<p>As far as computer science and engineering goes, what are some of the pros and cons of UW and UT? The price for me for both colleges works out to be about the same.</p>
<p>I suspect that UW is higher in prestige than UT, but I might be biased since I’m Canadian. I’ve heard of only great things about the quality of education and opportunities at UW, ESPECIALLY for CS and engineering. I don’t know about UT, but Waterloo has a great CO-op program.</p>
<p>UT is one of the best schools in the US for engineering and CS. It is ranked in the top 10 for both (Though I generally argue that CS is too new to rank). On top of that Austin is a huge high tech hub so job opportunites are very available. UT is also much better known than University of Waterloo for sure in the US and I suspect abroad.</p>
<p>I am in the Waterloo camp.</p>
<p>some background on Waterloo students:</p>
<p>[William</a> Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition]William”>William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Some more background on Waterloo students:</p>
<p>[ACM</a> International Collegiate Programming Contest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest]ACM”>International Collegiate Programming Contest - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I suspect UTPG1234 is right that UT would be seen as a much bigger name in most parts of the US, but I have no idea about opinions in Canada. As far as location goes, Austin is a fantastic city, and it would definitely have a lot of tech-based job opportunities.</p>
<p>Both are awesome. UT will be better known in the US, Waterloo in Canada. However, major CS employers will probably know both.</p>
<p>Have you visited the campuses?</p>
<p>All the big software companies love Waterloo. The Canadian government has put big money into their top universities. Very big money. Billions to hire top sciences people and more for research. They hired lots of top people out of Britain and Europe where funding is bad.</p>
<p>That focus helped draw Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist from the University of Cambridge, to the University of Western Ontario. A pioneer in the use of imaging to communicate with brain-injured patients, he accepted an excellence research chair at an institution where brain and mind research was already a strategic priority.</p>
<p>Western Ontario has hired 30 faculty members over the past decade in neuroscience and, with provincial-government funds, has acquired the latest magnetic-resonance-imaging tools in Canada. The university already holds 10 Canada-research chairs for imaging and neuroscience. It “has a formidable reputation for imaging,” says Mr. Owen, “and the facilities are in a different universe than back in Cambridge. They have many more people with brain-imaging experience, and there are three scanners here, compared to one at Cambridge.”</p>
<p>Universities find that the research chairs create a ripple effect. Mr. Owen will bring five members of his team from Cambridge and plans to hire more researchers for his lab at Western Ontario’s Centre for Brain and Mind.</p>
<p>He also expects to train a dozen master’s and Ph.D. students annually over the next seven years. Like all chair holders, he is eligible for up to $2-million for laboratory equipment from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.</p>
<p>“Knowing in advance that we are going to be able to train that number of people in this area is totally unique for me,” he says, "because up to now I have been doing it in a piecemeal way. In a separate recruitment, Western Ontario hired his wife, Jessica Grahn, an American neuroscientist who studies links between the brain and music.</p>
<p>The Canadian strategy to recruit talent comes amid turmoil for other countries, such as the recent budget crisis in Britain and a flatlining of research support there.</p>
<p>“Canada has been in front of the pack, especially if we look at Canada’s investment from a sector or system perspective,” says V. Lynn Meek, director of the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, at the University of Melbourne, in Australia.</p>
<p>From COHE</p>
<p>I stand corrected.</p>