How is Pitt for CS?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pittsburgh
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<p>I am a resident of Pennsylvania, and live about 30 minutes from Pitt. I have narrowed my college choice down to Purdue University and University of Pittsburgh. I believe Purdue is known as more of the engineering/CS school, however its coming to about $40,000 a year. That's more than......$30,000 according to my calculations!! But they do have excellent recruitment from a bunch of big companies such as Google and Microsoft which seems pretty nice.</p>

<p>Pitt is coming to $25,000 a year so its $15,000 cheaper a year, which is $60,0000 over the course of my undergraduate education. I know that Pitt is a great school especially for medicine as its medical program is probably one of the best in the country. However, I don't know much about its CS program. I don't really know where to go. I plan to work for a couple years after graduating, then probably heading to business school to get an MBA, so I don't want to spend a lot of money on undergrad education. Do graduates from Pitt have a shot to get into top grad schools? I really don't want to much debt, but I also want to go to a good CS/engineering school. What do you think I should do?</p>

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<p>Purdue is definitely not worth 60k more than Pitt. The two schools are pretty evenly-ranked, on the whole. </p>

<p>As far as Pitt’s CS program goes (I go to Pitt but am not in the department): it claims to be one of the oldest CS departments in the country, which I presume means it’s pretty good. You can also cross-register at CMU, which is easily in the top 2-3 schools for CS. Google has a base in Pittsburgh, and I’d wager that they recruit from Pitt’s CS department (as well as CMU’s).</p>

<p>Pitt isn’t perfect, but it’s definitely good enough. You should have no trouble getting into a good graduate school.</p>