Which school is the best for EE??

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<p>boomer, </p>

<p>Northwestern's strength in "soft" fields like journalism/communication/theater/music may give any average person the impression that it's not good in engineering but it's undergrad program is actually ranked #13. It's not just good at BME. Its material science dept is a pioneer in the field and always in top-3 but then mat sci is not a well-known field. NU's IE is ranked like #7, better than many of those "known for engineering". But then some don't view it as real engineering. ;)</p>

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<p>The top EE programs have the following percentages of international grad students: MIT 30%, Stanford 81%, Berkeley 40%, UIUC 49%, Caltech 45%, Michigan 66%, Georgia Tech 48%, CMU 59%, Purdue 79%, Cornell 55%, Princeton 63%, UCLA 52%. I don't know if Stanford is actually that extreme, but you can see that on average, over half of the population is international. I don't have the link for this information, but I got it from an online directory of graduate schools. MIT's percentage is low because their acceptance rate for internationals is several times lower than for domestic applicants.</p>

<p>I got my MS EE last year, so I'm currently in the PhD program at Stanford.</p>

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<p>im_blue, </p>

<p>Can you give the link to the website, I don't think Caltech EE dept. has so many international grad students (45% ??).</p>

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<p>back to the original question :),</p>

<p>I got accepted to UIUC, and I think the decision will probably come down to UIUC or UMich or CMU or Cornell or Rice</p>

<p>Any opinions on UIUC's EE program??</p>

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<p>If you can hack the cost, go to the smaller elite school, ie CMU, Cornell or Rice.</p>

<p>More personal attention.</p>

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<p>the figure for international grad students for umich sounds too small. i haven't had an engineering TA who isn't asian.</p>

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<p>I can think of two reasons why that might be:
1) Many fellowships are reserved for U.S. students, so they don't have to TA.
2) Asian-Americans are probably the majority of U.S. students as well.</p>

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<p>Hello, all 5 schools are awesome...and so different that chosing between them should be easy. Here is how I would personally rank the schools in several aspects: </p>

<p>In terms of overall academic reputation, I would rank the five as follows:</p>

<h1>1 Cornell University and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>3 Carnegie Mellon University and Rice University</h1>

<h1>5 UIUC</h1>

<p>In terms of EE rankings:</p>

<h1>1 UIUC</h1>

<h1>2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>3 Cornell University</h1>

<h1>4 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>

<h1>5 Rice University</h1>

<p>In terms of campus life:</p>

<h1>1 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>2 Rice University</h1>

<h1>3 Cornell University</h1>

<h1>4 UIUC</h1>

<h1>5 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>

<p>In terms of overall setting:</p>

<h1>1 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>2 Cornell University</h1>

<h1>3 Rice University</h1>

<h1>4 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>

<h1>5 UIUC</h1>

<p>So, it really depands what you want. But either way, you cannot go wrong.</p>

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<p>Thanx Alexandre, but abt CMU, Cornell & Rice, dont you think since they are private & smaller they might better for undergrad than UMich or UIUC.</p>

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<p>Hello, funny that you and I should both live in Dubai! hehe I already know of three students from the UAE who will be attending Michigan next fall. I hope you do too.</p>

<p>To answer your question about size and public vs private, it really depends what you want. Each offers different benefits and disadvantages. But it is a myth that private universities are better, either at the graduate or un dergraduate level. In many cases, the myth is justified, but not always. For example, Michigan has a larger endowment and budget than Cornell...by a sizeable amount. And classes at Michigan are usually smaller than at Cornell. </p>

<p>By the way, I went to Cornell graduate school, and I think very highly of Cornell. Michigan and Cornell are practically identical. Rice is much more typical of a private university. Carnegie Mellon is more of an institute of technology than anything else.</p>

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<p>could someone explain what UIUC is?</p>

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<p>UIUC = University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign = #1 school of Engineering in the Midwest.</p>

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<p>ya, UIUC is really good at EE. altho i don't know why people like EE in the first place, its so damn hard.</p>

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<p>What about Notre Dame? Is that a good school for EE?</p>

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<p>i think its required to teach/TA some classes to complete phD.</p>

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<p>Notre Dame is good but not great in Engineering. Ranked among the top 50 but not in the top 25. However, it does have a strong Chemical Engineering department. Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame is decent but not good.</p>

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<p>Whats the difference between ECE and EE?? For eg, Cornell, CMU & Rice offer ECE wile UMich and UIUC offer EE, any idea how exactly do these programs differ??</p>

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<p>ECE is Electrical and Computer Engineering, and EE is Electrical Engineering. ECE departments offer degrees in EE and Computer Engineering (including UIUC). Some places like MIT and Berkeley have an EECS department. They're just administrative divisions - the programs are very similar except that for ECE you can choose a more computer-oriented track.</p>

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<p>bump...</p>

<p>I got some decisions,
Accepted : Northwestern, UIUC, CMU
Rejected : MIT</p>

<p>I hope it will be easy deciding between these colleges :D</p>

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<p>Hi i'm blue.. I was surfing on grad school and got directed to this website somehow. I am currently an undergrad in EE at U of I and am keen on going to Stanford for Masters. I would really appreciate it if you could drop me a msg or something. Thanks!</p>