What are the good universities in the US for Computer Engineering
 

Hi People,
It's time for me to figure out which universities I should apply for.
Obviously I am going to do Computer Engineering. So I would like a little feedback from all of you who have already been to good universities or are still in universities. I am going to apply for the US and I want to get into a good one where they use LINUX :)
You might not be in the US, but you might know some good places, won't you???.

Thanks in advance,
Denesh.R

Erm... It might be stating the obvious, but...

M.I.T ?

damn, took my answer...

lol, its been my dream to go there for ages

caltech, georgia tech, even some of those lame schools you see on tv might be worth checking out (ITT tech)

location and facilities enhance a very good program at the u.md.,college park. excellent physics and engineering depts. as well.

CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)

Here are some good technical universities in America:

http://web.mit.edu/

Go to Virginia Tech if you can both program and play football
http://www.vt.edu/

http://www.gatech.edu/

http://www.stanford.edu/

Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Rensselar Polytechnic

Thanks guys, Thank you very much. All your responses saved me a lot of time. Thank you!!!

I checked the sites and the upsetting thing was that most of the universities did not offer financial aid for international students. I am from Sri Lanka and, my parents will be glad if I can get my tuition fees reduced.

Paying about $20 000 - $40 000 a year will be damn hard because I have 5 more younger brothers below me.

Do you guys know any way that I could atleast get the pressure off my parents. Is it possible to work part time and earn enough money to pay atleast 20%-30% of the fees myself. Or are there any scholarships offered for International Students.

I tried searching in CollegeBoard.com but that was a mess. Most of them required the applicant to be enrolled in a University already.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Guys

" Or are there any scholarships offered for International Students."

Scholarships are offered for a hodgepodge of reasons. The best way to sort out the mess is to create a list of universities that you might like to attend and then contact those universities asking what scholarships would be available to you at that university.

Thanks for the reply. I'll check them.

hey there!
i'm from SL too.
Won't you like to consider MRT ,sl. i Mean ,try your superb best at the AL's (Die hard!) and try your very best to get to MRT.
or may be there's a different dream that you might wanna consider,( something that u've been good at all ur life) which will also make ur parents proud...
just a suggestion!
well, about schol.s. There are options, such as
doing well at Al's here in SL itself as to get a very high rank
or doing well at London AL's etc.
or doing well here at SAT/TOEFL as to get very good scores.
which might stimulate good considerations for half or full scholarships.
i know a few ppl who got to MIT this way, from SL.

not to spoil your parade even more, but it is predicted that by the time I graduate (07) MIT yearly tuition with inflation and all that included is 57,000/yr. highest in the region

yeah, i go to college park for computer engineering. and its a really good school for that. especially graduate school. i think the graduate computer engineering programs are in the top 10 in the US. and its a state school so its alot cheaper than MIT or whatever. www.umd.edu . i dig it.

also, you might want to just look at one of those US news and world reports college rating books. and then make a list of universities that sound good, visit their website, email some people, make some calls, yadda yadda.

The University of North Dakota has a very good Comp. Sci school. It's also a public University.
http://www.und.edu

Thanks a lot guys,

I applied to all the universities you suggested and I got admitted to Virginia Tech.

I couldnt have heard about it, if not for this forum.

Thanks a lot guys.

I am hoping to get a reply from a VT student on this forum.

Anyway I am in a happy mood.

Now I am looking for a good notebook and preferably an AMD one, which I think is cheaper and better than a Pentium one. Any suggestions ?

Thanks guys!!!

Hi seidren,

It's good to hear that you got admitted to a place you wanted. I haven't been posting anything on this thread, but I was following it very meticulously. Why? Because I also have applied to US universities in order to study "Electrical and Computer Engineering" and "Computer Science".

Another interesting fact is that one of my friends too has been accepted from VirginiaTech. I do not know if he has visited the place yet, but I'll ask him.

On my part, I got accepted to Brown, Duke, Carnegie-Mellon, WPI and MichiganTech, and still waiting an answer from Princeton (I'm not hopeful though). Can anybody who knows the universities give me some directions about which one to choose? I think Worcester Polytechnic might be the more reasonable choice?

Good Luck!
BB

Not another Techie! Just kidding :p . Good luck down at Tech, I know a few people there.

I don't go to Tech, but here's a page where you find some AMD Athlon laptops in any case.

Out of all of those, I would say that Carnegie-Mellon is the probably the best choice for a technical university. I'm guessing that you wouldn't qualify for in-state tuition for any of those that might be public universities, so in that case, there wouldn't be too significant of a difference in tuition between a public and a private institution.

"I am hoping to get a reply from a VT student on this forum."

Both I and my sister graduated from Virginia Tech.

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Steve Stites
Class of 66

If you are short on money you can go to a Canadian university. Tuition is rarely over US$8000 /year even for international students. The University of Waterloo is known nationally for its engineering programs.

Try:
www.uwaterloo.ca (University of Waterloo)
www.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto)

I wouldn't be concerned that these universities are in Canada and not in the U.S. Canadian culture is the same as the U.S. so I wouldn't worry about missing out on "American life". Toronto, the center of a metropolitan area of 6.5 million, is only 1.5 hours drive from Buffalo, New York. And the temperatures in Toronto are rarely more than 3 degrees Celsius colder than Boston, MA (Harvard, MIT) so if you are going to a cold city anyway, why not save some bucks and go to U of T?

Wow! glad to hear that !!!
One silly question for you jailbait, is it really cold there?
I live in a very hot country and I think getting used to a cold one would be a tough challenge.

It is possible to qualify for in-state tuition fees. Atleast for the second or third year. One of my friends has done it in New York. So I guess that will not be a problem, as far as I can pay for the first year. And I am hoping to apply for loans and scholarships and do some part time job to cover most of the expenses. Hopefully it will all go smooth.

"One silly question for you jailbait, is it really cold there?
I live in a very hot country and I think getting used to a cold one would be a tough challenge."

I lived for two years in northern Thailand which has a climate similar to Sri Lanka. The temperature is relatively constant all year round. The two seasons are the dry season and the monsoon. For seven months there is not a cloud in the sky. Then for five months is rains continuously.

Virginia is a temperate climate. It rains or snows at erratic times all year round. The coldest time of the year is January. The temperature gradually rises to reach its hottest point in July. Then the temperature gradually cools to the January lows. When the temperature is below 0 (all temperatures are Centigrade although the U.S. actually uses Fahrenheit) it snows instead of raining. From about May 1 to about September 30 the temperature is about the same as what you would experience in Sri Lanka. During January and February the average temperature is about 4. The coldest temperature you will see at Virginia Tech is about -8 on a very cold day. The average temperature during July and August is about 30. The highest temperature that you will see at Virginia Tech is about 40 on an extremely hot day.

When it snows the ratio of snow to rain is about 12 to 1. If a storm would rain 1 centimeter then it will snow 12 centimeters if the temperature is below 0. The combination of rain and the temperature being below 0 results in about 30 to 60 centimeters of snow a winter at Blacksburg. When it snows the snow will melt in a week or so whenever the temperature climbs back above 0. The day to day temperature varience is greater in the temperate zone than in the tropics.

If you arrive here in September then you will not need any jacket or coat immediately. You can buy winter clothing in Blacksburg. There is no need to try to bring it from Sri Lanka.

Buildings in the temperate zone are not open to the weather like buildings in the tropics. A combination of heating and air conditioning keeps all buildings at about 21 degrees all year round. Similarly for automobiles. Personally I like the heating but dispense with the air conditioning whenever I can.

Yes getting used to the cold can be a challenge. I moved from Thailand to Toronto, Canada on January 2, 1970. My first week in Toronto the highest temperature was -17. I shivered so much while waiting for buses that I had back spasms. Within a few years my favorite recreation was hunting in the Canadian boreal forests in the dead of winter.



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Steve Stites

That's cold, even for Canada. The average high in January is -1 C here. It can get as low as -24 and as high as +12 in January. In July highs are around 27 degrees and often up to 34 degrees.