<p>I believe that I saw that US News tanked UIUC higher than Cornell in comp sci.</p>
<p>I found this conversation about UIUC : another two ivys but which are not ranked in comp sci.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/835436-columbia-vs-upenn-vs-uiuc-computer-eng.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/835436-columbia-vs-upenn-vs-uiuc-computer-eng.html</a></p>
<p>Both are great, I would go with the less expensive option. As for UIUC, don’t let the public U thing fool you, their engineering programs would rival any.</p>
<p>thanks, voc. Apparently all the rankings is comp sci in the UIUC eng college. Do you have an idea how well the comp sci from UIUC’s LAS college is ? I do not know if Cornell also has a compsci degree from their LA college.</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Computer Science](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area29.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in Computer Science)</p>
<p>That might help 
both are very closely ranked to each other. I would probably choose your best financial offer.</p>
<p>thanks for the link. </p>
<p>also, this list says computer science. Does it takes into consideration comp sci in the college of Eng as well as comp sci in the college of LAS?</p>
<p>What is the NRC? </p>
<p>I notice that Rose Hulman or Harvey Mudd are not on this list. Is this only for national university whose final degree is a phd?</p>
<p>They’re both excellent. For undergrad Cornell will be better since they’re much more selective in their admissions and will have generally better students.</p>