RPI v. RIT v. UCONN for CS

<p>Can anyone please comment on what would be the best selection for Computer Science? It seems there is a dissatisfaction with the CS department at RPI looking at some of the posts today. Thank you.</p>

<p>My S is currently a freshman Information Technology major. Last year, he had also been accepted at RIT. (IT is part of the CS school at RIT, but separate from CS at RPI).</p>

<p>He took Intro to CS last semester and is taking another CS class, Data Structures (or something like that), this semester. His only negative comment about his CS classes was that the intro class last semester was rather large - I think 100 or 120.</p>

<p>When he was deciding last year, he did another visit to RIT and RPI (as well as WPI) in April. He sat in on classes, met professors, etc. on those visits and when he was done with the visits, he decided that RPI was the best program for him.</p>

<p>If possible, I would suggest visiting the schools again with an eye toward which one would he want to spend the next four years at.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

<p>College, as well as much else in life, is to a very large extent what you make of it. Just because you enroll in one school or another leaves out the “what you make of it” from the equation.</p>

<p>I’m currently a CS student at RPI and I personally don’t have any major complaints about the department here. If you have any specific concerns, feel free to ask here or PM me with questions. I’ll try to give as unbiased a response as possible.</p>

<p>To be honest, I’ve seen RIT’s program and I wasn’t at all impressed with their offerings. I don’t know as much about UConn, but as an undergrad I remember being repulsed enough by RIT’s overemphasis on software engineering (as opposed to algorithms/theory) to not bother applying (of course, if your S/D is looking for some CS degree involving a lot of software engineering courses, that could be viewed as a plus).</p>