Best univerisites for CS?

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Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:28:11 +0000

Princeton, Cornell are seen as the elite cs programs in the country
(Cornell has the stronger grad program but for undergrad, I recommend Princeton over it as Princeton is a fascinating school overall)
Followed by Columbia, Harvard, UPenn, Brown and the rest ~~

To be quite frank, all the ivy league provide fascinating education for CS. Sure most ivy are not as great in engineering but for comp sci, they are all top notch.
Many of my friends going through CS at Princeton, Upenn, and Columbia seemed to be able to get internships at places like facebook. So ya, for CS, ivy leagues offer top quality education

Now if u are considering also engineering… then I would state here that the ivy arent as great although still solid choices

Anyways, for CS, I say as college student, Carnegie Mellon hands down. This program is so fantastic that lets just say almost half the student body goes to Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft. Stanford is just as great but seriously, if u look at student ratio getting into these top companies, wow, Carnegie Mellon seems like quite far ahead at placing students to top places
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=2_BuVY6RA47z8QXJmoKACw&url=http://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2013-survey/pdfs-one-pagers/SCS%2520Post%2520Grad%2520Handout%25202013.pdf&ved=0CBwQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEvXHEpsCKC6JwjwZOkWrTUDvLY2A&sig2=z_WrqZ-sljdKC30OP-hIxQ

Seriously, companies like Google, amazon, Microsoft are so crapshots that if you attend most state schools in the us, you pretty have 0% chance unless you win some hackathon and despite all this, Carnegie has no problems landing just with median salary of 100k right out of college and up to 175k starting salary (although the cally area is much more expensive… it still reveals how much of top quality carnegie mellon cs is)

anyways, for cs, all the ivy are fascinating.
However…I recommend if possible, stanford and carnegie mellon and MIT (ucberkeley oos is too expensive and financial aid at all ivy should make it more affordable) for cs undergrad
For ivy, mainly … well… all (not so sure anout yale and dartmouth but im sure they are just as fantastic)
and just so you know, for ivy, facebook has its office at princeton, brown, cornell so ya, ivy for cs are highly reputable.