<p>There isn’t really enough information here to make a meaningful evaluation. There are plenty of large CS / Physics schools that have a lot of research going on in those fields.</p>
<p>Does he plan on going to grad school afterwards in either of the disciplines? Also, just to clear things up, he wants to double major in both CS and physics, yes? That would be easily doable at any large university, since they are able to offer upper-division classes in the science/math fields.</p>
<p>I think to narrow down the search one would need to find a place where he would be happy at. Location-wise, rural or urban environment, prevalence of greek life on campus, etc. Physics cirriculum does not differ much from school to school so it doesn’t matter THAT much… Then I would suggest making a post in the college search forum as you’ll probably get more views there.</p>