UCB EECS vs UCLA CS?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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Thanks in advance for all of the help.

As a high school senior who’s about to graduate, my top two choices for college are UCLA for CS and UC Berkeley for EECS. However, I can’t decide for my life on which of the two I should attend. The primary feedback I’ve gotten is that UCLA > UCB for everything except the CS program.

My main emphasis is on CS; I plan to be in somewhere software related (hopefully video game designing) when I finish college. So yeah, within Berkeley’s EECS, I plan on CSE for upper division classes. As for my social life, I don’t plan on studying 24/7, but I’m not exactly a party animal either.

The biggest factors I’m considering are as followed:

  1. Core CS program (Key Question: Is UCB's program significantly better than UCLA's?)
  2. Job opportunity/Internships
  3. Social life/campus environment/location

Any and all feedback will be greatly appreciated!

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Did you get accepted for both?

Can you please give the source of this “primary feedback.” Thanks.

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Yes I did get into both colleges.

My primary source(s) are friends that go to UCLA and UCB for these majors (mostly third years).