<p>Which schools have the very best computer science undergraduate programs? I want top-notch education and plan on working for majors companies as a software engineer. Without considering other factors, which colleges have the best and most difficult cs undergrad program?</p>
<p>Stanford CS, MIT EECS, U of Toronto CS, UC Berkeley EECS, U of Columbia CS, Carnegie Mellon CS.</p>
<p>UIUC as well.</p>
<p>Why no Caltech?</p>
<p>Add University of Chicago and Cornell.</p>
<p>Princetonnnn</p>
<p>Oh, and Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>How about in the South, provided that includes Virginia down to Fl and over to Texas?</p>
<p>Most difficult: Cornell. Way too much theory… Good school tho. For South, UNC, NC State, Ga Tech… VA Tech of course…</p>
<p>University of Washington.
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<p>Okay guys. Get ready for a list. Could you <em>please</em> rank these schools?</p>
<p>NC State
Vandy
Duke
UNC
Emory
UGA
Mercer
Wake Forest
MIT</p>
<p>I’m thinking its:
MIT
NC State
UNC
Duke
Vandy
Wake Forest
Emory
UGA
Mercer
but i’m not sur</p>
<p>Here’s my ranking of those schools:</p>
<p>Duke
Emory
Mercer
MIT
NC State
UGA
UNC
Vandy
Wake Forrest </p>
<p>I just did it alphabetically. Hope it helps.</p>
<p>You probably want to drop Emory for CS. Perhaps replace it with Georgia Tech or Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>There’s the Big Four: MIT, Stanford, UCB, and CMU, then you have the rest of the field. Cornell, U Washington, Georgia Tech, and Princeton have very good programs as well. I’m biased but I would say consider UCLA even though it’s not Top 10.</p>
<p>The only computer science programs in “the South” that are of the same caliber or close to the same caliber as Carnegie Mellon or MIT are Georgia Tech and UT Austin, if you consider Texas the South (I don’t).</p>
<p>Umdcp has a highly ranked cs program.
They are a short train ride from dc. And just north of the mason Dixon line.</p>
<p>I don’t want to go to GT, although they do have a great program. Not my cup of tea, at all.</p>
<p>Why do I not see Brown on the list anywhere?? It has one of the top UG CS programs in the nation. Many have gone off to lead successful lives. I do believe a large portion end up working at Pixar which accounts for the resemblance of Brown University’s campus and that of the one in Monsters University. ^^;</p>
<p>I agree, Brown is really underrated. Its CS program is probably the best in the Ivy League, but b/c it is such a small school and there aren’t too many UG rankings, Brown isn’t as high as some of the other schools in Grad school ranks. Dartmouth actually has a decent CS program too but its Grad school rank is way down there because it is another small, undergraduate focused Ivy.</p>
<p>The best CS programs are located in the south. Believe it or not.</p>