College with good CS program

<p>Hi. I'm a senior who is looking for colleges that have good computer science programs. I also prefer public colleges than privates beacuse of financial stuffs. If anyone knows some good colleges for CS, please tell me!!!!!!! Thanks alot :)</p>

<p>PS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO, BUT it would be very nice if u can also tell me what the average ACT or SAT score is/was of the recommended college(s).</p>

<p>This has been posted many times in the past. The best ones are generally cited to be Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University.</p>

<p>Gourman Report computer science undergrad rankings (from collegehelp)</p>

<p>MIT
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Cornell
U Illinios UC
UCLA
Yale
Caltech
U Texas Austin
U Wisconsin Madison
U Maryland CP
Princeton
U Washington
USC
SUNY Stony Brook
Brown
Georgia Tech
U Penn
U Rochester
NYU
U Minnesota
U Utah
Columbia
Ohio State
Rice
Duke
Northwestern
SUNY Buffalo
U Pittsburgh
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
U Mass Amherst
Rutgers NB
Indiana U Bloomington
Penn State UP
UC Santa Barbara
Syracuse
Iowa St
RPI
UVA
U Michigan AA
U Iowa
U Conn
Southern Methodist
US Naval Acad
US Military Acad
U Houston
U Kansas
Washington U St Louis
Mich St
Stevens Inst
Case Western
Texas A&M
U Oklahoma
Kansas State
Vanderbilt
Washington State</p>

<p>And here's the old NRC ranking in CS:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area29%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html#area29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>These lists are just to give you some ideas. </p>

<p>You can look up the average SAT/ACT under the "SAT, AP, CLEP" section of collegeboard.com -- do a search of the college.</p>

<p>Good luck. =]</p>