Don't just check the league tables for the best Engineering school. After three years of study, when you are so young, you may change your mind on which career you want to pursue afterwards.
Make a compromise and go to a good engineering school that will also help you do something else if things change.
For example the company i work for, when appliing for a job there, it is very advantageous to have gone to a top university and studied a numerical degree (this includes engineering). In the UK there are about eight on this list (Cambridge and Oxford being the obvious two).
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