<p>Does anyone know what trinity university is like? Is it well regarded? Which tier college would it be?</p>
<p>Trinity University (TX) has a top tier accounting program (5th highest CPA pass rate in the US, over 50% of their class goes to Big 4 firms) and a good engineering program. Not many people have heard of it probably due to its size.</p>
<p>It is ranked the #1 regional university in the west by USNews.</p>
<p>Any idea about their computer science department? Is trinity well regarded as a college?</p>
<p>Trinity is well regarded in TX, especially in San Antonio and Houston. It is not well known outside the state. After Rice, it is the second best private school in the state for undergrad, IMO. I have visited several times with our kids and I know a number of TU students. They are generally bright, engaged and relatively high achieving types. I am not familiar with their CS program.</p>
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<p>Trinity has good CS, I believe they send a lot of CS students to top CS grad schools (Cornell, Brown etc).</p>
<p>OP,
My daughter graduated from TU in 2011. She enjoyed her time there very much. She is now in a fully funded Ph.D. program and has remarked many times how grateful she is for the education she got at TU. She also had acceptances from plenty of other schools that were “ranked” higher (NU, CMC, Carleton, more), but TU challenged her even though it was a safety. The campus is beautiful, professors wonderful, and in general found everyone to be really nice and accepting. She went there from a Chicago suburb.</p>
<p>I can’t speak personally about the CS program other than to say friends of my daughter who were in it had high opinions.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information.</p>
<p>My son just completed his first year in computer science at Trinity. He had a very successful first year and really enjoyed his CS classes. The professors are great and are very involved with the students. Trinity has an excellent reputation with grad schools and the San Antonio area businesses. The chairman of the CS department shared a story about USAA and how much they like TU grads. A high level IT executive at USAA (ranked #20 of best places to work by CNN/Money) commented that they would like to hire all of Trinity’s CS grads. The chairman laughed and thought to himself that is very flattering. It turned out that year (I think this was about three years ago) that Trinity graduated around 12 CS students. Two or three went on to grad school. One or two were hired by other companies and the remaining 7 or 8 students were hired by USAA. USAA throws a pizza party each year for the Trinity CS majors. Valero and RackSpace also visit campus. RackSpace was founded by Trinity grads. San Antonio has the second most IT security jobs in the nation thanks to the 24th Air Force ([Air</a> Force looking to hire 1,000 cyber-security professionals - San Antonio Business Journal](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/blog/2013/01/air-force-looking-to-hire-1000.html?page=all]Air”>http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/blog/2013/01/air-force-looking-to-hire-1000.html?page=all)). My son is interested in starting his own company and he and his roommate joined Geekdom ([Geekdom</a> - Collaborative Coworking Space in San Antonio Texas](<a href=“http://geekdom.com/san-antonio]Geekdom”>San Antonio Business Journal : Geekdom introduces monthly San Antonio Startup Day - Geekdom)) - it only costs $10 a month for a student. Next year Trinity will complete its Center for the Sciences and Innovation which looks amazing. The CS students have great opportunities on campus for paid internships. My son is providing programming support for his nautical archaeology professor this summer, and his roommate also stayed on campus this summer providing programming support. The CS department is growing and has attracted some really good young professors. Trinity’s CS department is too small to show up in any rankings, but we are extremely impressed with its quality. I am sure my son is getting a far superior education to what he would have received at one of the huge state schools (even if they have very high CS rankings).</p>