<p>Probably going to UT Austin for Computer Science. I'm looking at the Turing Scholars program. How does that rank compared to a degree from Stanford?</p>
<p>I spoke (emailed) with a guy in Turing and Deans Scholar who said after his first semester, as a freshmen, he got an internship with Facebook in Palo Alto. He said they, and most Californian companies, recruit UT heavily (like 6th or 7th highest recruited), so I’d imagine it looks just as, or very close to, good as the other top universities like Stanford, CMU, and MIT.</p>
<p>Gosh! I can’t believe this year of applications is actually upon us, I’m applying for Turing’s as well.</p>
<p>I’ll just leave this here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://cns.utexas.edu/images/stories/2_Fall_2012_Student_Handout.pdf[/url]”>http://cns.utexas.edu/images/stories/2_Fall_2012_Student_Handout.pdf</a></p>
<p>With Turing Scholars, you would have all the benefits of being at a large state university in the great city of Austin while still having challenging and small classes and lots of career opportunities.</p>
<p>I’m currently a CS major at UT and while I have’t gotten into the grit work of CS, I talk to many of my fellow CS guys. </p>
<p>Bottom line: Austin is a booming city for CS majors…everyone I have talked to has been able to get decent internships and two friends that have graduated had no problem finding work. While I understand different people have different circumstances, I believe that UT’s CS program holds a lot of prestige. I know nothing about Stanford/MIT/Superawesomeschool so I won’t compare to them, but if you are a Turing Scholar, I’m sure you will be fine.</p>