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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big school = better exposure to industry and research, which can be enriching. I remember on CS professor I had, on the last day of class, would show us the stuff he was working on. That was super-cool and also motivating.

Small school = possibly closer interaction with faculty. If they get a balanced education, for example they can write or present well, even better.

There's a shortage of CS people and that's not going to change, so job prospects good either way.[/quote]

Is there still a shortage of CS folks?  Tech companies have laid off tons of thousands in the past few months.[/quote]

Tech person here. Yes, there's a shortage, and that's going to remain the trend.

Think of it this way: are computers more or less involved in life than 5 or 10 years ago? That trend isn't changing. That's creating more and more demand for people with IT skills.[/quote]

Yeah, and more than that, the way we interact with computers is changing. Programming is important but so are charts and graphs and visualization of data. Math is very important but so is presentations of ideas and communication between teams.

Everything used to be dependent on things like Data structures and Discrete Mathematics but now the path forward has a lot more roads. I think it's just key that people don't think that CS is only for code coders or that if they don't have some particular movie trope of CS jobs. That they're not in tech[/quote]

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