Hi! I was accepted in Gatech’s and UCLA’s class of 2019 and I am currently in a fix. Which one out of the two universities would be a better choice? Please also state the reason for your verdict.
Georgia Institute of Technology vs. University of California, Los Angeles for BS in Computer Science
I’ve been hiring CS grads for over 25 years.
UCLA, hands down, no question whatsoever.
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That may be so, but there may have been a regional influence for that. When I lived in Calif, few GT grads were hired. But, now that I live in the South, few UCLA grads are hired.
@Dracolynx are you instate for either school? What is your net cost for each school? What is the net cost for your other accepted schools.
^ I’m in NYC, so neither are “in region.” UCLA is viewed as being at the absolute top of the public university pyramid (along with Michigan and Berkeley). Georgia Tech, not so much.
I disagree with soze. I wouldn’t make a big distinction between the CS programs of the two schools.
When I was working on Wall Street in NYC, the only west coast school that seemed to register with people was Stanford.
Both are well regarded, though campus recruiting does tend to have a local or regional bias. But aren’t there well regarded lower cost options like your in state publics?
Georgia tech is better ranked than UCLA but I think UCLA might have more CS graduates hence that maybe one of the reasons why it’s not well recruited. My daughter compared her experience with somebody who is at UCSB, small engineering school, less companies recruited there vs her college.
UCLA will be very expensive.
Cost? Both are great places.