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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP - I think it is honestly a very good program because it is not part of an engineering school and so students also have to take part in the liberal arts curriculum. I also believe it is now ranked higher than Mason's CS program[/quote]

Lots of schools have CS in and out of engineering. And even kids at engineering schools have liberal arts core requirements.[/quote]

Yes, but often times you can only get a BS through engineering. [b]A BA is CS is less valuable for the average person.[/b] And yes again about the core requirements, but there are often also a lot of (unneeded) engineering core reqs as well thrown in - UVA engineering's program for example requires multivar, chemistry, intro engineering, intro physics. How is this useful for a software dev??[/quote]

Not true. In broad terms, CS grads end up either building a product/solution(e.g. building a Meta or Salesforce) or implementing a product/solution (e.g. Salesforce implementation, custom development for DOJ, replatforming existing systems).  There are way more jobs in implementation that there are in development and none of them require any level of higher math. Like zero. I've hired self-taught programmers who have done extremely well career-wise.

The cream of the crop CS kids end up working on products at top tier companies and make the big bucks. MIT may send 50+% of their kids into these kinda jobs, while at GMU it may be 5-10%. The remainder work in implementation. Even a BA in CS is overkill for those jobs. Don't get me wrong. These jobs do pay very well.

So, the kid with high-end aspirations needs a BS in CS from a top school or be the top kid at a mediocre school. For the average kid, any CS degree is more than good enough. [/quote]

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