are internships/experience the key for finding a job in comp science?

<p>ok well i have a dilemma in which college to attend. my choices are ucsd and ucd and i will lost some pros of each.</p>

<p>ucsd
pros:
-better ranked school and better ranked engineering/computer science department
-new comp science building opening next fall
-jacobs school of engineering is gaining prestige</p>

<p>cons:
-distance from home (i live in san jose)
-unknown whether or not ucsd name carries much weight in the silicon valley (where i plan to live and find a job)
-unknown if there are many summer internships available to ucsd students who plan on going back to norcal over summer
-expensive off campus housing
-comp science is not ABET accredited</p>

<p>davis
pros:
-distance to home
-largest internship program in nation (dont know if most of them are in tech field)
-recognizable within the silicon valley tech industry
-cheaper off campus housing
-most ABET accredited majors including comp science</p>

<p>cons:
-lower ranked school and engineering school</p>

<p>so which campus would be better for me if i were looking to find a job straight out of college within the silicon valley? (i might do grad school later on) will the interships from davis help me more than the ranking of ucsd and if i got to ucsd will i be able to find summer internships in norcal?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>Addressing cons of UCSD:
UCSD likely carries more weight than Davis. While Davis may be closer, SD is still more well known, and considered part of the 1st tier of the UCs while Davis is not.
I read on these boards that accreditation does not matter at all for CS.</p>

<p>I don’t understand your question about internships. Are you saying that UCSD provides internships if you stay in san diego during the summer? Or just about the availability of internships in northern CA? </p>

<p>The people running the internships would respect UCSD more than Davis even if Davis is closer.</p>

<p>i am taking about the availability of interships in norcal to sd students since ucsd is located in socal and alot of their corporate partners are located in socal as well</p>