<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>From Where Can I find Rankings???? post number 2</p>
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Computer Science Programs
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?
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<p>Excluding highly selective, very large and tech schools, my picks are University of Rochester, Brandeis, Macalester, George Washington, America U and Trinity College.</p>
<p>Very good Computer Science Schools cost lots of money to develop that is why most of these schools are large research schools like Stanford, MIT, or large state universities like UC Berkeley or U of Illinois-Urbana The vast majority of small liberal arts schools can usually only afford 3 to 5 faculty members. The exception to these I found are Harvey Mudd, University of Tulsa and Rice University. My pick for a great CS school though is Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the good suggestions - I didn't know that Macalester has a good CS program - will explore further - the culture there might really be a good fit for S. Also - haven't heard of U of Tulsa - will look into that. Other suggestions are along lines I've been thinking - especially Rice & Harvey Mudd (S's favorite - but very hard to get into). Agree that Carnegie Mellon is an excellent school - S thinks it might be too cutthroat. True? Byrdman - are you suggesting the Trinity in Connecticut?</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon is not a cutthroat school just very demanding. If your son is accepted into the CMU computer science program over 90%+ of the students graduate in computer science. My son would say that he works extremely hard but there are plenty of CS students that help one another with programming problems. He has kept in contact with many of his peers this summer. They had approximately 130 students in his freshman CS class. Good luck. There are number of good CS school out there.</p>