Best colleges for computer science program

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am wondering what you guys think of different computer science programs at various colleges. Princeton is currently my top school (not especially because of computer science, but because of its overall appeal). Which schools have the strongest computer science programs? Is MIT any good? Carnegie Mellon? Please let me know what you guys think.</p>

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<p>CM, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC.....</p>

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<p>The top 4 are CMU, MIT, Berkeley, and Stanford. Other good ones are U Washington, Princeton, Michigan, GT, Cornell, UT Austin, CalTech</p>

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<p>I concur with GatorEng23.</p>

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<p>Search the forum. There are tons of other threads on this topic. I have already posted my opinion about Carnegie Mellon (the CS program is great!).</p>

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<p>M.I.T. DUH!
What else besides the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could produce this guy?</p>

<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Consider attending a college / program that is more focused on UG CS such as Brown or even your State U. Then attend MIT, CMU, etc...as a grad student since that's when their excellence will really benefit you.</p>

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<p>Computer Science rankings from Gourman Report:
MIT
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Cornell
U Illinois
UCLA
Yale
Caltech
U Texas Austin
Wisconsin
Maryland College Park
Princeton
u Washington
USC
SUNY Stony Brook
Brown
Georgia Tech
U penn
U Rochester
NYU
Minnesota
U Utah
Columbia</p>

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<p>thanks a lot</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon</p>

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Carnegie Mellon

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Meh.. Maybe if you want to do something with robots...Oh wait, they got spanked by Stanford! Oh SNAPS!</p>

<p>.. Just kidding... CMU is a great school for Computer Science.</p>

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<p>Oh, man, don't get Weird Al trivia wrong on a site where a bunch of CS majors will respond! </p>

<p>Weird Al did NOT got to MIT. He went to Cal Poly SLO and majored in architecture. <a href="http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm&lt;/a> He was HS valedictorian and graduated two years early. He did math and debate in HS. Parents beware!! :)</p>

<p>Disclaimer: Weird Al fans live at my house...kids and adults</p>

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<p>stony brook and maryland you can probably get full ride... and they're way up there for cs</p>

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<p>
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Oh, man, don't get Weird Al trivia wrong on a site where a bunch of CS majors will respond!</p>

<p>Weird Al did NOT got to MIT. He went to Cal Poly SLO and majored in architecture. <a href="http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm&lt;/a> He was HS valedictorian and graduated two years early. He did math and debate in HS. Parents beware!!</p>

<p>Disclaimer: Weird Al fans live at my house...kids and adults

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Yeah, but that's not Weird Al in that video.</p>

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<p>i don't know which would be the top school grade-wise and such, but i suggest finding a school in an area that is computer-science oriented, like the bay area [e.g.: UCB]</p>

<p>that way, you can land some good internships. my dad works at Adobe and they always get interns and then make them job offers once they graduate, so, i guess location does matter.</p>

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<p>Weird Al also wrote one of his first songs in the bathroom at UCR because he liked the acoustics. Thats probably why they call him Weird Al</p>