<p>Which school would be better for engineering?</p>
<p>i would think it would be UCR but people keep saying that school as a whole is the dumpster school of the UC system so i dunno</p>
<p>SC is the better engineering choice. You also have access to silicon valley there.</p>
<p>Neither school is known for Engineering, so you should pick the school with the better campus environment, which most would say is UCSC.</p>
<p>UC is emphasizing UCSC for engineering. This means it gets extra funding, faculty & graduate students are steered there, etc. The optional written evaluations of undergraduate students, in addition to grades, is reputedly a significant boost to graduate school applications in the sciences and engineering.</p>
<p>UCSC is also significantly superior to UCR in the proportion of full-time instructors, as opposed to adjunct faculty (hired just to teach a single course) in almost every field. It is a better place for most undergraduates. There are exceptions, such as English and Politics where UCR could hardly be worse.</p>