What are the benefits of Turing Scholars Honors Program vs. BS in Computer science without Turing, after graduation - in professional life ?
Why would a student take the CS honors route ?
The CS Honors route - Turing Scholars- allows you to take 3 semesters of UT CS- which is already hard- in just 2 semesters, which allows you to take harder classes later on. Being a Turing Scholar means that you also are expected to conduct research/write a graduate-level thesis and do internships in college and are given smaller class sizes.
In terms of AFTER Graduation…
- You already probably have more internships than other UT CS or internships of higher quality
- You've written a MASTERs thesis already.
- This is the one I can't put concrete numbers on but it's a super amazing thing to put on a resume. Obviously people who don't know what UT is won't know about it, but UT is a HUGE school!!! Admittedly, I live in the Austin area, but all of my teachers knew what the Turing Scholar program was and were really impressed that I was accepted to the program. People even talk about me at the other school, they're like it's that dude that was accepted to the Turing Scholar's program.
So being a Turing Scholar is really grueling, but it’s payoff is way higher than an already very high UTCS payoff.
Even as a Turing student you can only take 2 CS classes per semester.
Lol yeah, but the turing scholar’s classes are advanced and they’re equivalent to 1.5 classes