<p>Excluding HYPSM and other Ivies (ultra selective), large state schools (not the best undergraduate experience), and tech schools (not well-rounded), what are the best schools for Computer Science? I know that Carnegie Mellon is good - but any others?</p>
<p>wow you just excluded alot of schools i was about to mention lol...</p>
<p>ivy- cornell, princeton
state - UCB, UW, UCSD
tech - Georgia Tech</p>
<p>lol. im like totally out of ideas now.</p>
<p>University of Michigan, Illiniois, and Purdue are great, Ranked around 20ish.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon is pretty much a tech school.</p>
<p>Maybe USC and Rice. Northwestern could be another one, but I'm not too sure about its CS program.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon CSci is one of the most selective in the country (school of computer science middle 50 math sat is 740-800). So if youre looking for an elite program but not a large public the only school I could reccomend would be Harvey Mudd, but you aren't going to get research opportunities there.</p>
<p>thanks - especially for USC & Rice. Any others?</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is a highly selective (and self-selected) tech LAC; it benefits from the Claremont consortium in rounding out the liberal arts offerings. Williams (another top LAC, consistently ranked #1 or 2), University of Rochester (small uni), Grinnell (less selective but still top LAC in Midwest), and Haverford (selective LAC) or Bryn Mawr if you're female (shares CS dept. w/ Haverford) are also strong in CS.</p>
<p>Rice, as mentioned</p>
<p>and the University of Chicago</p>
<p>UCal Berkeley</p>
<p>1 Stanford 4.97
2 MIT 4.91
3 Cal Berkeley 4.88
4 Carnegie Mellon 4.76
5 Cornell 4.64
6 Princeton 4.31
7 Texas 4.18
8 Illinois 4.09
9 Washington 4.04
10 Wisconsin 4.00
11 Harvard 3.94
12 Cal Tech 3.93
13 Brown 3.86
14 Yale 3.73
15 UCLA 3.73
16 Maryland 3.69
17 NYU 3.60
18 Massachusetts 3.59
19 Rice 3.55
20 Southern Cal 3.52
21 Michigan 3.49
22 Columbia 3.45
23 Cal San Diego 3.45
24 Penn 3.31
25 Chicago 3.31
26 Purdue 3.28
27 Rutgers 3.25
28 Duke 3.17
29 North Carolina 3.16
30 Rochester 3.13
31 SUNY Stony Brook 3.12
32 Georgia Tech 3.10
33 Arizona 3.05
34 Cal Irvine 3.03
35 Virginia 3.02
36 Indiana 3.00
37 Johns Hopkins 2.96
38 Northwestern 2.93
39 Ohio State 2.92
40 Utah 2.90
41 Colorado 2.90
42 Oregon Tech 2.83
43 Pittsburgh 2.81
44 Syracuse 2.80
45 Florida 2.70
46 Minnesota 2.67
47 Cal Santa Barbara 2.65
48 RPI 2.63
49 Cal Santa Cruz 2.59
50 Illinois Chicago 2.56
51 Washington (St. Louis) 2.54
52 Michigan State 2.53
53 Penn State 2.52
54 CUNY 2.52
55 Dartmouth College 2.45
56 SUNY Buffalo 2.42
57 Cal Davis 2.42
58 Boston University 2.42
59 North Carolina State 2.36
60 Arizona State 2.33
61 Iowa 2.31
62 Texas A&M 2.30
63 Oregon 2.20
64 Kentucky 2.12
65 VPI 2.10
66 George Washington 2.04
67 Case Western 2.04
68 South Florida 2.03
69 Temple 2.00
70 Oregon State 2.00
71 Southwestern Louisiana 1.92
72 Vanderbilt 1.90
73 Nebraska 1.89
74 Houston 1.85
75 Texas Dallas 1.84
76 LSU 1.81
77 Iowa State 1.81
78 Wayne State 1.80
79 New Mexico State 1.80
80 Washington State 1.78
81 Kansas State 1.75
82 Central Florida 1.71
83 Naval Postgraduate School 1.67
84 Texas Arlington 1.65
85 Kansas 1.62
86 Alabama Huntsville 1.61
87 Old Dominion 1.55
88 Southern Methodist 1.54
89 Maryland Baltimore County 1.54
90 Illinois Tech 1.52
91 Connecticut 1.47
92 South Carolina 1.36
93 North Texas 1.35
94 Florida State 1.35
95 Lehigh 1.32
96 Massachusetts Lowell 1.29
97 Alabama Birmingham 1.29
98 Mississippi State 1.26
99 Kent State 1.25
100 Oklahoma 1.17
101 Tulane 1.14
102 Worcester Polytechnic Inst 1.13
103 Stevens Tech 1.13
104 SUNY Binghamton 1.10
105 Missouri Rolla 1.10
106 New Mexico Mining & Tech 0.52
107 Oklahoma State 0.21</p>
<p>Pick!!!</p>
<p>^ Note the OP's exclusion of large state schools.</p>
<p>why arent large state schools the best undergraduate experience? I thought the opposite..they have the most active social scene and offer the most opportunity....</p>
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<p>Nevertheless Carnegie Mellon also has a top [url=<a href="http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/">http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/</a>] Fine Arts school <a href="with%20outstanding%20architecture,%20design,%20music%20and%20drama%20programs">/url</a>, a very well ranked [url=<a href="http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/">http://www.tepper.cmu.edu/</a>] business school <a href="Tepper">/url</a>, and a highly regarded [url=<a href="http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/">http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/</a>] School of Public Policy and Management <a href="Heinz">/url</a>. CMU also has a [url=<a href="http://www.hss.cmu.edu/">http://www.hss.cmu.edu/</a>] College of Humanities and Social Sciences <a href="H&SS">/url</a> that is not so good, but nonetheless offers most of the traditional majors associated with a "liberal arts" curriculum. Some H&SS departments like psychology and philosophy are actually very good. </p>
<p>Based on the surprisingly broad range of majors offered at CMU, I'd say it is probably less of a "tech school" than, let's say, MIT for example. And there is no doubt that Carnegie Mellon is a world leader in CS and robotics.</p>
<p>Does U Chicago have a good CS department?</p>
<p>Not particularly, lol. and I'm a student here.</p>
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<p>Not having an engineering department makes it a bit difficult to specialize in CS, I suppose.</p>
<p>COlsen - what is the list you posted?</p>
<p>My S feels he might get "lost" in a big state U.</p>
<p>its from the nrc (national ranking committee) or something like that</p>
<p>the thing is, a big state u represents real life, unless he plans on living in a rural town where everyone knows his name, then i suggest he goes to a lac, otherwise he needs to actually experience LIFE. because in reality not every person is a unique little snowflake..</p>
<p>Engineering /=/ CS. Of course, if the OP's S is interested in Computer Engineering, that's a different matter.</p>
<p>COlsen: In many ways, a big state university is a terrible undergrad experience--real life doesn't care about you. To me, the OP seems to be looking for LACs and small undergrad-focused universities.</p>
<p>which is what i just said. and you know what? going from the world revolving around you to the world stepping all over you isnt a lot better. at some point the kid is going to have to grow up. college is the place to do it. (if it already hasnt happened in high school).</p>
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which is what i just said. and you know what? going from the world revolving around you to the world stepping all over you isnt a lot better. at some point the kid is going to have to grow up. college is the place to do it. (if it already hasnt happened in high school).
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<p>That is precisely why I personally dislike LACs. A LAC looks to me pretty much like an extension of High School under a different name. </p>
<p>Of course that is only my opinion; others may think differently.</p>