<p>I'm going to be a freshman entering UCLA as an Electrical Engineering major this fall and I've heard numerous stories about how particularly sadistic EE is at UCLA (in terms of the workload). One person commented that the workload at UCLA is even heavier than at MIT.</p>
<p>Does this seem plausible?</p>
<p>I'm an EE grad student at Stanford, so I know people who came from different undergrad schools. One way of comparing different schools is to see how hard people think grad school is relative to undergrad. By that measure, I would say MIT, Berkeley, and Caltech are the hardest undergrad EE programs, since those students have said that grad school is about as hard or slightly easier than their undergrads. The two people I know from UCLA think grad school is really tough, so from that I think that it's not as hard as some of the other programs.</p>
<p>sorry to interrupt but im_blue: Have you met any students from Cal Poly? What have they said about the engineering?</p>
<p>I've taken two EE courses to satisfy my CS major requirement, and they didn't seem sadistic at all. EE1 is basically about electromagnetic fields, and EE2 is about solid-state semiconductor physics. If the EE courses are reputedly hard then it probably occurs at the upper-division level (i.e. beyond EE10), because I found the workload very manageable compared to my CS courses. I got a B in EE1 and am expecting a B in EE2.</p>
<p>EE is hard no matter where you take it</p>
<p>But some places are harder than others. For example, EE at MIT is going to be harder than EE at a no-name school.</p>
<p>Are you implying that UCLA is a no-name school? :confused:</p>