<p>Exactly. Why would you be concerned about class size when you applied to big schools?</p>
<p>Hi Sang54</p>
<p>many UIUC blogs talk about CE engineering course being " very rigorous and demanding" .</p>
<p>I had decided in favor of UIUC over UT, but now am having doubts whether i`ll be able to cope up in UIUC and maintain respectable GPAs.</p>
<p>I have always been in top 20% of my high school science class. SAT 2070,
SAT II physics 740, Maths level 2 760.</p>
<p>would UT be a better decision?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>This is a common concern for a lot of students entering colleges with rigorous engineering programs. I seriously doubt UT's CE program would be any easier...the curriculum is pretty standard across most programs and the academic competition at both is likely similar.</p>
<p>Be happy with your decision and look forward to the challenge.
Good luck!</p>
<p>I am in Austin now and the weather is gorgeous. I agree with UCB. I doubt if engineering would be any easier at UT but it sure would be a lot more fun down here.</p>
<p>I would go to Austin or UM... Only cause my dad went there(UM) and I get slight preferential treatment... admission wise.
But since you have it Narrowed Down...
I would Choose Austin...
1)The Indian Community in Austin is not STRONG but it is decent, but if you stay in Texas. Both Houston and Dallas have STRONG Indian communities.
2)Austin is harder to get into OOS... and the Job Market will hugely Favors you anywhere in the Nation as UT has it graduating class offered the most jobs.
3)It is Not an inferior school, it is a diverse University. You have your gangsters, preps, Nerds, Sk8ers...you name it so you will find friends and fit in... Its a total college town
4) Austin will be wayyyy closer to weather in India... Houston even more so...
5) They have about the same prestige, so Austin will be slightly cheaper...
6) I know a few Indians attending UTs Engineering program next year, UT has a Larger Asian population (both in Percentage and Sheer number...UT is about 17% Asian and UIUC about 12%... UT is also the largest university in the Nation... Population wise...)</p>
<p>There various other reasons, but like others have said... you can't go too wrong with either choice.
Go with what YOU want, not what mom and dad want. So if you want UIUC then go to UIUC... if you want UT...go to UT...</p>
<p>I did my undergrad from UIUC in Computer Science and currently doing MBA at McCombs Business school at UT Austin. So I had a flavor of both the universities…</p>
<p>UIUC has a much better campus…no comparison in that respect. Austin as a city is nicer with the whole sixth street but the actual university campus is much cramped(relatively speaking). Also the facilities related to computer engineering is better at Urbana with DCL, Siebel center and NCSA. </p>
<p>I am from Bangladesh originally but still prefer colder weather, I hate the humidity and 100 F temperate in Texas. Even though the winter at Austin is really nice, its perfect. But summer is horrible… Chicago as a city is 100 times better than Houston or Dallas. Infact the only good part of Texas is Austin.</p>
<p>Overall I would prefer UIUC over UT anytime, specially in engineering.</p>
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<p>That’s fair, but UT does still have the higher # of faculty in the NAE vs. Illinois. And the facilities are quite comparable to Illinois - don’t forget the Pickle Research Campus isn’t attached to the main campus, but a few miles up the street. That’s where most of the large scale engineering research takes place. The ACES computer facility on the campus proper is very nice, though. And fwiw, UT, through a NSF grant, currently has the fastest academic supercomputer in the world (i.e., dedicated to open academic research). It also should be pointed out that literally hundreds of thousands of South/Southeast Asians don’t feel the same way about Dallas and Houston considering the very large population clusters in those metros.</p>
<p>Blue Waters at UIUC, $208 million dollar project funded by NSF, when it goes online in 2011, will be the fastest supercomputer in the world.</p>