USC or UCLA, engineering?

<p>Alright so after these many weeks of pondering, I think I have finally narrowed my decision down to USC and UCLA for comp sci/engineering major. </p>

<p>With the financial part (which was my biggest factor in deciding) both are actually similar, so I am taking other factors into consideration. Like academics. I have been hearing and seeing that UCLA has a much better school of engineering (prove me wrong if you can, please), however, UCs are quite risky in my opinion at the moment due to CA's budget crisis. The classes are impacted, and I have heard many stories of people not being able to get the classes they needed because there were so many people signing up for them. USC, on the other hand, as a private college, will not have this kind of problem.</p>

<p>So what do you think, folks? UCLA or USC?</p>