<p>Hi,
I`m from India having not much knowledge of the American Universities.
I have recvd admit confirmations from both Purdue & Univ of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for their 4 year undergraduate programme in Computer Engineering and am in the usual dilemma... which to confirm?
Rankings ... Illinois is better ranked but Purdue is not ranked really much below and has an excellant reputation of being a pure engineering institute.
I don`t know much about the quality of their courses,programmes, faculty and facilities in Computer Engineering undergarduate department.</p>
<p>Both overall and in engineering UIUC is more highly regarded and ranked. </p>
<p>Purdue is an overall decent public institution, with the reputation in engineering it gets from producing more engineers than any other university. </p>
<p>However, even with Purdue's flagship engineering program, UIUC is still higher ranked for engineering, as well as for the general university ranking. It is considerably more difficult to get into as well. Plus, most people consider Purdue to be in the middle of no where.</p>
<p>Even I am from India & have been admitted in both these schools for computers undergraduate engg. you can get in touch with me on <a href="mailto:akhushani@gmail.com">akhushani@gmail.com</a></p>