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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Just stop. The layoffs were less than 1%.
The tech industry needs people not the other way around and will for years to come.

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+1. My husband can't find Cloud architects and others to fill roles, and the ones he can find demand exorbitant salaries--this is for government contracts (not DOD).  
[b]If your student is already experienced in CS/programming as a high schooler he may be more interested in comparing CS catalogs at the individual schools. A student going into college starting from the beginning may not want the more specialized upper level classes.[/b] [/quote]

This seems significant to me. I have a relative who is a very smart kid who was admitted to a “Tech” university with a top ranked CS department. They have struggled a bit, and while they’ve done ok, they’re discouraged, because they’ve found that a large number (majority?) of the students in the major are those who had a LOT of experience in HS — the types that summer jobs coding or spent their summers coding “for fun.” The bit from a previous poster about “learning the languages elsewhere” sounds true.  At least at this student’s school, it seems that it is expected that you will have a certain baseline of knowledge coming in, and those kids who have limited previous experience are at a disadvantage. That may be true to some degree everywhere, I suspect it would be less prevalent at a smaller, less purely tech-focused university. [/quote]

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