<p>I would say Harvey Mudd, but it might be too stressful given your last criteria.</p>
<p>Why has no one mentioned Princeton yet? If you’re looking at Stanford, MIT, UC-Berkeley and similar, you should definitely consider Princeton. Engineering and CompSci are pretty darn good here. An added bonus is that its NOT Cornell.</p>
<p>Princeton is a pretty intense school, but the undergraduate experience is great, the campus is wonderful, and the classes will be a lot smaller here than at Cornell. Housing is guaranteed all four years, and it has a lot of Division I sports for you.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I also wholeheartedly recommend Carnegie-Mellon University, but it may not guarantee housing for all four years (I should check on that).</p>
<p>FYI, at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition this year in Tokyo, the following US colleges sent teams to compete against 80-some other international teams: MIT (came in 4th), Caltech (12th), followed by U Texas-Dallas, Stanford, UIUC, U of Nebraska (all tying for 26th place), and CMU, Cornell, Duke, and U of Central Florida (tying for 44th place.)</p>
<p>These are the schools with extremely competitive CS programs.</p>
<p>There were some other US teams which got “honorable mention”–they solved 2 or fewer of the 10 problems. Harvard, Rutgers, Va Tech, & UNC were among these. </p>
<p>BTW, Warsaw University, Poland, won with 8 of the 10 problems solved.</p>
<p>On the first page someone listed Maryland and UMass as having good CS programs. Are they well regarded? Also, how do they compare to each other?</p>
<p>Computer Science (Ph.D.)
Ranked in 2006*
Rank/School Average assessment
score (5.0 = highest)
- Carnegie Mellon University ¶ 5.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.0
Stanford University (CA) 5.0
University of California–Berkeley 5.0 - Cornell University (NY) 4.6
University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 4.6 - University of Washington 4.5
- Princeton University (NJ) 4.4
- University of Texas–Austin 4.3
University of Wisconsin–Madison 4.3 - California Institute of Technology 4.2
Georgia Institute of Technology 4.2 - University of California–San Diego 4.0
University of Maryland–College Park 4.0 - Harvard University (MA) 3.9
University of California–Los Angeles 3.9
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 3.9 - Columbia University (NY) 3.8
Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) 3.8
University of Pennsylvania 3.8
Yale University (CT) 3.8 - Brown University (RI) 3.7
Rice University (TX) 3.7
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 3.7 - Duke University (NC) 3.6
University of Massachusetts–Amherst 3.6
University of Southern California 3.6 - Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.5
- New York University 3.4
Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) 3.4
University of California–Irvine 3.4
University of Virginia 3.4</p>
<p>U of New Haven baby. It’s all about the CPU. Big Duncan O’Brien.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad comp sci ranking:</p>
<p>MIT
Carnegie Mellon
UC Berkeley
Cornell
U Illinios UC
UCLA
Yale
Caltech
U Texas Austin
U Wisconsin Madison
U Maryland CP
Princeton
U Washington
USC
SUNY Stony Brook
Brown
Georgia Tech
U Penn
U Rochester
NYU
U Minnesota
U Utah
Columbia
Ohio State
Rice
Duke
Northwestern
SUNY Buffalo
U Pittsburgh
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
U Mass Amherst
Rutgers NB
Indiana U Bloomington
Penn State UP
UC Santa Barbara
Syracuse
Iowa St
RPI
UVA
U Michigan AA
U Iowa
U Conn
Southern Methodist
US Naval Acad
US Military Acad
U Houston
U Kansas
Washington U St Louis
Mich St
Stevens Inst
Case Western
Texas A&M
U Oklahoma
Kansas State
Vanderbilt
Washington State</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate ranking for electrical engineering:</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
UCLA
Cornell
Purdue
USC
Princeton
U Michigan Ann Arbor
Carnegie Mellon
Polytechnic U
U Texas Austin
Columbia
Georgia Tech
U Maryland College Park
Ohio State
Stevens Institute of Technology
U Minnesota
Northwestern
UC Santa Barbara
U Florida
RPI
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Brown
U Wisconsin Madison
U Arizona
UC San Diego
U Colorado Boulder
Washington U St Louis
U Pennsylvania
Yale
Virginia Tech
Penn State University Park
Case Western
U Missouri Rolla
U Mass Amherst
Syracuse
Michigan State
U Notre Dame
U Pittsburgh
Iowa State
North Carolina St
U Washington
Texas A&M
Southern Methodist
UC Davis
Duke
SUNY Stony Brook
U Tennessee Knoxville
Arizona State
U Kansas
U Hawaii Manoa
Texas Tech
Colorado State
SUNY Buffalo
U Utah
US Air Force Academy
U Iowa
CUNY City College
U Connecticut</p>
<p>The percent of classes under 20 students:
Princeton 74%
Cornell 64%</p>
<p>The percent of classes over 50 students:
Princeton 10%
Cornell 15%</p>
<p>Not much difference.</p>
<p>Thanks for rankings a la 1997. Real helpful.</p>
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<p>Uh, Adobe is headquartered in Seattle? I don’t think so. Adobe is headquartered in the Adobe Towers in San Jose, CA.</p>
<p><a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ADBE[/url]”>Adobe Inc. (ADBE) Company Profile & Facts - Yahoo Finance;
<p>Now, it is true that Adobe has a major location in Seattle. But that’s not quite the same as saying as it is headquartered in Seattle. It is not.</p>
<p>Also, it’s more accurate to say that Microsoft, and Nintendo of America are headquartered * near * Seattle, and specifically in Redmond, which is near Seattle, but not in Seattle. I think you’d be able to raise a lot of hackles in the Pacific Northwest if you were to go around publicly equating Seattle to Redmond. That’s like saying that Boston and Cambridge are the same, or that San Francisco and Oakland are the same.</p>
<p>How about Amazon–isn’t that headquartered in Seattle also?</p>
<p>tokyo–which listings were from 1997?</p>