Best college for kid interested in cyber security and programming
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Anonymous
| Only a freshmen but starting to develop strong interest in this area. Likes Robotics and is taking advanced math classes and programming. What colleges will likely be on his radar when the time comes? Any suggestions for plotting the next few years? |
Anonymous
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The service academies all have excellent cyber security/computer science programs. I believe they all have STEM summer programs for high schoo students which have a selective application process.
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Anonymous
| U of MD has a great program as this is the best area to have a security clearance. If he wants to do cyber security tell him he better watch the drugs/alcohol and behavior as clearances look many years back. Reality is if you are smart and good at what you do, it doesn't matter where you go to school for IT. My husband went to a no name crappy college and is doing well now. He would have done the same if he had gone to any other school. |
Anonymous
| UMD |
Anonymous
| Naval Academy is one of the best. Stanford, MIT. |
Anonymous
| UMBC |
Anonymous
Also, USMA and USAFA. They are on the cutting edge in terms of defense. |
Anonymous
UMBC is a terrible campus and College Park is much better. |
Anonymous
LOL. College Park is ghetto. UMBC looks and feels like a college. |
Anonymous
Humm... ok. College Park used to be ghetto but its very nice now. |
Anonymous
Except for a few majors college park does not have, UMBC is for kids who don't get into college park. |
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If you live in Virginia GMU or Virginia tech.
If you live in Maryland, Maryland College |
Anonymous
| U.Md has installations of Homeland Security and NSA on campus plus one of the nations finest computer science departments. |
Anonymous
| UMD, CMU, Berkeley, and MIT would be my top choices. |
Anonymous
| MIT |