<p>i'm at a lost as to where to go and i just noticed how urgent i need to get this together. i'm interested in ee, maybe materials, but a big maybe. anyways what are good undergrad engeering schools? so far i have come up with</p>
<p>MIT/CalTech?
Harvey Mudd
Michigan Ann Arbor
UC Berkeley?
UC Santa Barbara?
UC San Diego?</p>
<p>the question marks im not sure of but have heard good things about. can anyone verify?
i would like to expand this list as soon as i can so i can get cracking :)</p>
<p>also, my gpa suffers at around 3.5 but i have more than 8 AP/honors, so im guessing maybe a 4.0weighted? my overall gpa is low is because of other classes, but my math/science grades are A's. all math/phys APs are 5s too, does that help? and my sat1 is a around 2050. retaking in oct, and i think i can get 2200+. SAT2C is 800, taking SAT2 Phys in november and i'm rather confident in that. what are my chances in getting to the above, and on other schools i haven't noticed yet?</p>
<p>thanks for all your time, i really appreciate your help and input!</p>
<p>You will definitely need to improve your SAT scores if you want a serious shot at most of the top EE programs, which are:</p>
<p>GROUP 1:
California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley</p>
<p>GROUP 2:
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUP 3:
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Rice University
University of Califiornia-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>All three groups are amazing. The schools in group 1 are arguably the top 4 Engineering programs on Earth. The schools in groups 2 and 3 are almost as good. You'd have to drop to groups 6 or 7 before youcan start refering to the programs as merely "good". </p>
<p>Your GPA will hurt a little, especially with the mega-selective schools like Caltech, MIT, Princeton and Stanford. However, given the fact that your grades in the sciences were very good and that you are interested in Engineering, you have a shot.</p>
<p>The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is an excellent Engineering school, as is Cooper Union, and you can add the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, although it is not as established. The reason I do not encourage applying to those schools is because if you want to switch majors to something other than Engineering, you don't have many options. At Harvey Mudd, you have the remaining Claremont McKenna Colleges so you atleast have options.</p>
<p>Alex, I'm going to disagree with you putting CMU ECE in the second group. I don't quite understand your criteria as CMU ECE postgrad reports are just as good as Stanford/MIT/Caltech/Berkeley if not better. The school has unmatched connections with the likes of Microsoft and Google (Google's new branch in Pittsburgh+appointing of CMU professor to head it and the Gates building are examples for '06). Note: CMU ECE is harder to get into than normal engineering and overlaps with CMU's SCS. </p>
<p>Further proof is the fact that many CMU ECE kids choose CMU over just about every other school besides those in your first "tier". For regular engineering I'd definitely agree with you but CMU ECE/SCS is a bit above regular engineering here.</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready, I agree that in CS, CMU is second to none. I'd also say that in CE, CMU is one of the top 3 or 4. However, in Electrical Engineering, CMU is not as strong as MIT, Cal or Stanford.</p>
<p>[Alexandre] US News ranks CMU's (undergrad) computer engineering # 3 and electrical engineering # 8. The distinction however is somewhat artificial as far as CMU is concerned since CMU does not actually offer separate CE and EE majors, but only a joint B.S. in ECE, which, depending on your choice of electives, may focus on traditional EE, traditional CE, or a combination of both. Having said that, I agree with you that, for someone who is interested in majoring in traditional EE, CMU is probably not quite as good as Caltech, MIT, Stanford, or UC Berkeley. Your "group-1" schools (especially Caltech and MIT) also beat CMU in terms of the breadth and depth of the math/science core curriculum. The major where CMU on the other hand beats everybody else on earth (except perhaps MIT, where I'd say there is a tie) is Computer Science (not to be confused with computer engineering).</p>
<p>thanks!
ust out of curiousity alexandre, where did you get your bountiful info about all this and are you a student or what?
loveyour swift replies and helpfulness :)</p>
<p>I am not a student. Universities have been a hobby of mine for over a decade. I keep up with the latest news and with general sentiment in the academic and corporate arenas.</p>
<p>[Alexandre] According to the THES specialty rankings, the top 20 US schools in the "technology" (engineering ?) field would be (peer assessment scores under parenthesis):</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Massachussetts Institute of Technology (100)</p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Berkeley (98.7)</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford University (84.9)</p></li>
<li><p>California Institute of Technology (78)</p></li>
<li><p>Carnegie Mellon University (65.8)</p></li>
<li><p>Georgia Institute of Technology (58.7)</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University (58.3)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (54)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Texas, Austin (53.4)</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell University (51.5)</p></li>
<li><p>Purdue University (51.2)</p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Los Angeles (50.6)</p></li>
<li><p>Princeton University (49.8)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Massachussetts, Amherst (46.2)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (42.5)</p></li>
<li><p>University of California, San Diego (40.9)</p></li>
<li><p>Yale University (40.5)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Wisconsin, Madison (39.2)</p></li>
<li><p>Texas A&M University (38.8)</p></li>
<li><p>Boston University (37)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Based on the other hand on a multitude of criteria (not only peer assessment), the top 20 US schools ** overall <a href="i.e.,%20all%20specialties%20including%20medicine,%20technology,%20natural%20sciences,%20and%20humanities/sciences%20whenever%20applicable">/b</a> are, according to THES ranking,</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Harvard University </p></li>
<li><p>Massachussetts Institute of Technology </p></li>
<li><p>Stanford University </p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Berkeley </p></li>
<li><p>Yale University </p></li>
<li><p>California Institute of Technology </p></li>
<li><p>Princeton University </p></li>
<li><p>Duke University </p></li>
<li><p>Cornell University </p></li>
<li><p>University of Chicago </p></li>
<li><p>Columbia University </p></li>
<li><p>University of Texas, Austin </p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins University </p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennsylvania </p></li>
<li><p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor </p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Los Angeles </p></li>
<li><p>University of California, San Diego </p></li>
<li><p>Carnegie Mellon University </p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern University </p></li>
<li><p>Boston University</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I'd also like to add Harvey Mudd, which hasn't been brought up but is a great engineering school in California, probably comparable to Alexandre's "2nd tier" schools.</p>