<p>I don't know that figure, but I think Stanford and MIT are comparable schools, so you can infer the salary from their salaries.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation05.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/surveys/0405/engineering.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CDC/surveys/0405/engineering.html</a></p>
<p>joemama, MIT is the best as far as engineering is concerned undergrad or grad.. But if you go by THES ranking it is
1. MIT
2. Berkeley
3. Stanford
4. Caltech</p>
<p>Best overall in every department? Perhaps. Especially if you're talking about grad, deparment specific is what matters. You say MIT is best in every field?</p>
<p>Okay, so I go to Michigan Technological University (aka Michigan Tech). I'm only a freshman this year, but I know I that once I graduate I will definetly want to go on to get my master's in Civil Engineering. I've always really wanted to go to Berkeley, but now I think I'm leaning more towards Caltech. First of all, would I even stand a chance of getting accepted to schools like those? And second, is it really beneficial to get a masters in an area like Civil Engineering?</p>
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<p>One of the profs at my school went from Michigan Tech to Stanford, so it can be done.</p>
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<p>I know a guy who went to Long Beach State for undergrad ChemE, and then got his PhD in ChemE from Berkeley. Not just a master's degree, but a PhD. </p>
<p>As far as master's degrees goes, let me tell you about some of the schools of people I know that got their engineering master's at MIT. They include New Mexico State University, University of Vermont, University of Oregon, SUNY-Binghamton, SUNY-Buffalo (University at Buffalo), Illinois Institute of Technology, and Kettering University(a LOT of Kettering people). And that's just who I can think of off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Now, of course it is true that the great bulk of graduate students from MIT came from the usual undergrad suspects of Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT (especially MIT). But there definitely are people who came from lower-ranked schools.</p>
<p>Besides, I would point out that it's frankly not that hard, relatively speaking, to get into a master's degree program at these schools. In fact, I would venture to say that, for those programs that offer terminal master's, it's probably easier to get into a master's degree program at one of these schools than it is to get in as an undergrad. </p>
<p>Stanford in particular seems to be a school in which it seems to be notably easier to get into a master's degree program than into the undergraduate program. For example, as long as you have good grades, good GRE scores, and (most importantly) good research experience, you will probably get into a Stanford MS engineering program. Contrast that with undergrad admissions where you can get cracker-jack high school grades, test scores, and extracurriculars and STILL not get into Stanford.</p>
<p>Getting back to the topic:</p>
<p>Undergrad EE</p>
<ol>
<li> MIT</li>
<li> Stanford/Berkeley</li>
<li> Caltech</li>
</ol>
<p>Grad EE: It really depends on your specialty in EE ( for example, System Level EE like VLSI, or generic Control Theory, etc etc,) the following is the general consensus among Uber-Elites</p>
<ol>
<li> MIT/Berkeley</li>
<li> Stanford/Caltech</li>
</ol>
<p>This is an interesting thread in that most are at least saying they are all good. But how about this (and I am addressing many of you who go or have gone to these top places? So you get into Caltech,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley,CMU,UIUC,Michigan. Further you are offered full rides to the three below the top four but at the top four you get no aid and are out of state at Berkeley too. Finally you are leaning toward going to grad school but might have an interest in working after the undergrad and might want to be considered for west coast or east coast jobs. With all that would you take the money or still go to one of the top four? If you are good would any of these be just as good? Appreciate some ideas here.</p>
<p>Full ride to CMU, duh. UIUC and U Michigan are below Berkeley, and I'd say that CMU is arguably equivalent to Berkeley, which is comparable to Stanford, MIT, and Caltech as well. Honestly, I don't think that the quality of the education differs much - rather, it's the quality of the students; you're bound to find more hardcore people at Caltech than at UIUC, and that might either motivate or discourage you. On average, Caltech has better students than Berkeley does, but I'd say that Berkeley's top are the most impressive of all the schools.</p>
<p>For undergrad: None. I don't like any of those schools.</p>
<p>For Masters: MIT> Stanford> Caltech > Berkeley</p>
<p>For PhD/post-doc: Caltech > Stanford = MIT = Berkeley</p>
<p>so if i assign a linear metric to each... the relative ranking would be FOR GRAD ONLY:
Caltech(6) = MIT(6) > Stanford(5) > Berkeley(3)</p>
<p>or
MIT(7) > Caltech(6) = Stanford(6) > Berkeley(4)</p>
<p>or
Caltech(6) > MIT(5) > Stanford(4) > Berkeley(2)</p>
<p>which can be averaged to:
Caltech(6) = MIT(6) > Stanford(5) > Berkeley(3)</p>
<p>RocketDA: Of course the fact you go to Mudd and think it is great does not answer the question posed regarding the choices given. Many people think their school is the best and this is as it should be.</p>
<p>They are all about the same in term of grad for EE
for undergrad, I think caltech & MIT will better prepare you for grad schools because of their intense math & science in engineering programs. </p>
<p>You get more choices, like sports at berkeley and stanford.</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
</ol>
<p>"RocketDA: Of course the fact you go to Mudd and think it is great does not answer the question posed regarding the choices given. Many people think their school is the best and this is as it should be."</p>
<p>Excuse Me?????! Did I say anything about Mudd?! No, I did not. You can shut your oldold mouth and stop tying to turn this into something that it isn't. Furthermore, you're wrong. I did rank but I chose to exclude undergraduate programs because I felt like it.</p>
<p>The thread is: "Stanford vs Berkeley vs CalTech vs MIT for Engineering"</p>
<p>I answered the OP exactly, minus undergraduate ranking. I think undergraduates should receive a different type of education than grads and they need a different environment to thrive. If you don't like my opinions, deal with it. I think either an apology is due or you are an "anti-rocketDA" troll.</p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>^^ lol! That was funny. :)</p>
<p>Yea, that was an uncalled for attack on RocketDA.</p>
<p>How does GT compare among the aforemetioned schools (MIT, CalTech, Berkely, Stanford, CMU...)? Does its name carry weight on Wall Street and top tech businesses?</p>
<p>Why would we care about Wall Street in a thread about engineering?</p>
<p>And no, GT does not carry the same name as MIT, Caltech, BerkelEy, and Stanford for undergraduate. For grad school it is almost the same level as those four schools. MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, and Stanford are probably in the first tier and GT at the top of the second tier.</p>
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<p>Oh, I don't know, perhaps because a lot of engineering students seem to care a great deal about Wall Street? I know that at MIT and Stanford, a significant percentage of engineering students will never work a day in their lives as engineers, but will instead run off to Ibanking. Others would like to do so, but don't get an offer.</p>