<p>Hi do any of you have any experience with computer science at UMD, specifically the MS program? What is recruiting like at UMD? Is it mostly defense companies? Do big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc recruit here?</p>
<p>I can only speak of my son’s experience - he is a junior in computer engineering and was contacted after his freshman year for internships by google, microsoft, and amazon. While I can’t speak of actual job offers, the internship offers are there. I can only imagine opportunities would be there for graduate students, but that is just a guess.</p>
<p>Ok thank you very much. That is very helpful.</p>
<p>I’m a junior here, and I can say that most top cs companies recruit here. Here’s the list from the CS career fair: <a href=“https://www.cs.umd.edu/openhouse/students/[/url]”>https://www.cs.umd.edu/openhouse/students/</a> I personally interviewed with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon and I eventually decided on Amazon because of my interest in cloud computing and they’re one of the top providers for cloud services and the money was basically the same for the three companies. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>IVavi thanks that is very reassuring. Could you tell me about the curriculum at UMD? Do you think it is more theory based or applied?</p>
<p>I don’t know much about the MS program, so I can’t really comment on that. For undergrad, it starts off being more applied then they weave the theory in after you have a good grasp of CS. From there you can basically choose what you want to take. Here is a list of classes: [UM</a> Testudo | Schedule Of Classes](<a href=“http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/soc?term=201301&crs=CMSC]UM”>http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/soc?term=201301&crs=CMSC). Basically 300 and below you can’t choose what you take and for 400 and above you get to choose. Some classes like computer networks and operating system are almost all applied and classes like crypto and numerical analysis are almost all theory based. There’s also some in the middle like advanced data structures and computer and network security, so basically you can take whatever you like.</p>