What schools would be comparable to Edinburgh overall and for cs?
In terms of academics - keeping in mind each of the ones below will have a different approach to undergraduate education :
Northeastern ? Cal poly slo ? Olin ? UWisconsin? UMass Amherst Honors?
CS (Informatics) at Edinburgh is strong. Quite theoretical. By your 4th year there, you will be taking essentially all what would be grad level CS classes in the States.
I would say UCLA, UW-Madison, NYU, UIUC. Maybe Northwestern/UChicago.
It really depends on what aspect. In terms of being an urban uni in the middle of a city (instead of a campus), it’s like NYU/BU.
Caliber of students would be somewhere around UCLA, UW-Madison, NYU. It’s tuition-free for Scots so Edinburgh would get the smartest Scots who aren’t willing to pay up for Oxbridge or Imperial, just like UCLA/UW-Madison/UIUC (all strong in CS) would have some in-state Ivy-caliber kids in their CS department who are there for financial reasons as well as strong OOS/International kids.
The theoretical CS makes it comparable to NU CS (known for AI) and UofC CS.
Is its undergraduate computer science and artificial intelligence program really mid tier? Isn’t it overall ranked top 20 and its computer science ranked 14 in the world?
Maybe not CMU or Mit, but I thought it would be comparable to Oxbridge, Cornell, UPenn, and UCB. I was considering going to it over places like Swarthmore, Dartmouth, or Columbia (if I get in), since it’s AI is one of the best in the world.
All the schools listed above are top -notch, not 'mid tier '. Mid tier would be cpp, Sjsu, Santa Clara, Marist…
Yeah, your response is bewildering, OP.
All the schools I listed are strong in CS. Dartmouth CS, even though it has a high caliber of students, would be closer to midtier than CS at any of the schools I listed.
And yes, Edinburgh AI is one of the best in the world. And your 4th year there would be the equivalent of masters-level at a top CS school in the US. So it’s certainly comparable to CMU (and Northwestern/Yale/UChicago in AI and theoretical CS).
Darthmouth and Swarthmore have really strong undergrads, but their CS is not in that league.