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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having good engineering schools is overrated (especially for undergrads). All you really need is fairly good CS at this point.[/quote]

Having good engineering is still very important. The new wave of self-driving cars will need mechanical engineers, and the new wave of bodily replacements/enhancements will need biomedical engineers. Of course CS is vital in all of that too but the engineers are still needed[/quote]

Engineering isn't all that important to being a great university though. It is why there are specialty universities to fill that niche. At the undergrad level, CS is what a school [i]needs[/i]. Not having a strong CS program is a major issue given the shift in majors happening (and yes, some old school boomer departments might call it computer engineering).[/quote]

Huh? Engineering is fundamental to a top undergrad school. It's no coincidence that generally the best CS schools also have strong engineering programs.[/quote]

You could say the same thing about econ and CS rather than engineering. Thinking about it, that might actually be more true and covers more top CS programs too!

The bigger point is having great engineering isn't central to being an excellent college or having a strong CS department. You can't really succeed as a college period without CS now (the top universities and SLACs caught on pretty quickly), which is a huge shift from when a lot of this crowd was in school.[/quote]

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