University Comparison: Waterloo vs. UIUC for Electrical Engineering

[Naeem]

Hi, All

My question , is :

Is University of Waterloo, in Canada or UIUC , University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL USA , better for Electrical Engineering. ( In terms of ranking and value , quality of instruction etc. etc. )


Comments, or critcisms are welcome!

Thanks,

 

[bfd]

I'm not sure about the rankings for electrical engineering at UIUC but I know for a fact they are ranked near with MIT for engineering in general. It's a very competitive school. Many of the people from my hs class would apply under a different college program (ex. UIUC's libertal arts program) then transfer later to the program of their choice.

 

[exequor]

I have never been to any of those schools so I compare them by the course offerings, I must say University of Waterloo has a good EE program. From what I have seen you get to do a lot of electives which other schools do at the masters level.

 

[neurocomp2003]

MAC>UW at ElecEng hehe. If youwere going for Compsci then it would be the other way.

 

[akarmis]

A few years ago when I was thinking about going into EE, UIUC was ranked number two (in the US News ranking) right behing MIT, if I remember correctly. They aren't anymore, but I can only see the top three schools on their website without paying anything, so I don't know where they are right now. From what I hear, it's still one of the best programs in the country.

 

[Nenad]

MAC>UW at ElecEng hehe. If youwere going for Compsci then it would be the other way.

Umm, there's no need to post giberish on this forum. I don't know about the school in the states you are speaking of but if you go to U of Waterloo for EE, you will get a top notch education.

Regards,

Nenad