<p>Any thoughts for an OOS student trying to decide between the two schools?</p>
<p>UIUC's engineering is ranked much higher, within the top 5 while Northwestern is much lower on the list (20s?.) Additionally, I believe their engineering approaches are different. UIUC is a traditional engineering program, while I've heard that NU focuses much more on hands on/real world experience within its curriculum. Also, UIUC asks that you come into the school within a specific engineering major while NU has you enter into the college of engineering and pick a major later. Just some things to consider.</p>
<p>Any views on Aerospace at UIUC? and what about vs. UMIch?</p>
<p>UIUC is not really renowned for its Aerospace program....UIUC is known for more "hands on" engineering like civil (beats MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc!), mechanical, engineering physics, agricultural (duh)....but the more "technical" engineering like aerospace is not as well known....probably because the program is pretty new i believe</p>
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UIUC is not really renowned for its Aerospace program....UIUC is known for more "hands on" engineering like civil (beats MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc!), mechanical, engineering physics, agricultural (duh)....but the more "technical" engineering like aerospace is not as well known....probably because the program is pretty new i believe
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<p>What are you talking about? UIUC has one of the best aerospace programs in the nation. PERIOD.</p>
<p>I'd think that while I know for sure that Illinois is well-known for its engineering, I'm going to assume that Northwestern is as well. In that case, if there is one thing to consider, it's cost. If NW were hypothetically ranked 9 in a field, and UI 10, would that extra spot be worth the extra 10k a year? I doubt it. I also think UI is ranked higher anyways, so it's an even better deal!</p>
<p>Also, having visited Illinois, I was REALLY impressed with the amount of funding/sponsorships from corporations they seem to get. The computer research labs are sponsored by Intel- how can you do any better than that? Also, when you visit UI, make sure you check out the civil engineering building. I'm an EE major and yet I was so impressed with the stuff they did in civil, gave me a huge impression of how the school took their engineering seriously.</p>
<p>I'm an OOS student, and I picked UI over NW. Yeah, I'm biased, but shouldn't that tell you something?</p>
<p>Which engineering major? UIUC is stronger in nearly every major except for Biomedical and Materials Science and Engineering.</p>
<p>^add industrial engineering/management sciences. ;)</p>
<p>UIUC has a respectable IE department. I wouldn't say its "weak" at all. As for materials, I always thought UIUC was top 5.</p>
<p>Hi~I'm torn between UIUC and UVa. I will major at Math & Computer Science and I plan to go to a graduate school after college. Can anyone give me any insight about where I should go? It's so hard to decide~</p>
<p>Goto UIUC and transfer into CS/Engr. UIUC CS/Engr is consistently ranked top 5 in the nation. As long as you don't screw up, you will likely get a good job with top companies (Google, Microsoft, VMWare, etc). UVa is a good school, but in terms of CS, I must say UIUC is a notch above.</p>
<p>To sang54: Hi~ Thank u for replying~ But what about the reputation of Math&CS major at UIUC? Though it's in the college of LAS, I guess the CS department of it belongs to the engineering college. Besides, if I transfer to CS/Engr, I will have to take chemistry course, which is definetly what I'm not good at. I also would like to know the workload of CS majors?.?</p>
<p>Top 5 Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical undergraduate engineering programs are: MIT, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Stanford, & CalTech.</p>
<p>UIUC is ranked #6 for undergraduate Aerospace, which is not much of a difference.</p>
<p>loveday// As for math/cs, it is a good major, but it seems very heavily biased towards math. Even if you are bad at chemistry, I would still suggest you to go for BSCS. UIUC Engr/CS has average salary of $63,000, and it is where Microsoft hires most graduate from in the world. If you are really interested in math, I'd say go for math track within CS/Engr major. Compare the two curriculum, and you will see what I mean when I say Engr/CS is a lot better.</p>
<p>Also, Math/CS don't benefit from some of the engineering college recourses, such as IPENG.</p>
<p>Lastly, here is what UIUC has to say about UIUC Engr/CS and Math/CS:</p>
<p>Students sometimes ask if the major matters to employers. We don't have specific statistics about that, but our impression is that most employers do not favor any one over another. However, employers do sometimes prefer students to have had more CS courses; since the LAS degrees have fewer required CS courses, students who take the minimum number of CS courses for those degrees will be at a disadvantage compared to COE students.</p>
<p>how hard is it to switch from Math/CS to Eng/CS or vice versa?</p>
<p>in order to switch from Math/CS to Eng/CS would you have to apply to Eng school, or would it be fairly easy since the majors are similar?</p>
<p>All the necessary info for both programs is under links on the page sang54 posted. It gives a good idea of which classes you will need for both as well. As you can see from the transfer page, math and computer requirements are the same to get into both once you are in the school, but switching to eng/cs also requires chem and physics.</p>
<p>I'm picking UIUC over NU as well. I'm doing bioengineering. I've heard the program is great, but because it's so new, there's not been much chance for it to really have gotten good ratings yet (i think it's four/five years old this year).</p>
<p>Personally, I think UIUC is a much better school as well as a much better deal because it gives the same--if not better--engineering education as NU. And UIUC has more of a personality than NU (which, I admit, I was not that impressed with on a college visit)</p>