<p>I was wondering which of the two schools would be the best bet for a kid who's really interested in computer science. I know that Cornell is higher in the rankings, but does it necessarily mean better job opportunities and better faculty? This is important since I'm not interested in grad school and would like to work at a software company like Microsoft.</p>
<p>If your goal is to go and work for a company like Microsoft after BS then it doesn’t matter whether you go to Brown or Cornell. IMHO, your Ivy tag is not going impress folks at Microsoft. They have equally talented pool of graduates to pick from at nearby University of Washington.</p>
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<p>Companies “like Microsoft” hire people from a wide variety of schools, including Brown, Cornell, and the University of Washington.</p>
<p>I work for a large Bay Area software company; I’ve encountered more Cornell graduates than Brown or UW graduates at work. Their combined numbers are much smaller than the number of Berkeley and Stanford graduates who work there (or the number of IIT graduates, for that matter.)</p>
<p>Cornell is better than Brown but Brown is definitely not bad! They are both great for CS.</p>
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<p>I think they might be very similar in recruitment ops. My daughter did CS at Brown and at 2009 graduation it seemed like 3/4 of the (small) class was going to Microsoft or some to Google and the rest to grad school or research jobs before grad school. Mine applied for PhD programs and is at one now.</p>
<p>I’m sure Cornell has a larger class. I can’t comment on the program because she didn’t look at it (or go there), she just started out interested in science, not CS particularly. </p>
<p>Brown has a famous CS intro program for majors that at leat 6 or 8 people mentioned in the dept grad ceremony as famously changing their major. Those people switched majors after taking it and my dd was one, but didn’t mention it.</p>
<p>The faculty at Brown is excellent. You have incredible access to the faculty and real world research opportunities, it is just about as easy as expressing interest, to get involved. And they have a program called UTRA to fund student research. Undergrads are vital to the prof’s research projects becasue the grad school is small. You will get great experience. The department is really tight.</p>
<p>Don’t underestimate the freedom that Brown open curriculum gives you.</p>
<p>CS is a strong dept at Brown, and they pair with other strong depts such as Applied Science, Econ and Bio for concentrations.</p>