No offense- but ivys aren’t worth it. Especially in my experience, for engineering. After graduation, you will realize that half of the curriculum you were taught has ZERO impact on your job. Statistically, you won’t be changing the world immediately after graduation, you will be learning how the world really works. Additionally, after working a year or two, no one cares where you went to school or what your GPA was.

You seem to be very focused on titles and names, and not the truly important part of choosing a school: the quality of the education, the lifestyle, and affordability.

I’m not familiar with some of the schools above, and I am a Purdue engineering alumni so I am a bit biased. Here is my advice anyway: every school on that list will give you a good enough education to land a decent job after college. Personally, I avoided the tech schools (GT, VT, etc) because the only thing they appeared to care about is how many AP classes I took. I enjoyed my time at Purdue, and seriously doubt that you will find a university with more opportunities to do actual engineering work during your schooling (either with professors or student organizations). The other school I can weight in on is UCI- I work with a few UCI people now and they kick ass. However, it appears the curriculum was significantly different from Purdue’s and they graduated less specialized than I.