I am planning to major in computer science for college and I want to know how good the QuestBridge schools are for computer science, specifically undergrad. I am also having some problem comparing the QuestBridge schools with other good computer science colleges. A QuestBridge acceptance is a binding full-ride scholarship to that school.
I have attached the QuestBridge college list here.
https://www.questbridge.org/college-partners
You can find top CS programs at QB partners with various general attributes through schools such as MIT, Caltech, Rice, Stanford, Princeton, Northwestern and Brown. If you’d like to expand your choices to schools with a stronger undergraduate focus, maybe look into a LAC option such as Hamilton; outside of the excellent QB partners, consider Harvey Mudd.
Not sure why you would recommend Hamilton for CS compared to numerous other schools with greater CS offerings, since Hamilton has only 6 upper level (300/400 level) CS courses that are not special topics or seminars, not all of which are offered every year: https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/Courses-and-Requirements?dept=Computer%20Science
For comparison, Pomona (another LAC in the Questbridge list) has a much larger selection of upper level CS courses: http://catalog.pomona.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=28&ent_oid=1578&returnto=5698
I included Hamilton because in coding competitions it has outperformed teams from other LACs including QB partner Wellesley:
https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/comp-sci-department-hosts-college-computing-conference
https://cs.hamilton.edu/ccscne/
I like Pomona a lot for CS as well, but decided to mention its fellow consortium member Harvey Mudd instead in that it’s a great example of a top school for CS outside of QB, a class of schools in which the OP also expressed an interest. Note as well that in your own research of a few years ago, Pomona offered fewer key upper-level CS-related courses than Hamilton: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/math-computer-science-majors/1814245-computer-science-at-some-smaller-schools-including-liberal-arts-colleges-p2.html.
It looks like Pomona’s CS offerings have expanded while Hamilton’s CS offerings and shrank since then.
Haverford has a strong computer science program for a LAC and its grads go on to excellent career placement. Additionally, being in a bi-college program with Bryn Mawr and the Quaker Consortium with UPenn, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr broadens the offerings.
@ucbalumnus: Note that courses in CS-related topics such as machine learning and hardware may appear in mathematics and physics departments.
@ucbalumnus The Pomona link you provided lists courses that may not have been offered since 2014 or 2016, that redirect to the Harvey Mudd catalog, etc. Simply counting them without acknowledging these factors would seem to be misleading.