Sichuan University and Xiamen University are both good schools, and they are the signature universities of their respective cities. They are all 985 vice-ministerial universities and "Everest Project" universities.

But if you only look at engineering, the wise choice is obviously to go to Sichuan University. Sichuan University is a comprehensive university of arts and medicine, while Xiamen University is only a university of arts and sciences (chemistry and accounting are the dominant disciplines of Xiamen University). In the university engineering ranking of 20 1 1, Sichuan University ranks 15 in the whole country, and Xiamen University ranks 50th (the engineering strength of Xiamen University may not be as good as that of Fuzhou University in the same province), and the gap is still very large.

Sichuan University is a merger of three national key universities: Laochuan University, Chengdu University of Science and Technology and China University of Western Medicine. Xiamen University did not merge. Xiamen University is equivalent to Laochuan University in the Third Hospital of Sichuan University, with excellent arts and sciences but basically no engineering. However, Sichuan University has also merged with Chengdu University of Technology, with strong engineering ability, which Xiamen University does not have.

Chengdu University of Science and Technology is one of the three national key universities (University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University and Chengdu University of Science and Technology) directly under the China Academy of Sciences. Later, together with Zhejiang University, it was placed under the State Education Commission and became one of the key engineering universities directly under the State Education Commission in 10. Before merging with Sichuan University, Chengdu University of Science and Technology ranked as 1 in national key disciplines, national key laboratories and scientific research funds, and about 10 in national universities of science and technology. Before the merger, Chengdu University of Science and Technology had the strongest comprehensive engineering strength and important indicators in southwest China. Therefore, the engineering courses of Sichuan University can often rank above 10 in the whole country. (Xiamen University is basically a liberal arts university).

However, the dominant disciplines of engineering in Sichuan University are mainly chemical engineering, materials, water conservancy, electric power, polymer, light industry, biomedical engineering, computer and nuclear engineering, and the automation discipline is relatively general (Xi Jiaotong University is recommended in the western region, and Jiaotong University, Southeast University, South University of Technology, etc. are recommended in the eastern region), but it is also obviously better than Xiamen University (Xiamen University's engineering is far less than Sichuan University).

In addition, it depends on your specific major, because automation is an undergraduate major, and there is no corresponding "automation" as a postgraduate discipline or in two disciplines. So your application direction is also one of the basis for choosing a school. If you take the test of power system automation or mechanical design automation, then Sichuan University is a very good choice, especially the power system automation of Sichuan University, which is an old brand, ranking around 10 in the country, and most of the work is in power system units. The mechanical design class of Sichuan University is also good. However, if you take control engineering as a discipline (probably corresponding to the automation undergraduate major), then Sichuan University (and Xiamen University, of course) is not recommended. Xi Jiaotong University, key universities and Guangdong University are recommended in the west, and Jiaotong University, Southeast University and Southern University of Technology are recommended in the east. You can learn more and compare according to the direction you want to apply for.

Back to the landlord's question, of course, choose Sichuan University. In fact, as long as it is a comparison of engineering (Sichuan University and Xiamen University), there is no doubt that Sichuan University basically won Xiamen University.