<p>Cal Poly Pomona is quietly moving up the ranks in engineering. I wasn’t thinking of applying there, but my counselor told me to do so since they are getting more competitive and increasing their profile.</p>
<p>At the person who said “UCLA won’t give you the networking that Cal Poly Pomona will”…that’s a joke. I can tell you from first hand experience that the networking is great here. Already have a fantastic summer internship lined up for summer and am participating in awesome research (only been at this school for about a month). I really doubt Cal Poly Pomona would offer the same opportunities, considering that I know this company does not recruit there.</p>
<p>Not saying that Cal Poly Pomona is a bad school by any means for engineering, but I doubt that the networking opportunities are as good there.</p>
<p>UC system: “Do research! Research!!! Graduate school!!!”
Cal Poly Pomona: “Get a job as soon as you graduate and start making money!”</p>
<p>So. It depends on what you want to do. I’m sure you can get a job after UCLA too, but CPP has more connections to get you a job quicker. UCLA is one of the world’s top ranked schools though.</p>
<p>Either choice is probably a good one.</p>
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<p>Exagerrated much? Lots of Cal Poly Civ. E. graduates go on to the UC’s for Masters and PhD.s My son (UCLA grad student) has had professors and grad school friends who did exactly that. Likewise, he has a lot of classmates who got jobs right after getting their B.S. from UCLA.</p>
<p>Whether or not you go to grad school to do PhD research is more a function of your gpa and personal goals than it is of where you got your undergraduate degree. The two universities collaborate on research projects as well, with the Cal Poly MS students working with UCLA MS and PhD students on state funded grants.</p>
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Been to both campuses to recruit, definitely way more companies come to cal poly to recruit cives than ucla. This is no doubt at 1100 CivEs undergrads…</p>
<p>But, pick ucla anyway. Trust me, this is coming from a cpp grad, at the end of the day school name and recognition matters more than networking. I noticed lots of dumb ass from ucla promote faster than cal poly geniuses…</p>
<p>LOL Rheidzan.</p>
<p>I had to make this decision earlier this May as well and I chose CPP over UCLA. </p>
<p>I figured I was planning on getting my MS in Civil Engineering anyway so it’s best to get the hands on experience with CPP for my undergrad and then move on to UC Berkeley for MS (note: UC Berkeley is way better than UCLA in MS/PhD Civil Engineering, i looked up their ranking on US NEWS Colleges, ranked #3 in top CE grad programs).</p>
<p>Oh as for Undergrad CE programs, US News reported in 2011 that CPP is #4 while UCLA was nowhere in the top 10. </p>
<p>After reading that, I was really glad I chose CPP for undergrad.</p>
<p>Sorry! forgot to mention for both undergrad and graduate programs, those #'s are actually for public schools in the West only. </p>
<p>Nationally, public and private, it’s obvious MIT is #1 for CE or any other engineering program for that matter…</p>