<p>There were 226 companies as apposed to 345 a year before. But I am guessing this was the case at all career fairs across the country that semester since a lot of companies had to freeze their hirings, and even then you can see that a lot of the major companies were still present.</p>
<p>That list was just for career showcase over a few day period and was not a list of total recruiter involvement over the course of the year. Still, it proves the point that UF does not just draw from a local area of recruiters as you originally implied.</p>
<p>I was also an MDC student (took a lot of dual enrollment classes), and I ended up here at GT.
Honestly, I think the only decisive factor here is money. For everything else, there’s master card. I mean, Georgia Tech. You’ll be impressed with the quality of the classes and professors, especially when compared to MDC’s. GT has a well built reputation of being at the top when it comes to engineering. In terms of academics, career goals, job opportunities, the obvious answer is GT. But, again, there’s the money issue. This is something you’ll have to answer for yourself, however. With no financial aid, GT will cost you about $16.5k per semester as an out of state student. On the other hand, UF is a great school and, being an in-state student, tuition could be significantly cheaper.</p>
<p>Of course they don’t pull exclusively from the local community. First of all, you have some nationally recognized programs, such as accounting. Second, there are some companies that go to every major university because of these size. Regardless, a lower tier school such as Florida places a much higher percentage of it’s students in-state and in surrounding areas than higher ranked schools.</p>
<p>Are you pulling this stuff out of the sky or can you actually back this up?</p>
<p>Also, all of those companies that come to your career fairs are probably more interested in talking to grad students rather than undergrad. Georgia tech has 4,347 grad students to Florida’s 2,711</p>
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I agree that Georgia tech is a better grad school, no question about it. But as for undergrad, I would take UF any day. I believe that in engineering, one can learn same amount in any university…There are some good and bad professors everywhere but in engineering u have to be able to learn a lot of the material on your own. As far as I can tell the only thing that makes a difference is the level of students around you. The smarter the student body, the more competitive it gets and you are pushed to learn the material even better especially if a lot of classes r on a curve system. I strongly believe that UF’s undergrads are brighter if u just look at the admission statistics. UF is extremely difficult to get into. Georgia tech…well not too hard to put it nicely. </p>
<p>Why do so many people want to go to UF? Well besides the sports, pretty much every1 who gets in and is in-state has 100% free tuition thanks to bright futures. </p>
<p>National recruiters know that a bunch of kids here at UF could have easily gone to higher ranked out of state schools if we felt like throwing the money away, and that is one of the reasons they recruit here.</p>
<p>You conveniently omitted the comment “most people make a distinction between Top 10 and 11-25”. Not to mention that UF routinely jumps between tiers as a borderline school.</p>
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<p>Actually, they’re not. Professional graduate programs (such as law and MBA programs) usually have their own separate career fairs. Doctoral students are generally directly marketed rather than the shotgun career fair approach. Besides, Florida has 16,536 graduate students.</p>
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<p>I actually used to believe this, until someone on this website performed a comparison between the material covered in common EE courses. It turns out, the top schools covered 25% more material per class than the lower ranked schools. </p>
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<p>What admission statistics are you looking at? Georgia Tech, average SAT is 1356/1600. At UF, it’s 1266/1600. That’s not a little difference, that’s a big difference.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to be biased, but it’s another to make a fool of yourself. No one, and I mean no one you will ever meet will tell you that Florida is the better engineering school or even overall academic school. The notion is laughable.</p>
<p>“It turns out, the top schools covered 25% more material per class than the lower ranked schools.”</p>
<p>GPB…are you talking in generalizations or with respect to UF and GaTech specifically?
My company tracks educational preparation of 50-75 schools pretty closely, and we do not find such a radical difference. In MechE, Materials, AeroE, and Systems, I do not believe the difference in undergrad preparation between GaTech and UF is very significant. In fact, UF actually scores higher in some metrics.</p>
<p>I am not criticizing GaTech, as it clearly is a top engineering school. If the OP wants to spend the extra money, and more importantly, finds GT to be a better fit, then he should make every attempt to attend. I don’t think the UF alternative, however, will prove to be a handicap for at least the engineering fields I am familiar with.</p>
<p>Well Burdell, let’s see who is making a fool of themselves here.</p>
<p>I am going to ask you to once again to explain and back-up the following quote.
I had no problem last year getting an internship with one of the semiconductor companies in the Silicon Valley(Kind of far from Florida)</p>
<p>Are you seriously claiming that University of Florida is not a tier 1 school? </p>
<p>The number of grads I listed were engineering grads which I got from usnews. </p>
<p>I would not be surprised if better engineering schools covered more material than other schools. I would guess that is due to students at the better engineering schools being brighter and therefore being able to take in more material. According to rogracer, UF actually scores higher in some categories. </p>
<p>Considering that UF undergrad is 3 times as large as Georgia Tech, I would say that makes our stats even more impressive. Just imagine how selective UF would be if it was a smaller sized school. </p>
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<p>I know of 5 guys that just graduated from UF top of the class and they r going to Georgia Tech for grad school, so I will say this once again…Georgia Tech is great for grad school. And this is where their #4 ranking comes in, it’s a ranking of the grad schools. </p>
<p>I know there are some ranking of undergrad somewhere, but I really don’t know how you can rank undergraduate engineering…practically the same everywhere, only actual students make a difference. Let’s not forget the OP is asking about undergrad. </p>
<p>OP might also be interested to know that Georgia Tech has a horrible male to female ratio. It’s close to 70% male.</p>
<p>Thanks to UFs sports program and their party ranking, it’s pretty hard to get in as a freshman. And Impossible to get in as a transfer if you don’t go to a florida CC. </p>
<p>Anyways, Fesago, I’m glad you are loving your facilities over there. How much in loans and scholarships did you get more or less. What do you mean by dual enrollment classes? Did you take transient classes at FIU?</p>
<p>I really want to go to GT. But the main reason of my post is money. Especially If I can’t get the loans to pay for GT.</p>
<p>BTW I see many Florida alumni plate. It would feel good to carry a GT alumni plate in Miami. I doubt, I wouldn’t move to CA after GT. But If i were given the oppurtunity to work here, I would.</p>