computer science UNDERGRAD colleges help!!

<p>so i have a few questions regarding undergrad programs at certain schools.</p>

<p>i know sometimes its hard to say but which of the following schools is better in terms of strictly academics( i dont care about setting/sports/diversity or cost, but if you could expand on cost that'd be great) RIT, Northeastern or Purdue? remember for comp sci.</p>

<p>the other schools i was hoping to compare was georgia tech and university of maryland in terms of academics for undergrad and comparetively how hard it is to get into each school.</p>

<p>one last question, should i bother applying for cornell for comp sci if im considering georgia and maryland as possible targets. i know from statistics i dont have a high chance of getting in.</p>

<p>anyone? or at least give me your opinion of any of these colleges, any reply would be appreciated</p>

<p>Why don’t you google “top computer science programs”?
There’s a College Crunch list that looks very close to the
USNWR Computer Engineering List:</p>

<p>MIT
Stanford
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Cornell
UT Austin
UIUC
Princeton
Cal Tech
U of Wash
UW Madison
Harvard
Brown
Yale
UCLA
U of Maryland
Rice
UMich
USC
Columbia</p>

<p>Of the schools you mentioned, Maryland is on the Top 20 list.</p>

<p>Strangely enough I just helped someone else out with the same question - there’s tons of computer science schools around the US and any ‘rankings’ data is skewed at best. you can’t rank that many. and plus, computer science isn’t really like law - not as much emphasis being applied on the educational institution. this site does list ranking factors for them, and has about every CS school in the US listed:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.american-school-search.com/computer-science-schools.html[/url]”>http://www.american-school-search.com/computer-science-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;