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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Believe it or not, but the University of Tulsa has carved out a niche in cyber security.  If you want to keep options open, shoot for the best CS program you can.[/quote]
This.  Cybersecurity is evolving very rapidly right now, and I anticipate there to be a lot more fragmentation in the future.  IoT is going to be a game changer in terms of how people think about cybersecurity in critical infrastructure...actually, it already is, but most people are not thinking about it right now (but I digress).

I work in cybersecurity for IoT applications (it's not my only focus, but falls under my responsibilities), and right now I pretty much don't care about where people went to school so much as what they've done and whether they can intelligently articulate some of the unique concerns.  The hands-down best person I know in this area who is not very senior went to UC-Irvine and got a physics degree.  But he's basically a genius who never stops learning and expanding his skills.  From today's perspective, the most important hting is for your kid to be able to get a solid programming foundation that he can leverage to a job at a company or agency where he'll be working on cybersecurity (probably starting with an internship as well).  If your kid is very smart and looking for something more than just a journeyman type position making sure standards are met, then too narrow a focus on cybersecurity will be detrimental.  He'll need exposure to the bigger picture of how IT is being applied in the world...any of the elite tech schools (MIT, Stanford, CalTech) will give him that as will solid programs at other good schools.[/quote]

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