<p>I am an international student will be applying to colleges in the US this year.
I want to major in Computer Science/Engg.</p>
<p>Right now I'm definitely applying to MIT, Stanford, Caltech, USC (Safety), UPenn (M&T), Cornell and Princeton.</p>
<p>I am also considering Duke, Brown & Harvard. Are these any good for CS/CE?</p>
<p>I need financial aid badly but I want to go to a <em>reasonably good</em> school at the same time which has brand value and not schools like Illinois Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>So if somebody could recommend the good schools for Computer Science\Engg. which offer aid to international students it would be really helpful.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what Carnegie Mellon's policy is for international student aid, but about 11% of their undergrads are international. Top school for CS, and pretty high for ECE.</p>
<p>Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington have very good CS programs and they are all state schools. I believe Brown and Yale actually have good computer science programs. However, if I got into Harvard I would probably go there over Wiscosin and Washington even though their computer science programs aren't as good.</p>
<p>Purdue has some merit scholarships for international students, it's pretty good for computer science, and it's a state school so the tuition is not ridiculous.</p>
<p>Olin is smaller than Cooper Union, anways, so if you don't want a small student you wouldn't like it. I think Northwestern just started offering financial aid of some sort, and it's good overall for engineering.</p>
<p>CMU doesnt give money to internationals (I know it totally sucks), You should consider Harvery Mudd, they gave me almost a full ride, and its an incredible school (although its a bit small, but man, when one needs so much money, one just goes for the best offer). You should apply to Columbia Fu Foundation, its not as good as Cooper Union, but its at least in the top 25 engineer schools and its in NY!!! Columbia gives Global scholarships which are pretty hard to get, but if you are considering MIT and Stanford as options, you definetly have a chance for a Global Scholarship. You can send me a PM if you want any information about CS schools cause I was in your place last year and I researched a lot about US engineering schools with money for intls.</p>
<p>As far as Georgia Tech/UIUC is concerned.... even if they give you no int'l aid, the max cost is around 30k as opposed to 40+ for most private schools.</p>
<p>I don't know about GA Tech's financial aid for Int'l students. But I thought GA Tech is A LOT cheaper than many other private schools anyway?? That's in a sense an "aid" already to me.</p>
<p>If I am not mistaken, Harvard/Duke/Brown aren't known for CS/EE.</p>
<p>If you are interested in engineering+managment, you may want to look into industrial engineering (some schools call it management sciences and engineering). GA Tech has a top program in that. Other top programs in IE are Penn State, Mich, Northwestern, Purdue, and Stanford.</p>
<p>Looks to me GA Tech is the best buy out there in terms of cost and strength of department. Stanford is expensive (unless they hand you a lot of money) and very difficult to get in for practically anyone.</p>
<p>FYI, Stanford also has a top-5 econ program! Northwestern's econ program is in the top-10. However, it's CE isn't that great and it's finanical aid for intl students is limited from what I'd heard.</p>
<p>Harvard, Brown and Duke are pretty good at CS. They are not stellar like MIT, CMU or Stanford. But I think if you were to rank undergrad CS (not CE) then I think these 3 would most probably make it to the top 20.</p>
<p>University of Washington is quite well known for computer engineering and computer science, but the overall is not quite in the top rank though..</p>