<p>How is the UT-Austin Enginnering program???</p>
<p>Well, it's been in the top 10 before so I would have to say it's really great. I think it's ranked 11th right now.</p>
<p>About on-par with the Texas A&M Engineering program ;)</p>
<p>^^^ I lol'd.</p>
<p>im looking at TAMU, UT, and purdue for my undergrad for mech or aero engineering. which would be the best school to goto?
(sorry for threadjacking)</p>
<p>It's all a matter of best fit. Visit all of them and see which you like the most.</p>
<p>gonna visit purdue over spring break and ut in a month. Iv been to tamu a bunch of times for SO and really like the campus. sorta leaning towards tamu atm.</p>
<p>what exactly did gstein mean? [About on-par with the Texas A&M Engineering program]</p>
<p>UT>A&M basically...</p>
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<p>Yes sir, you are correct. You deserve a PhD for your brilliance.</p>
<p>^ i lold at ur last two posts</p>
<p>I am an Aggie (ChemE) set to graduate on May 2009. If you are thinking about going to industry after your Bachelor's, there is no difference between UT and TAMU, atleast for job placement. I have also heard that employers tend to like Aggies better because of their sincerity and their track record in industry. However, if you want to go to Grad schools after UG degree UT is far better in most of the engineering fields. But you will never find a college town like College Station and Aggie traditions are incomparable. Wanna have a good time along with premier degree come to Aggieland. I have enjoyed every second of it.</p>
<p>^how were your years so far as an aggie in terms of time management?</p>
<p>You shouldn't have a problem with time management except during the final 15 days of the semester.</p>
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<p>You <em>would</em> have heard that since you're in College Station. ;)</p>
<p>As someone who works with about half Aggies and half Longhorns and has NO dog in the fight because I'm a Rice grad, there's really no difference. They're both excellent universities, and everyone in this state is highly biased towards either one or the other unless you're one of the rare folks in this state who is completely unaffiliated with A&M or UT. Equivalent job prospects for engineers from both programs, one's not better than the other in the eyes of employers, because companies employ hordes of engineers from BOTH schools.</p>
<p>They DO have VERY different feels to the two campuses, though, so I'd say it's mostly about where you best fit. (Or whether Granddad was an Aggie and you'd be disowned for setting foot in Austin, or whether your whole family are Longhorns and they'd never speak to you again if you showed up to a family function wearing maroon.)</p>
<p>I agree that the views in CS are biased toward A&M which is true for all the college towns. However, given the fact that A&M hosts the biggest Engineering Career-Fair seems to support the argument.</p>
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<p>That only means that A&M puts a lot of effort into their engineering career fair. That's a good thing, but it doesn't mean that employers prefer A&M grads over UT grads.</p>
<p>They're both excellent universities, and as others have said, there's really no difference in graduates at the undergrad level from either school. However, UT-Austin is generally seen as the strongest engineering university in the state in terms of reputation in the academic community.</p>
<p>Number of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering:</p>
<p>UT 50
Texas A&M 16
Rice 12
University of Houston 5
Texas A&M System 2
SMU 1
Texas Tech 1</p>
<p>By number, as well as % of faculty with this honor, UT has an amazing concentration of engineering talent.</p>
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<p>Similarly, that just means that UT-Austin encourages their faculty members to get inducted to the National Academy of Engineering. Who do you think does the inducting, but the people who are already in the Academy? And if they're mostly from UT, wouldn't that almost certainly mean that they're more familiar with their direct colleagues? Also, you mention percentage of full-time faculty members who are in the Academy, but you don't say what the percentages are. Just saying the number won't help gauge the overall quality of the program. Further, are any of those Academy members emeritus, and haven't set foot on campus in a decade? How many of those elite professors are actually teaching undergrads?</p>
<p>To a certain degree, I'm playing devil's advocate, but basically, the point y'all should take home is that with any metric you throw out there to say that your program is "best" is probably a little bit bogus. Bottom line, they're both good programs. I'm not going to change the viewpoints of any current or former Longhorns or Aggies, but any prospective students need to really understand that it's a wash, in terms of program quality, and that any claim to the contrary is largely bias-based.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that your decision will haunt you for the rest of your life since you can't switch loyalties once you are on one side or the other. However, if you somehow manage to marry someone from "the other school" they do sell those "A House Divided" flags which are half maroon and half burnt orange. </p>
<p>You really need to visit both schools and see which is the better fit for your personality.</p>
<p>aibarr, you had me at hello.</p>