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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any top 100 CS school is fine if you want to get any job.

If a student wants to get the top jobs, then yes the school matters because otherwise, the student isn't getting recruited out of college for internships and jobs, and the first job carries over to the later jobs.

That's simply how it is. CS is less prestige-focused than finance and business. However, stop acting like a student from a relatively unknown school has the same job opportunities as a student from CMU or Berkeley.

Even after getting the job, the salary compensation is different for students recruited from top schools vs. those from the rest. Tech companies fight for top talent and they use top schools as a proxy.

This "school you go to doesn't matter" schtick is tiring. Yes, if you simply want a paper with a Bachelors written on it perhaps. Or you want a simple life and don't mind earning less. But otherwise, it matters so please stop lying to the parents of prospective students.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]As a data point, my DD just graduated in computer science from Emory University which is ranked 71in your list and she got offers from Amazon, Google and a few other companies for top salaries. If you are a good student,you will do well. But she did send out 150 resumes.[/quote]

To the top poster quoted above: [b]You’re a dope.[/b] Top 100 ranked CS schools are great.[/quote]
Emory is a top 25 ranked private university, not an unknown regional public. How exactly does that disprove the point [b]at all[/b]?

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71st ranked in CS. Not a top 25 school. That's the point. The first poster was claiming that top 100 was essentially irrelevant, referencing the tippy top schools CMU and Berkeley. That people saying top 100 are great is a "schtick" that "is tiring". Well that's just plain wrong for CS.[/quote]
Do you lack basic reading comprehension or are you just an idiot?

The post states:
[quote]That's simply how it is. CS is less prestige-focused than finance and business. However, stop acting like a student from a relatively unknown school has the same job opportunities as a student from CMU or Berkeley.
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It compares relatively unknown schools like say, Central Illinois University, against schools like CMU or Berkeley.

Emory is not an unknown school. [/quote]
This discussion is about the top 100, not every school offering CS. Try as I might, I cannot find Central Illinois University in that list of top 100.[/quote]
Yet you will see schools like Michigan Technological University, UT at Knoxville, UT at Dallas, University of Tenessee at Knoxville, Colorado State University, etc. on this list. The recruiting from top jobs paying top compensation at these schools does not exist compared to the top 10-20.

So no, not "any school in the top 100" is fine, if you want the top jobs. If you want a simple life making the median salary, it is. [/quote]

“Yet you will see schools like Michigan Technological University, UT at Knoxville, UT at Dallas, University of Tenessee at Knoxville, Colorado State University, etc. on this list. The recruiting from top jobs paying top compensation at these schools does not exist compared to the top 10-20”

So I guess you might as well attend any of the above schools since they are not any better than UVA in CS.

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Is UVA an unknown school? [/quote]

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