Is UC Davis the way to go for CS?

My daughter attended Davis. She didn’t major in CS, but had a number of friends that did. The thing about Davis, that most students don’t understand is that the students at Davis are encouraged to work in a collaborative model. They study and work together and help each other out. (You definitely will not find that at most schools, especially not at UCSD, a very competitive school).

Her CS friends, during senior year, practiced mock interviewing. They all found jobs immediately after applying.

If you get a chance to visit, you will notice that the students facial expressions look “happy” at Davis. When my daughter visited her friends at Berkeley, she remarked that the students always seemed to look “stressed”. That’s just a perception, but body language tells you a lot. It helps that there are 40K bikes at Davis that help to release endorphins.
(My other daughter, went OOS to SUNY Buffalo and majored in EECS. She is in SoCal and is constantly head-hunted by CS firms.) If you’re majoring in CS, you will be marketable. You will like the pay.

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