University of Maryland offered admission with 55000 Dollars tuition but the admission was not direct admit to CS. So a GPA of 2.7 needs to be maintained to transfer in the CS department.
For RPI admission to CS was offered with 40000 Dollars tuition.
What would be the better choice in terms of jobs, internships,quality of classes, quality of life?
Mod note, see this user’s post below. Also considering UCSC.
Don’t you have a bunch of threads comparing two schools? Why don’t you consolidate them into one thread?
UCSC does not seem to rank high in CS. Is it still a a good Program? How about Student life and opportunities?
I have also evaluated between the 2, while Maryland is a good program the rankings don’t matter for getting internships or jobs.
UCSC course list is solid and research is in the hot CS areas like AI/ML/NLP etc. proximity to Silicon Valley gives an edge for internships and job interviews, industry visits/collaboration but ultimately the students have to pass the interview to land the job.
Maryland has more CS kids (3200 vs 2000 in ucsc). Some courses are graded on a curve, hence those likely to have competitive pressure. Rigor is good and modern CS building.
Which region do you want to work in after graduation?
Does cost differ or matter?
Offers from the two schools:
direct admit to CS at UC Santa Cruz with 40000 tuition
University of Maryland , 55000 tuition , not direct admit to CS , so transferring into the CS department will be necessary which requires a 2.7 GPA
What would be the better choice spending 40000 at UC Santa Cruz or 55000 at University of Maryland. Is it worth it to pay 15000 Dollars more for University of Maryland in terms of jobs , internships , quality of classes and student life?
No.
I would always take direct admit over having to apply, unless the DI school is as really bad for CS. It’s really stressful being in the large prereqs and competing against your peers for a spot in CS. I certainly wouldn’t pay 15k extra to put myself in that position.
Why did RPI drop out if the discussion? At the same cost as UCSC, it might be the best option of the 3.
It didn’t. This thread was combined with another. The OP posted several different threads.