What are the benefits of Turing Scholars Honors Program vs. BS in Computer science?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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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 ?

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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…

  1. You already probably have more internships than other UT CS or internships of higher quality
  2. You've written a MASTERs thesis already.
  3. 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.

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Even as a Turing student you can only take 2 CS classes per semester.

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Lol yeah, but the turing scholar’s classes are advanced and they’re equivalent to 1.5 classes