<p>I'm comparing Cornell and Emory, and I like Emory a little better, except that have a very lowly rated Math/CS department, where as if I went to Cornell, theirs has a lot more prestige. For getting a job in Math/CS does prestige matter?</p>
<p>I go to Emory. If you a good student you get good jobs. Definitely won’t have all the research and educational opportunities Cornell may have but job wise the opportunities are there.</p>
<p>I took a look at Emory’s computer science website. The core curriculum seems skimpy and I was actually pretty surprised by the paucity of the elective courses they offer. Here are some of the cool computer science topics you won’t be learning about in Emory: computer vision, machine learning, embedded programming, security, cryptography, graphics. Compare the courses offered at Emory with the courses offered at Cornell. Cornell appears to offer about 10 times as many computer science courses.</p>
<p>There are some glaring omissions as well – most notably, an algorithms course, which is typically one of the toughest required courses in an undergrad computer science curriculum. Emory doesn’t even offer it as an elective. And I find it puzzling that a Math/CS major isn’t required to take a discrete math course.</p>
<p>Emory might be a great school, but it doesn’t seem like a very good school for someone interested in CS. If you want to go to grad school to pursue CS, you’ll be ill prepared for it.</p>
<p>Algorithms and discrete math courses are both offered and required for CS majors just are listed under a different name. Not sure what courses they listed under off the top of my head but from speaking with advisors they are there as full courses.</p>
<p>But rest sounds about right. CS major is pretty straight forward not much unique specialization such as voice recognition. Higher prestige math schools do have a lot more course. The cool courses at Emory would be listed as cs 485.</p>
<p>It ain’t about prestige.</p>
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<p>It is not really about prestige in this case.</p>
<p>[Emory’s</a> CS offerings](<a href=“Welcome to Emory College.”>Welcome to Emory College.) may look reasonable at first glance, but [actual</a> CS offerings each semester](<a href=“http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/classes-semester.php?subject=CS&year=2011&term=1&graduate=0]actual”>http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/classes-semester.php?subject=CS&year=2011&term=1&graduate=0) are more limited.</p>
<p>As far as prestige goes, employers looking for CS graduates will tend to recruit locally and travel to schools well known for CS. In both cases, they will likely go to Georgia Tech before they go to Emory; an Emory CS student will likely have to seek out many of companies to apply to rather than see them in the career center. For math, note that many of the better opportunities for math graduates are in the finance industry, which tends to be rather more prestige conscious.</p>
<p>I’d go to Cornell before Emory for CS. Prestige isn’t all that matters in CS, but it does matter.</p>
<p>Ok, well, another option other than Math/CS that I would consider is majoring in bio, and then Emory has a dual degree program with GA tech where after three years you go to GA tech for 2 and get an engineering degree, so if I decide not to go to med school I could get either a compE or EE degree for GA tech.</p>
<p>Why not just go to Georgia Tech?</p>
<p>Every time I read the word “prestige” on these boards, it makes me cringe.</p>
<p>^ Cringing at a lot of what shows up on CC is a healthy response.</p>
<p>Aegrisomnia, don’t get me started… -_-</p>
<p>Well, I don’t really care about it, but if school X would help me get a better job than school Y, it seems kind of obvious that I would choose school X. If that’s not the case then could choose whatever school I want, but it seems like that’s not the case, and I would be better suited at a school with a good reputation.</p>