What?

College Majors Math/Computer Science Majors
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http://computer-science-schools.com/#schools

UCF top 25?

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Considering the majority does not take those sites with much credibilty, ehh. Like honestly, where are some of the top schools like MIT, Stanford, Caltech in the top 20? None. Even UIUC isn’t in it so… (unless UIUC in usa have a rank 75 CS department which I find hard to believe)

Hate to admit but USNews is like THE ranking for the majority (including even many employers). So ehh, who cares if George Mason (a fine univ btw) is rank 2 or whether UCF (also great school) is rank 20 in that site? If it aint USNews (or a few other major ones), then the site won’t be taken seriously by people anyways. Mehh

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It just seems odd that a site completely devoted to computer science has these type of rankings.

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For what its worth, those aren’t CS rankings: those are “computer schools”

Here are their CS rankings, which has MIT as #2 - still not the best ranking, but it makes a bit more sense.

http://computer-science-schools.com/computer-science

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^^^better but still some weird ranks…USC #1…Carnegie Mellon #13…Minnesota…#7???

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They still rank UCF #1 in Florida ahead of UF???

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Agreed for sure. I don’t think it merits any analysis though - I couldn’t find any methodology or reasoning, and it’s a terrible site.

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What kind of nonsense is this…

2015 Best Education Quality Ranking - 100 Top USA Colleges and Universities

  1. Harvard
  2. USC
  3. Penn
  4. Columbia
  5. Texas

http://www.american-school-search.com/

If this ranking was credible, it would have USC at #1 !!! Fight On Trojan Bretheren!!

I tend to not pay too much attention to these kinds of surveys, especially from commercial, mom and pop websites that don’t disclose their ranking methodology. Their main purpose is to sell advertising for colleges and degree programs.

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From that website…

Ah…NO. Tuition is around $6,500 per year for instate students, and Orlando isn’t “dangerous”.

UCF has a very strong CS program and in some ways it’s comparable to UF’s. In fact, with merit aid, it may even be the better in-state option.

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DS16 will be studying CS at UCF in the fall. He much preferred the school overall to UF, and so didn’t even apply to either of the state flagships. UCF has top notch programming teams and cyber security teams, and excellent opportunities for internships/co-ops in Orlando. They also have plenty of opportunities for undergraduate research. If he was looking at any other major, I probably would have encouraged him to widen his search, but I think the CS program there will serve him well.

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@gator88ne - I am going to have to disagree with you on this.

I would say that Florida is particularly dangerous for naive CS majors who are apt to show up at a “Python Challenge” thinking that it is a programming contest…