From Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/academics/professional/cybersecurity/press-item.php?item=209
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http://www.collegechoice.net/rankings/best-computer-science-degree/
I love it, GT gets a better rank than Stanford. Its about time. Go Yellow Jackets CS majors!
So hard to wait until June 15th for the release of transfer acceptance/rejections.
You should always look at the specific program for your school when choosing one. HYPS is not going to be he best choice for a lot of majors.
@CU123 Ranks though do not tell us much. They are based on PhD programs and the reputation in the research community, of quality of research and research dollars, as well as simple “name recognition” that might result in a “brand” on your resume. So, smaller schools like RPI and Case Western do not get as high a rank as other well known schools, in specific fields like physics, but they offer excellent undergraduate teaching, and enough PhD level research to be really good learning experiences in physics . Also, how does one rank U of Illinois versus say Coe College? They are not really very similar in any way so it makes no sense to rank them against each other. Therefore small liberal arts colleges developed their own ranking system, separate from the large public or HYPS type schools. Whats sad is places like Case Western get lost, a bit in the shuffle, as the school does not get a high rank in any major. So, the overall university rank does tell a student something about the overall quality of undergraduate education. Schools without strong PhD programs are always going to suffer in rank compared to schools that offer strong PhD programs. US News and World Report ranks are also favoring older schools in the east and the well known ones on the west coast, aside from the schools in Oregon which are way under ranked for their quality. This is because Oregon is small and requires out of state students to fill up their public schools as does Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and other western states. Any time a school is begging to fill up, the ranking goes down. However it does not say anything about curriculum quality, teaching quality , or support for undergraduate education. Oregon public and private schools offers excellence in all three.
I do not believe in ranks so much, but just tickled to see Georgia Tech beat Stanford in anything. Stanford is the single most overranked college on the planet. It gets that rank partially because of its location and campus which appeals to 16-18 year olds. Its not necessarily a fit for most of the 16-18 year old crowd that perceives it as “BEST” along with their parents who believe Stanford makes a person successful.
As most of us know Stanford will not make a student successful. Success comes from within.
@Coloradomama Amen! (I went to grad school at Stanford, and I was not super impressed with the undergrads there. I mean, they’re fine, but certainly not ZOMGTHEBEST. How it became the Holy Grail is beyond me.)
@yankeeinGA don’t look at my occasional ranting against Stanford on CC, your opinion of me will drop! I try to edit what I say more carefully now. I worked for HP for years, so I formed an impression of Stanford and its graduates. Its not all bad. There is a very good tech transfer group at Stanford, for instance. For the right grad student, its a great place with rigorous education standards. I just like Georgia Tech better for undergrads. The support is there at GT. Career guidance is very strong. GT asked all freshman to take a “resume and career” seminar. It might look preprofessional to a Stanford humanities graduate though and it is. GT is good at a narrower set of majors than Stanford can be.
No worries, @Coloradomama! I totally agree with you.
@yankeeingeorgia How is it being a “Yankee” at GT?
Do out-of-staters fit in? On another note, my son just received an email that on May 1st, he’ll find out if he got in as a transfer. OMG We thought he had to wait until June 15th.
@coloradomama We visited Gtech several months ago, a mile each way from the campus is immaculate. However, one has to notice all the homeless people walking about and even inside food courts. Some were walking so close to us, I was worried about robbery. Please comment.
@yankeeinGA by chance you went to Gtech for undergraduate school?
@suenos53 my son doesn’t start until the fall, but we live in GA now (and have for a decade). I can tell you that my older kid’s college feels… ummmm… very southern and homogenous, and we were delighted while touring Tech to find it much more diverse in every possible way. I wouldn’t think an out-of-stater would feel out of place at all. Fingers crossed for your son!
@johnqian Sorry, I did not. My soon-to-be yellow jacket had me outpaced in math by the time he was in middle school. :)) I never would’ve considered Tech when I was a student, but I sure am glad it’s there for him!
@yankeeinGA hope to bump into you folks on FASET. Just worry about the safety of Atlanta. Is your son doing mechanical engineering? My son is.
We need some sort of CC gang sign so we can find each other. 
Atlanta, like most big cities, has safer parts and less safe parts. Tech is in a beautiful and very safe part of town, and campus has excellent security. Safety is the last thing I am worried about, personally.
My son will be studying math, but MechE is the largest major there, so I’m sure you will meet plenty of other families in the program!
I had the pleasure of touring the GT Police Department with the chief of police. This is no campus security office. It’s a fully operational accredited police department, dozens of sworn officers with full arrest authority and jurisdiction over the campus and surrounding area. Full fleet of vehicles, bikes, K-9, etc. High def cameras everywhere, with command center staffed 24/7 watching huge wall of monitors with instant dispach as needed. They will have a cop on the scene within seconds. Investigation and crime prevention departments, utilizing the brainpower of GT professors and students to study data, improve efficiency, etc. It’s really impressive. I doubt there’s a safer urban campus anywhere.
I agree with @Chardo Georgia Tech is safer than any city campus I have visited or lived at including colleges in the cities of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston and Cleveland. I was not aware of the cameras either, but good to know.
My son has had no issues, and seen no crimes at all in his freshman year.
@suenos53 For a public program, Georgia Tech has a lot of out of state students, about half I think in some majors like CS. My son feels very much at home, and he has grown up in Colorado with a “Yankee mom”. The science and math focus brings students together for a common goal and the spirit is phenomenal. While you can get grits at any restaurant, other negative stereotypes of the deep south do not hold. Atlanta is a politically liberal city.
I even find Atlanta to have a certain north eastern sophistication of a big city with top financial and high tech careers and lots of transplanted northeasterners enjoying that ten month a year nice weather. August is muggy and hot, but fall, winter and spring are really nice sunny weather, with a cool but not cold winter, and that is when students are on campus.
We are OOS and my kid attends Ga Tech. (it’s a long & unexpected story as to how she ended up there 
She’s 2nd year and she literally could not be happier. More than 50% of the student body is from around the U.S. and the world and the campus is lively, supportive, truly beautiful (that surprised us), and buzzing all of the time.
GT Undergrad student body is about 9000 Georgia students and 4500 OOS and international students. However the graduate program is about 70% OOS, making the campus very diverse. Graduates and undergraduates mix in classes for the upper level classes to some extent. Professors are from all over the world. Georgia students seem plenty liberal as well, as many of them hail from cities in Georgia, with good STEM high schools, and not rural areas.
Here is a breakdown, state by state for undergrad and grad school, for Fall 2015.
http://factbook.gatech.edu/admissions-and-enrollment/enrollment-by-state-table-4-12/
Right down to the mascot