<p>Which program below is more reputable, provides higher career opportunity and has wider alumni network?</p>
<p>1) "Statistics and Computer Science" - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) </p>
<p>2) "Electrical and Computer Engineering" - University of Texas at Austin (Cockrell School of Engineering)</p>
<p>3) "Electrical Engineering" - University of Washington, Seattle (College of Engineering)</p>
<p>bump (i’m interested too)</p>
<p>I’d like to first say they 3 schools are great in those fields, UT Austin is well known and has a lot of companies surrounding the university that specialize in the video game industry, very well-known software companies such as Bioware.</p>
<p>U of W, of course has microsoft right next door basically, and Bill Gates if I remember correctly from my college visit has donated quite a lot of money to the school. And you got Boeing as well, Amazon I believe too…</p>
<p>UIUC is regarded one of the top tier engineering schools in the nation, right there with MIT, Berk, Stanford, all companies across the nation whether in the San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley or in the Chicago suburbs hire grads from UIUC. In fact, a couple years back UIUC was Microsoft’s top school for hiring college grads.</p>
<p>I can’t really say which of the three are the best, you can’t go wrong with any of them…but the majors you listed with the schools are sort of “mixed” when considering each college’s strong points. UIUC is usually in the top 3 for Electrical and Computer Engineering, while U of Washington is one of the elite Computer Science schools.</p>
<p>I might go with U of Washington in this choice, simply because it’s not Computer Science in the college of engineering for Illinois - if it was in the COE, I’d say Illinois because their engineering alumni system and reputation is regarded across the entire nation in the industry.</p>
<p>Computer Science is in the College of Engineering; get your facts straight.</p>
<p>However, they have an option for Computer Science in Liberal Arts. I don’t know any CS majors using that option and do not recommend it.</p>
<p>Are your stats too low for Electrical Engineering at UIUC? I’d definitely consider UIUC for Electrical Engineering.</p>
<p>His facts are straight. There are two computer science programs, one administered through engineering, one administered through math. He got into the one in the math department. I am not sure how it differs from the engineering one, but I do know that it is the engineering one that gets all the accolades. You generally don’t hear about the LAS one very much.</p>
<p>You are absolutely right boneh3ad and I apologize. I talked to a CS major and he confirmed it as well. Too bad I can’t edit my post.</p>
<p>It’s also too bad dreamUni didn’t just apply to EE at UIUC or CS in engineering at UIUC. If it’s got LAS and out of state mixed in the same sentence I would be hesitant to attend UIUC.</p>