<p>I am a graduate of UCD. I can tell you first hand that all the companies from Silicon Valley show up at the career fairs. I have 7 acquaintances that were computer science/computer engineers/EE. 3 are working at Intel, 1 is working for google, 2 are working for Zynga and and 1 is working for Accenture in San Francisco. By the way, I’m a chemical engineer but since everyone takes similar classes the first 2 years, you sort of get to know the entire engineering class. Go Aggies!!! I should add, I got a job from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pretty much everyone I know who went to UCD has a stable job. UCSD is more highly ranked but I can’t tell you whether or not Silicon Valley shows up to UCSD career fairs. My brother got a EECS degree from UC Berkeley and a masters in EE from UCSD. He did ALL his job searching when he flew back up to the bay area and went to UC Berkeley career fairs (exclusively!!). He’s working at Sandisk now by the way. I didn’t ask him but I’m pretty sure if Silicon Valley companies were in high numbers at UCSD, he wouldn’t have had to fly back up to UC Berkeley just for career fairs. While he was at UCSD getting his masters, he interned for 2 summers at Qualcom. It seems like one of the few tech companies down there.</p>
<p>Yea, the UCD campus isn’t amazing looking but the people are really nice and really helpful. It was super easy to make friends. There isn’t a ton to do so everyone sort of bonds together more easily. Seems like everyone wants to be your friend.</p>