Stay at UNT or transfer to UTD?

<p>Does anybody know any good things about UNT's computer science program? I've been looking for statistics such as graduation employment rate, ranking, and general statistics but I can't find anything. </p>

<p>The reason I am asking is because I am currently a freshman at UNT majoring in computer science, but I was think about transferring to UT-Dallas since they have a more reputable CS program. I am in the honors college at UNT and have an $8k per year scholarship. Is it worth transferring to UT-Dallas and giving up being in honors and having scholarship money so that I can graduate from a more well known computer science program?</p>

<p>UTD is much stronger than UNT in terms of computer science. UTD is definitely the place to go in DFW for EE/CSE/Nanotech. They’ve had Nobel laureates and are heavily involved in STEM funding.</p>

<p>UNT is much more liberal arts orientated with their high musical ratings, extensive art/art history literature, etc. Also, honor’s college really isn’t that worth it. </p>

<p>UTA is cheap, and offers a challenge if you’re into that thing, they have a new NANOFAB building and are growing in terms of endowment, over 60-65% of the school is in a STEM major of some sort . Only downside is that it’s a commuter school with not much to do around. Ironically, all the UTA students go to Dallas or Fort Worth to have fun…and if you’re a UTD student, Richardson is in close proximity to Dallas. </p>

<p>I’m from DFW.</p>

<p>Edit: However, now that I read your post again, you have a scholarship. If it’s going to cripple you and your family financially, don’t transfer anywhere. Just stay stable for now, grind hard, and shoot for a good graduate school. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t go anywhere because you have UNT or whatever non-super prestigious university stamped on your undergrad. There are a lot of UNT, UTA, and UTD folk who go on to UT Austin, Rice, etc. and some go out of state to places like Berkeley, UCLA, etc. </p>

<p>Keep in mind UTA has a transfer scholarship. It’s not as much per year, but might be more if you calculate it relative to UTA tuition. UTA tuition is ~4.5k/semester. It’s a commuter school, so expenses don’t go that much up from there.</p>