, and I can tell you from my experience that they don’t learn nearly as much about circuit theory/signals as we do at UCSB. Then again, that is coming from someone from UCSB so take it for what it is. You’ll learn a lot more if you go to UCSB, but you will be better positioned to be hired into a big company if you go to Cal Poly SLO. Don’t go to Cal Poly Pomona, that’s not even comparable.</p>
<p>Cal Poly Pomona is 11th in engineering for schools without a Phd and 10th for electrical engineering, 7th for civil, and 8th for mechanical. I don’t think the negative comments about Pomona are warranted. If one is going for a Bachelors or Masters, that would be better than all the schools mentioned except SLO.</p>
<p>No petrarch you’re reading those rankings wrong. When they rank schools who offer phd’s, they aren’t ranking the phd program, they’re ranking the undergraduate programs of the schools who offer phd’s. So yeah, cpp would be below slo, ucsb and probably uci.</p>
<p>@norris212,</p>
<p>I am not reading those rankings wrong. I realize they are not rating their phd programs. With CPP ranked 11 for programs without a Phd, it’s hard to argue that UCI and UCSB engineering programs, which are ranked in the high 30s for programs with Phds , would be that much better than CPP for undergraduate as you’re assuming. Knocking Pomona in this regard is totally baseless.</p>
<p>Hard to argue that UCSB and UCI are better than CPP? I think you would have a much harder time arguing that CPP is better. You say knocking CPP is baseless, but knock SB and Irvine at the same time. Being number 11 on a list where there are only a handful of decent schools is not that impressive. You might be able to make that case against UCI because it ranks in the mid 40’s and is slightly less selective than other UC’s. But UCSB is ranked in the low 30’s, tied with Davis, and is much harder to get in to than CPP. I think the UC reputation holds more weight than the CPP reputation. It seems like CPP always gets overshadowed by SLO even though it seems like they do have a decent program. I’m not trying to trash CPP, it’s a decent school, but saying that it’s better than some of the better UC’s is a stretch.</p>
<p>As PurdueEE stated originally, you have to be realistic and figure that you aren’t going to get into UCSB, UCI, and Cal Poly SLO anyway with a 2.7 GPA, so the debate about which school is best is somewhat of a moot point for addressing your particular situation. I think if you can get into CPP, you should be very happy. San Jose State may also be a good fit. The intern jobs in the Silicon Valley are a nice plus for attending school up in San Jose.</p>
<p>This is an old thread… It’s kind of just turned in to UCSB and UCI vs CPP haha</p>