CS major, UVA Arts & scienses school or Engineering school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

I’m a UVA CS grad, but GT is definitely the best of that bunch for CS. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

DD got her CS at UVA in C&S, and DS got his CS also at UVA in engineering school. Both got similar offers with their degrees. Engineering schools is about $20k+ more expensive over the 4 years, though DS did his degree in 3 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

Tech CS / although I really don’t know anything about Georgia Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares if BA or BS especially after a few years of work.

Ok but what about entry level jobs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD got her CS at UVA in C&S, and DS got his CS also at UVA in engineering school. Both got similar offers with their degrees. Engineering schools is about $20k+ more expensive over the 4 years, though DS did his degree in 3 years.

correction "DD got her CS at UVA in College of Arts & Sciences"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares if BA or BS especially after a few years of work.

Ok but what about entry level jobs?

If you go to any of the four options listed in CS and graduate you will have many entry-level options and any slight difference is less importance than a) the goodness of fit for student of the degree, b)cost of getting the degree. I agree that if you go to a lower end school, a BS is a more important indicator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

Georgia Tech has a stronger CS program. But just for DC area job market and grad school acceptance, there is not a whole lot of difference among the 4.

https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/yixin-sun

UVA, BACS
Princeton, PhD in CS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people in tech are snobby about BS vs. BA.

Why handicap yourself? The BS is the stronger signaling device in the job market. If you want to show that you have soft skills, list some of your electives.

However, if you'd rather take a broad range of electives outside of the sciences, maybe engineering school isn't for you?

The signal is important, but so is getting what you want out of college.

[Anonymous]

Georgia Tech CS if tuition is no factor. Said as a UVA CS Eng. If you must go to UVA, pick C. of A&S-the deans and directors are way better. First time they integrated the maths so we could take a&s were the best math classes I took there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

GT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

GT

I would pick UVA CS Eng. For the prestige and the flexibility in case I have to change to a different major, e.g. commerce.

[Anonymous]

In state UVA A&S for CS. IIRC SEAS CS grads make a little more straight out of undergrad but not enough to make up for the substantial difference in COA. FWiW anecdotally most of the CS BA in A&S seem happier than their CS SEAS counterparts.

GT is better, but not enough to make up the difference in tuition. Do well in UVA CS BA and most doors will be open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you pick for the DC area job market or for grad school acceptance:
UVA CS Eng
UVA CS A&S
VTech CS
Georgia Tech CS

If tuition is not a factor just pure choice between these 4?

Georgia Tech by some margin. If you are restricting yourself to DC area, though, you are taking out a lot of potential upside to your education.

[Anonymous]

My kid is currently in CS at UVA Engineering school. He said that the grads coming out of the engineering school are more technical / hard core coding vs. the arts & sciences CS. Many students end up in similar job with more of the engineering grads going to more technical positions (coding) and the arts & sciences grads going into consulting or less technical positions (e.g., testing, platform configuration type positions).

[Anonymous]

Maybe see where your child gets in first? Last year’s entering class at UVA had a 75th percentile goa if 4.48 and an ACT of 34. If you are not hooked or first generation etc you need to be aiming above the 75th percentile.