<p>When considering EE or ECE as a major, which college will be the best choice?
Can someone inform me the selectivity and preferance rank of those schools below? </p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Caltech
Upenn(Fisher)
Columbia
Cornell
Berkeley
Northwestern
Michigan</p>
<p>Berkely, Stanford and MIT are the best EE schools on that list. Caltech, Princeton and (arguably) Cornell are not far behind.</p>
<p>I would say Michigan is a good engineering school also. Columbia is not a good engineering school. And I don't think UPenn is great at engineering either.</p>
<p>You forgot GA tech and Urbana-Champagne. Arguably the best public EE schools in the nation.</p>
<p>Most of the people prefer schools that is more prestigious than others like Harvard even if the other school's EE ranking is much higher than it especially when considering undergraduate schools. </p>
<p>I don't think that Georgia Tech/UIUC is a good choice.</p>
<p>Actually I don't think so. My neighbor was accepted to Harvard but turned it down for Cornell EE.</p>
<p>Furthermore, your original post said when considering EE/ECE as a major, which colleges are the best. Well, the answers that you get will obviously be based on which schools have good EE/ECE, not general prestige. You may not agree that UIUC is a good engineering school, but everyone else will agree that it is a good school.</p>
<p>@xlist21,</p>
<p>I am sorry but prestige will only get you so far in life. Most people can't afford to go to HYPS and the money saved by going to UIUC (#5 on USNews BTW) is easily around a total of 100k. An intelligent person, from a middle class family can do wonders with 100k...100k invested in the right places can easily double even triple in as little time as 5 years. If you're intelligent enough to get in to HYPS you'll be intelligent enough to take the better deal (e.g half-tuition to UICU or full price at MIT). The only reason I'd like to go to HYPS is to tell my children that I managed to accomplish what most would deem impossible; but if I can't afford it, I don't think its worth the 200k of debt I'll end up having to pay for 20 years of my life.</p>
<p>But if you're rich, by all means go to a prestigious university.</p>