[fightstar]

so i'm in my last year of high school and i need to pick which univerisities to apply to. what i want to get into is computer engineering or mechanical engineer. and i have no clue on which univerisites to apply at. i know that u of a is pretty good for engineering, but i dont know if that only applies to their nanotech stuff only. and i heard that waterloo is pretty good too (like their co-op program). and i'm completely lost on which universities are good for engineer.
so i kinda have two questions.

1) u of a and waterloo, which one is a better university for engineering (computer and mechanical to be more specific)?
2) besides those two, what other universities in north america are good for engineering?

i know its hard to compare two universities with each other, but can soembody please help me out here, or can somebody give me their views on universities for engineering?

thanks!

[Luxirie]

San Jose State University is GREAT for engineering majors!

[dancingbymyself]

University of Delaware has great ENG programs.

[SHARK]

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
UCB.

[Avex]

NANOtechnology is excellent in UC Berkeley. I've attended some lectures relating to nanotechnology and Berkeley seems to be doing killer research on the field.

[melty-kiss]

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It's an engineering powerhous. The engineering college here is extremely good!!

[phalken]

Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon are also great for engineering, and Stony Brook is good for engineering and compsci.

I'm currently a sophmore studying as a Mechanical&Aerospace engineer at Princeton. Stanford and Cornell are the other two semi/Ivies with great engineering programs.

You might want to look into accredited programs when looking for a good uni. Princeton is accredited by ABET, and if you go to their website [abet.org], you can find other universities with accredited programs by choosing Computing-->Computer Science, or Engineering-->Mechanical Engineering.

[ixLoveXse7en]

UC Berkeley!

[delightful123]

Engineering... I'd say MIT and Cal Tech (I don't know those were givens though)... I go to Northwestern, and the engineering program here seems pretty good : ).

[birthdaycakes]

Georgia Tech also has a very good engineering program.

I am not familiar with the ME program here (other than it's one of the largest, if not the largest), but I have a number of friends doing undergrad and grad studies in compE, and it is a good program. Tough, but good.

[Lionheart]

CalTech
MIT
Harvey Mudd are the top 3 I can think of. You need to be careful with Harvey Mudd, they're notorious for a backbreaking work load. No one has ever gotten a 4.0 at Harvey Mudd.

[siliconrex]

there are some good state universities for engineering, like u of michigan and virginia