<p>I’m trying to decide between UCSC, UCDavis and UC Santa Barbara. When it comes to the computer science major, which is the best? I really would like to go to a place that has a solid deparment. I know that Davis’s comp sci deparment is kind of new. Cal poly is also in the running.HELP please?</p>
<p>UCSB CompSci is under the Engineering Dept. and ranked higher than Davis and UCI.</p>
<p>Cal Poly will teach you mostly application uses.</p>
<p>UCSB balances application and theory; so if you want to do research atleast you will have the background to do it. If you want to go into industry, you'll have the ability to do so also.</p>
<p>UCSB recently also won the world famous hacker contest -- our team scored number 1 at Defcon. :)</p>
<p><a href="http://cs.ucsb.edu/news/index.php?s=defcon%5B/url%5D">http://cs.ucsb.edu/news/index.php?s=defcon</a></p>
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