Hey everyone!
I am an international student from Belarus. I applied to a bunch of schools in the US this year, some of them very selective, others not so. I feel that only some of the less selective schools of my list can accept me given that I need a full ride. So suppose I got accepted by, say, Franklin & Marshall, Skidmore and Macalester, and I have to make a decision: one of these US colleges or Warsaw University of Technology.
It’s hard for me to choose. Receiving an education in the US is my dream. I would love studying in English rather than in Polish, and I believe that there are more opportunities (internships) in the US, salaries are higher. But what about the quality of education? Top-notch Polish university is a decent school, but is it better for my goals than the colleges listed above?
Which one would you choose for computer science, and why?
bumpity-bump
Where do you want to work post grad?
Did you list your goals?
Also wait to see what your choices are first.
Frankly all three colleges you list are quite good and would only be SLIGHTLY below Warsaw UT. The cs content will be higher at Warsaw but everything else will be better at Ma c, F&M, etc. ( quality of life, diversity, opportunities… ) So ultimately there won’t be a wrong choice 
It really depends on if you want to live in the US or not. Look at price as well. US schools have good quality of education, the schools you’re looking at aren’t bad.
@MYOS1634, I’m not even sure how you can compare. The type of instruction and curriculum likely is very different and while pretty much no one in the US would have heard of Warsaw UT, the same is likely true of those LACs in Europe.
@XCjunior2016 @PurpleTitan
In the end, I would rather work as a programmer in the US than in Poland.
Thank you for your responses, the choice is now obvious. It inly remains to wait for the decisions to be released.
No Warsaw UT is pretty good.
But it’s like a commuter school on steroids. There’s no campus per se, just a group a (often historical) buildings. Out of 36,000 students, only about 5,000 live in university residences. It’s kind of hard to compare because it’s a highly technical curriculum without gen eds, which can please some but restrict others.
Although Macalester isn’t a college one might think of immediately when thinking of CS, I think the proximity to so many Fortune 500 and the network there offsets that. It could of course prove frustrating to someone hoping to have 100% CS 100% time and/or who doesn’t like cold weather or cities.
@MYOS1634, the OP is from Belarus. I don’t think he’s a stranger to cold weather. And of the 3, yes, I think Macalester has the best location for networking.
However, he should know that landing a job as a foreigner in the US will be tougher (but a fully-funded grad program may be an option if he does well at the LAC in the US).
"Landing a job as a foreigner in u.s. tougher…’’
Yup, not many foreigners working in stem in the u.s.