<p>So my girlfriend and I are wondering: which school is more rigorous, CMU Comp. Sci. or MIT? Not really debating yet, we just said that we are going to compare next year. Anyone students at either school have an opinion?</p>
<p>MIT's program in comp sci is very different from Carnegie Mellon's. There isn't a comp sci major here. There is only Course 6 -- which is called Electronic Engineering AND computer science. As a result, students here who study comp sci study it in the broader context of an engineering degree which emphasizes more aspects. Naturally, within C6, you can subspecialize in comp sci, but you will have to take courses that are more EE-ish. So i suppose it's kind of hard to compare. I really know nothing about CMU's equivalent program.</p>
<p>6-1 = Electrical Science and Engineering
6-2 = Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6-3 = Computer Science and Engineering</p>
<p>As you can see, you cannot run away from the "engineering" part.</p>
<p>CMU SCS is more oriented toward real world applications(for example the government CERT team is at CMU).
MIT takes a more theoretical approach. </p>
<p>Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Any thoughts how it diffrent vs Stanford?</p>
<p>What about difficulty though? I know both schools have reputations of being hard, but is one ostensibly harder than the other?</p>
<p>MIT's the second hardest in the nation. Forgot what the other one is.</p>
<p>umm you can't really measure "hardest", its too subjective a concept, so I don't know how they could be ranked. </p>
<p>Although I don't think anyone will disagree with the statement that MIT is HARD.</p>
<p>MIT comp sci is hard, I heard from students at CPW. They say it is very steeped in theory and algorithm.</p>