<p>I'm starting my list and was wondering which schools have pretty strong comp sci, math, and humanities departments. I would also prefer:
In or near a large city
Not too "crunchy"
East coast or Cali
More on the intellectual side</p>
<p>If it helps, I love UChicago. Nothing too techy, though.</p>
<p>Haverford/Swarthmore (Swat may be too "crunchy" for your liking, Pomona, Columbia, Tufts, University of Rochester, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Those schools are all probably reaches, but they are a start.</p>
<p>Yale, is pretty humanities based i think.</p>
<p>Stanford? Except its not really urban!</p>
<p>UChicago is great for humanities and math... but it's comp sci department is rather lackluster. I don't think I've met a single comp sci major ever here. Apparently if you're a comp sci major, you take lots of courses courses at UIUC because they have one of the best comp sci departments in the country.</p>
<p>^^ I know a couple of CS majors at Chicago. I can't really say much about the program one way or another.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>I was already looking at Rochester, but not Tufts. Pomona looks nice, but Berkeley seems too... competitive. Does anyone know about the cs dept there?</p>
<p>Actually, I don't mind if the cs at Chicago is "lackluster". I think the rest adequately makes up for it :).</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon of course.</p>
<p>Might depend on where one draws the lines between "pretty strong" and merely "decent"</p>
<p>JHU, Penn, Columbia, Brown come to mind</p>
<p>Berkeley!!</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>I'm curious about this too.</p>
<p>Brown and URochester both have very solid CS Departments and plenty of very nice options for humanities classes as well. Pretty much all the Ivy's have some form of a CS department as well and great humanities. Somewhere like Middlebury would be nice too if you want more of a focus on the humanities.</p>
<p>I would have to say Carnegie Mellon University as well. Besides being nationally renowned for its computer science and robotics programs, its also in a nice residential urban location in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, which is walking distance to Oakland, the adjacent college neighborhood dominated by the University of Pittsburgh. By the way, I have never heard "crunchy" used as a descriptor for colleges, can somebody fill me in?</p>
<p>I've heard good things about Princeton's CompSci department from friends, but the school isn't urban and isn't closer to a city than the other schools mentioned.</p>
<p>Berkeley -- in the (urban) city of Berkeley, right near San Francisco, intellectual / academically intense, top CS department.</p>
<p>"Nothing too techy, though."</p>
<p>I'd say that pretty much takes out CMU, it's about as techy as you can get without having "technology" or "polytechnic" in the name...</p>
<p>Tufts and Holy Cross.</p>
<p>Notre Dame leads the nation in National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships this decade, with 25% more than Harvard, the closest competitor among private universities.</p>
<p>ND's math department is decent, considered top quarter of schools with doctoral programs.</p>
<p>Chicago computer science isn't lackluster!</p>
<p>one notable professor does not make a department stellar. I go to Chicago, as I assume you do by your name, and you have to admit that it is overshadowed by just about every other department. It's not horrendous by any means, but in the pantheon of departments it comes out as one of the more lackluster.</p>
<p>It just occurred to me that U Chicago has some excellent computer science resources that you should know about: we're across the street from the Toyota Technical Institute, a leading computer science research center.</p>
<p>Toyota</a> Technological Institute at Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>I don't know much about this place, but I know there are some extremely famous people on the faculty, including mathematician Stephen Smale.</p>