Computer Science majors, where are they applying?

[Anonymous]

NC state

[Anonymous]

Stevens, Rensselaer, Lehigh, yes to NC State, all good RoI

[Anonymous]

Waterloo!

[Anonymous]

Waterloo (but your kid must be self-directed and is absolutely sure of CS). Quant/FAANG/BigN hunt there. Not great, I hear, for quality of life but fantastic reputation/outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Cal Poly SLO (hard admit for CS esp OOS) and Harvey Mudd (hard admit)

[Anonymous]

Case Western

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CU Boulder would be a safety. So would UPitt.

If he doesn't get into a good program, he should get a bunch of certs if he is a US Citizen. He can meet people at conventions, coding academies, internships, hackathons, etc.-he needs team skills for code reviews, pair programming, etc. If you are both grads, he may get bonus points for "legacy" status. Just make sure if he has a weak dept he is good at independent study.

Is CUBoulder really considered weak for CS? I think of it as a public Ivy in terms of overall reputation.

[Anonymous]

Cornell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Cornell is already ranked #5 in undergrad CS (USNWR).

OP was looking alternatives outside the top 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell

Cornell is already ranked #5 in undergrad CS (USNWR).

OP was looking alternatives outside the top 10.

Did not realize it was ranked that high..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CU Boulder would be a safety. So would UPitt.

If he doesn't get into a good program, he should get a bunch of certs if he is a US Citizen. He can meet people at conventions, coding academies, internships, hackathons, etc.-he needs team skills for code reviews, pair programming, etc. If you are both grads, he may get bonus points for "legacy" status. Just make sure if he has a weak dept he is good at independent study.

Is CUBoulder really considered weak for CS? I think of it as a public Ivy in terms of overall reputation.

I don't know about "public ivy", but from research I've done, they appear to have a strong CS program

[Anonymous]

WashU of course. With all the 65% return in endowment and massive $$$ they'll be stealing star professors from Stanford, MIT, and Caltech in no time and the CS department will jump from #49 to #9 in no time. All the brightest kids are heading to STL now AS A FACT.

[Anonymous]

This list?



Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


Stanford University
Stanford, CA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
#1 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
#5 in Computer Science


Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
#6 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Washington
Seattle, WA
#6 in Computer Science (tie)


Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
#8 in Computer Science (tie)



Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
#8 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Texas--Austin
Austin, TX
#10 in Computer Science


California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
#11 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
#11 in Computer Science (tie)


Columbia University
New York, NY
#13 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
#13 in Computer Science (tie)



University of Wisconsin--Madison
Madison, WI
#13 in Computer Science (tie)

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
#16 in Computer Science (tie)

University of California--San Diego
La Jolla, CA
#16 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Maryland--College Park
College Park, MD
#16 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
#19 in Computer Science


Purdue University--West Lafayette
West Lafayette, IN
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Rice University
Houston, TX
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Massachusetts--Amherst
Amherst, MA
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Yale University
New Haven, CT
#20 in Computer Science (tie)


Brown University
Providence, RI
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


Duke University
Durham, NC
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
#25 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
#29 in Computer Science


New York University
New York, NY
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
#30 in Computer Science (tie)



Pennsylvania State University--University Park
University Park, PA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Irvine
Irvine, CA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
#30 in Computer Science (tie)


Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick
Piscataway, NJ
#37 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Davis
Davis, CA
#37 in Computer Science (tie)


University of California--Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
#37 in Computer Science (tie)

[Anonymous]

How about WPI? https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/computer-science

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cal Poly SLO (hard admit for CS esp OOS) and Harvey Mudd (hard admit)

If you look at Harvey Mudd, look at Rose-Hulman too. Rose admit rates much higher than Mudd (useful if DS is shut out from the top 10), both schools considered outstanding in general engineering (incl. CS in that).