<p>I’m a first year CS student here, and wow, I can’t believe no one mentions Brown CS when it comes to the best computer science schools. Yes, popular names such as CMU and Stanford pop up, but why not Brown? Literally, every upper classman I’ve talked to gets into a startup, goes on to another amazing CS graduate school, or goes to Microsoft or Google. </p>
<p>Is this because Brown is known to be more humanities-based school? Or am I missing something?</p>
<p>My son found Brown on a list of top-20 undergrad colleges for computer science, which is why he started to look into Brown in the first place.</p>
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<p>You’re looking for a job already? My son, in his first semester, is just enjoying himself learning Java and using the existing libraries to implement ideas for game design.</p>
<p>Yes, Brown has one of the top undergrad CS departments and one of the most underrated undergraduate CS programs. After all, who else has “Andy” of Toy Story? What you may be missing is that Brown is an undergrad dominated school and most rankings are partially or wholly based on the graduate program. None of this matters because the right people understand the quality of Brown’s CS students. </p>
<p>Amazing oppurtunities await the CS students. Some sooner than others. Recruitment of exceptional students can begin as early as second year. It is never to early to be thinking about jobs in this field.</p>
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<p>My son has “Andy” as his faculty advisor. How great is that?</p>
<p>Not only is that great, it is priceless. Andy is one of the reasons my son chose Brown over some more “highly rated” CS schools.</p>
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<p>And for everything else, there’s MasterCard. ;)</p>
<p>I only learned Brown was amazing at CS after I was accepted and visited. I was never really planning on doing CS but I decided to take the other intro class and now I am considering majoring in it. (Quick note: there are two intro tracks that get freshman to the same place but differently. Andy’s class is awesome but I prefer the other class’ setup.).</p>
<p>The applied math department is pretty amazing as well although not well known.</p>
<p>Companies know about Brown’s CS Department. The Brown Alumni Magazine once wrote that so many Brown CS grads worked at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic that it felt like a class reunion.</p>