UCLA vs GIT vs UofT vs Imperial

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Hello everyone. </p>

<p>I am an international student (Canadian citizen) and I got accepted to all these schools for Electrical Engineering, and I'm having a hard time choosing which one to go to.</p>

<p>Criteria I am considering:</p>

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<li><p>Academic prestige -- I am most likely going to do graduate studies so I want to know which institution's undergraduate students are the most competitive at top engineering graduate schools. </p></li>
<li><p>Quality of education -- The best overall. I am aware that these are all public schools so the class size might be large. Though large classes don't necessarily mean bad quality, I hope for a smaller class so I can have sufficient communication with my professors. Also, I want to know which institution assigns mostly professors and not grad students to teach classes.</p></li>
<li><p>Majors -- It's highly possible that I might do EE major and another major or minor. What I have in mind now is EE + business, but who knows.</p></li>
<li><p>Job placements & Internship opportunities -- Same as criteria 1: which institution's students are the most competitive in the eyes of employers?</p></li>
<li><p>Top notch facilities and faculty.</p></li>
<li><p>Location -- I would love to have good weather, but having lived in Toronto for most of my childhood, I don't quite mind winters and snow etc. Academics are the priority.</p></li>
<li><p>Cost -- Though my parents wish me to select the best possible university so that I needn't worry about cost, my conscience tells me that I should still save as much as possible. Thus I want to know the most optimal choice. </p></li>
<li><p>College life -- I want to study hard in university, but also have great fun. I want a very good studying environment, but not one where people have to study like hell every single day. Nor do I want a "party environment".</p></li>
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<p>Imperial is a conditional offer and I need to thus fulfill my conditions before I can consider it, so I'll need to put a deposit at one of the other three before May 1st. Now the decision is mainly between the other three but feel free to comment on Imperial too.</p>

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<p>Bump…opinions please?</p>

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<p>Double Bump…</p>

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<p>Those are all very good schools. Very top notch, all of them.
I would say, your decision should lie almost exclusively on where you want to work geographically, after graduation. </p>

<p>Here comes BanjoHitter…</p>

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<p>If you wanna be competitive for grad school, you’ll probably need some research experience, which doesn’t seem to be easy to get at British universities (from my own experience), as undergrad research isn’t really common over there like it seems to be in the US.</p>

<p>So if you go to Imperial, you might have to do some extra work to find a professor who’s willing to take you under his wing…Also, London has lousy weather.</p>

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<p>In reply to yllihp3:
Good Imperial students get funded research projects during the summer (6-10 weeks). Check out Imperial UROP.</p>

<p>By good I mean top 30% or so. If this is done in 2nd year it can easily be made to tie in with your 3rd and 4th year projects, possibly culminating in a paper.</p>