OOS for all three, cost isn’t a major factor, definitely planning on majoring in Computer Science(won’t be switching)
Any insight would be appreciated!
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Uwisconsin. It’s the strongest for CS.
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They’re all good. I’d compare the various programs and see if any has a specialty track you’re interested in. If they don’t then look at the list of available classes and see if one of the schools has more courses that you’re interested in. Class size was always a big deal to me, although my guess is that since these are all large universities, they’ll all have large classes at first.
Otherwise, there’s not a lot to distinguish between CS at large schools. You sit in a big lecture hall absorbing about 5% of what the professor is saying. Then you go off and do the homework, which is where you really learn, or at least get a faint grasp of, the concepts being taught.
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I’d say Wisconsin and UVa CS are better, but it also matters what part of the country you want to end up in after graduation. Any preference?
And fit matters too. UVa has a culture that some people love and some people hate. Wisconsin is also in a great college town like UVa but without the polarizing culture. Madtown is freezing in the winter but so beautiful. Irvine is an OC suburb. Traditionally the best climate but now CA has forest fires.
I don’t have a preference regarding where I want to go after graduation. I plan on going to grad school after, how do these schools compare in that aspect?
Grad school for CS? Like a PhD? Otherwise, why?
Wisconsin is higher ranked in research, so maybe that matters if you intend to take grad-level classes, but other that that, as all are relatively big state schools (where you’re most likely to be treated like a number), I’d say you should go with fit.
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Yeah, no need to go to grad school immediately after undergrad. You’ll be employable with a bachelor’s, and in the real world, two years of work experience counts for as much as two years of graduate school unless you’re learning about something very specialized and marketable in the latter. I worked about four years before I went to grad school, and it was a part-time, night program that my employer paid for. I’m glad I got my master’s because I got to walk around imagining that I was sooooo smart, but it made little difference, career-wise.
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