Anybody have any data on the CE admission rate for UIUC? From their website all I know is that about 1.2k students are in undergrad CE.
I don’t know the exact rate, but all CS and CE programs at UIUC are extremely competitive with median ACT around, and perhaps above, 33.
An admissions counselor told us that the most oversubscribed programs were Bio and Computer Science in the Engineering department, both with well under 10% admissions rates. They mentioned Mechanical Engineering as another that would be very difficult for transfers later, even with excellent standing… EE, CE and Civil are all top programs nationwide, but they weren’t mentioned in that tier. So, still difficult in terms of GPA/ACT/SAT, but maybe much higher admissions rate? Hard to say since ECE is very big, like 10x the size of Computer Science, for example. I haven’t seen the numbers broken down by major, though, sorry.
According to a couple of sources on Quora (can’t link) from this year, it appears the UIUC acceptance rates are:
Computer Science - Engineering = 18.5%
Computer Engineering = 47.4%
BioEngineering = 25.9%
Again these appear to be acceptance rates and not enrollment rates (which would be much lower due to yield).
You should probably call the admissions dept and ask to find out for sure.
@colgalo wow that’s an insane difference between CoE and CS considering their great similarities in terms of a major at UIUC specifically