<p>Which schools in the northeast/midwest have the best CS programs? Having a communications major, or something like communications is an added bonus. That's the only criteria really.</p>
<p>bumparooni</p>
<p>Well... IANACS'er, but Carnegie-Mellon's pretty well-renowned for CS... Any computer scientists out there?</p>
<p>MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, Cornell, Princeton, Wisconsin, Brown, Michigan</p>
<p>UIUC UIUC UIUC!!!!</p>
<p>Honestly i dont know about any other school but CS at U of I is absolutely top notch. Big named companies will virtually be at your doorstep if u can graduate from UIUC with a cs degree</p>
<p>what is UIUC? is this univ. of illinois urbana-champaign? I think so just checking</p>
<p>Yep its urbana champaign. I actually applied there :D Im waiting for my scores to be sent and the counselor to send the transcript. I hope I get in! Its number 5 in computer engineering and very good :) CMU is also great.</p>
<p>I'd have to agree on UIUC. But of course look at my name. And I got an A+ in CS. And I hate computers. So maybe that's saying something.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon and UIUC are the best computer science school in the midwest. Carnegie Mellon is known as potentially the best in the country. UIUC is generally regarded as the fifth best in the country behing MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Illini, how do you like your school? I am applying there and I visited the campus and I loved it. Tell me more about cs! </p>
<p>Is it possible to do a double major in CS and Business In UIUC?</p>
<p>Hey Akhila,
Heres my post from a different thread regarding CS out here</p>
<p>"lol...on a more serious note i am a a sophomore at UIUC and practically in the same situation as you are in right now. Currently i am in CS and lemme tell u that it is freaking INTENSE out here. You will basically be spending more time on that one CS class you will be taking ur fresh/ soph year than the other 3-4 classes combined. God knows whats gonna happen to me my junior or senior year when i have to take more than one CS class a semester!. So its basically upto you to decide if its worth putting all that effort into it. Every single day makes me that much closer to switching outta CS to maybe something in business. Also as someone mentioned before, my decison is also going to be influenced by the fact that i plan on getting a MBA shortly after graduation. Regarding other majors, from what i have heard, EE is as hard as CS. Majoring in economics basically means taking like 6-7 Econ classes and the rest electives.In other words- its easy to double major/minor in it."</p>
<p>Regarding double majoring i think it would kindaa hard coz there are way too many engineering as well as business school requirements. Also the new revised CS curriculum has cut off the application sequence( taking businness or other non CS classes in order to specialize in that field) and added a few more CS classes in place of it. For me if i plan to stay in CS, i have a chance to do the App Sequence in accounting which would probabaly get me a minor in it. You can probably still get a minor in a business field by using up all your electives towards it and taking some extra classes but double majoring would be really hard. </p>
<p>Oh btw i love UofI.....even though i wish it sould improve in some areas( the surrounding city yuck!!)</p>
<p>Ugh. Surrounding city. Ugh.</p>
<p>I can imagine that UIUC would be fun as an undergrad. As a graduate student, it's really... The academics are exceptional. I'm getting excellent job offers, but social opportunities for grad students are lacking, and coming from a smaller school like Rice has made for some pretty intense culture shock. So... check out the undergrad social life. If you like it, then it'd be a <em>great</em> school with fabulous academic opportunities to turn to. But if it isn't on campus, you're not going to find it in Urbana-Champaign.</p>
<p>That's probably more of a grad student thing than an undergrad thing, though.</p>
<p>Best of luck in your college search!</p>
<p>I love U of I too. Yeah Green Street is really taking off in a direction I like. I hope the expansion affects other things. I love it as an undergrad but as a grad student I'm sure it wouldn't be as fun. I agree about the minor unless you talk to you're advisor and are okay with staying longer than 4 years or just go for your MBA after undergrad. If you feel at home when you get to U of I, like I did, chances are good that it would suit you. Glad you liked the campus.</p>