<p>I've narrowed down my choices to RIT, Uconn and Umass amherst.
I need to know which school has the better CS program and which school would look better to future employers.</p>
<p>Can anyone help me make this choice?</p>
<p>RIT is really good school. Although their doctorate program is only 2 years old. Therefore the famous us news ranking system doesn’t help at all considering RIT as it was from 2010. I had a similar choice to make and I ruled that Umass is a much better school for graduate work in computer science but I was skeptical for undergraduate. Additionally the best internships such as google and Microsoft will go to the best students as the companies contact the school offering the internships and the professors recommend the students. So either you are an amazing student ( which is hard enough as a comp science major ) or you make your self known to the teachers, which is a good idea regardless. So what I’m saying is that at a school with a huge computer science program such as umass it’ll be harder to get in those internships that you want. For grad work I’m sure it’s fat as it has the name recognition, although there are better schools for grad work. RIT being a technical institute will train you in coding much better than other schools. That may be a stereotype but it usually true. Academics are tough at RIT, but the name recognition helps. Another factor is that it takes undergraduates 5 years to graduate with a bachelors because of the co-op program you have to do there. It is a requirement as it is part of the curriculum. It’s 3 semesters of co-ops which equates to an extra year for computer science majors. I don’t much about uconn but that’s my two cents on the other two schools which I did an extensive amount of research on. Hope it helps and good luck. Btw I’m a computer science major too. Cheers.</p>