<p>How good are the Comp Sci and Physics programs at Richmond? Do the students who graduate with either subject as a major go on to work in good jobs or good graduate schools?</p>
<p><a href="http://cs.richmond.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://cs.richmond.edu/</a>
<a href="http://mathcs.richmond.edu/news/news9.htm%5B/url%5D">http://mathcs.richmond.edu/news/news9.htm</a>
<a href="http://physics.richmond.edu/special/research.htm%5B/url%5D">http://physics.richmond.edu/special/research.htm</a>
<a href="http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/richmondnow/2007/05/goldwater.html%5B/url%5D">http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/richmondnow/2007/05/goldwater.html</a></p>
<p>Those links should give you plenty of reading material. The first is our CS department. At the bottom of the link is a list of places students have gone on to after UR. The next discusses the number of Goldwater Scholars we've had in the CS department. The third link shows you some recent student work in physics, along with a lot of information. Our sciences have been a focus for the past 5 or so years, and they have an amazing new building to work out of. The last link is our most recent announcement this past May of our latest three Goldwater Scholars. This past year, only 317 awards were given out, and we claimed three of them.</p>
<p>wow thanks Spiders05. excellent links!!</p>
<p>Not really knowledgeable, but let me add ... the science bldg. is one of the nicest, best designed I've seen anywhere. Spectacular, current, attractive. Don't know if science students learn anything, but at least they should enjoy their surroundings.</p>
<p>I'm a senior physics major at UR, and I love the program here. It's flexible, fun, and definitely challenging. The faculty are always around and willing to help, and always have undergraduate research assistants - I had my first research opportunity at the end of my very first semester freshman year!
As far as grad schools go, we've had several people do 3-2 programs that we have here between UR and more engineering-geared schools (ex: UVa). I know that recent grads since I've been here, and from a few years before, we've had grads go to U. of Kentucky, Hopkins, UVa., Berkeley, Princeton, and U. of Chicago. Jobs have been varied, depending on what each individual wanted to go into - we've had some people go into product development, research, teaching... I've even heard tell of a physics major from years past going to work for an investment firm on Wall Street, because he was so good at partial differential equations, which are apparently really useful for the predictions they try to make about the market.
Aside from all that, one of the best things about Richmond is that you really get involved with all aspects of campus life. There aren't a bunch of graduate students teaching your classes or doing the research you wish you could do - it's all you and your professors working on real problems together.
And yes, the Gottwald Science Center (or G-Wald, as it is sometimes affectionately called) is beautiful and comfortable and amazingly well furnished.</p>