<p>I just finished going through a list of all colleges in my home state and narrowing it down to the ones I’m willing to attend. I’m willing to go to school in a different state but I’d rather stay closer to home and pay resident tuition if I go to a public school.</p>
<p>My first requirement was that they offer degrees in both computer science and math. (I’ll have to think about accreditation later since CS is a relatively new field and accreditation for it isn’t the same as accreditation for any other kind of engineering.)</p>
<p>Then I looked through the catalogs and eliminated colleges with severely lacking course selections. Some omit things like complex analysis, abstract algebra, number theory, etc. that no department respectful of math would fail to offer to teach. In CS, a big red flag is a lack of classes devoted to theoretical topics like computability theory.</p>