<p>Can anyone tell me how these two schools compare for computer science such as job opportunities, strength of program, etc.?</p>
<p>go to U california</p>
<p>I was a CS minor, graduated a few years ago. Columbia does pretty well with top tech employers, your Googles and Amazons and Yahoos and so on. A number went to wall street, either as quants, traders, or in IT roles. I knew a bunch of people who went to CS PhD programs. And then there was Ezra Koenig, who is now the frontman of Vampire Weekend.</p>
<p>Depends on what you’re looking to do. CS at Columbia also comes with the benefit of getting a well-rounded education, so you get world-class liberal arts classes whereas at other engineering schools, the liberal-arts stuff might be an under-funded afterthought. Makes a difference if you’re like me and happen to really like history, sociology, law, etc., but your core skills are in science and math.</p>
<p>Neither of them are Stanfords when it comes to computer science, but they’re both very good and as Denzera said their strength is that they are attached to spectacular well-rounded universities.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to get involved in Silicon Valley, then Penn seems to have a networking edge here (thanks in no small part to Wharton and the M&T program). Of course in NYC’s own “Silicon Alley” Columbia naturally is the winner there. So where do you want to go? The workforce? grad school?</p>
<p>I plan on immediately getting a tech job after graduation, not necessarily in Silicon Valley.</p>