<p>Yeah I know the ranking of UC Irvine but do rankings tell the whole story of the university.</p>
<p>You: “But my only concern is quality of education in CS and which of them will be able to give me a better education in CS.”</p>
<p>If you care about the quality of CS education, then UC Irvine is your choice. Like everyone here said, UC Irvine’s Computer Science School is ranked higher than UC Davis. The City of Irvine has many tech companies like Google Irvine Headquarters, Blizzard Entertainment (WoW, Diablo, SC2, and etc), and many more.</p>
<p>“I am an international student so I can only search about the Universities on internet. I just wanted to know is Irvine considered a prestigious universities in California or is it considered an average university.”</p>
<p>I’m guessing you’re coming some where from Asia? Are you trying to go to school for its prestige so you can brag to your friends and family? Or are you going to school to learn? Anyways, to answer your question: UC Irvine is only 50 years old and is ranked in the top 50 University worldwide. That should tell you if it’s prestigious or not. (It’s prestigious in California). UC Irvine is also having President Obama speak at it’s graduating commencement too.</p>
<p>School is school, so success is entirely up to you. Just because you go to a prestigious school doesn’t mean you’re entitled to a position for a job. Employers don’t care much what school you went to, they care about your work experience. </p>
<p>So I have finalized irvine. Have I made the right decision choosing it over davis.</p>
<p>Only for CS</p>
<p>So, as mentioned I submitted my SIR and I am pretty happy with Irvine. But suddenly I have started reading very bad things about Irvine. Is it a bad school ? Please comment. I still have the time to change.</p>
<p>What bad “things” have you heard about UCI?</p>
<p>@Gumbymom I read that UC Irvine is really bad academics wise and also that it is not considered a good school.
Boring atmosphere or non party school are not my concern but academics is and most important is the quality of the CS course. </p>
<p>You said: “but academics is and most important is the quality of the CS course.”</p>
<p>Everyone else said: UC Irvine CS is ranked higher than UC Davis</p>
<p>Therefore UC Irvine CS > UC Davis CS </p>
<p>Ignore everything else. </p>
<p>But do you all think UC Irvine is better than Davis in CS.</p>
<p>Many CS majors already know programming language, they’ve been doing it for years before attending their perspective University. The quality of education depends on you, and you alone. Everything you can learn about CS you can learn online for free. Also, programming language knowledge pretty much stays the same regardless of what school you go to. For example, if you already know Javascript, then it doesn’t matter if you go to Harvard, Davis, UCLA, UCI, and etc., because Javascript is Javascript. You already know everything about Javascript.</p>
<p>It’s like mathematics, it doesn’t matter if you go to Harvard or No-name University–the rule and law of mathematics stays the same. In other words, learning ‘addition’ at Harvard is no different than learning ‘addition’ at the elementary school you went to. </p>
<p>UCI is better at CS and UCD is better in Computer Engineering. Why the doubt?</p>