Great Computer Science Colleges

College Search & Lists
1

<p>Hello, everyone? I hope you guys will help me a lot. I am an international student and want to major in CS, especially I’m interested in computer networking, IT and computer programming. And I have a long list of colleges that I have to choose from. Just 8 of them. Can you sort it out to the last 8 with good CS reputation with little background?

  1. Berea College 2. Brandeis University 3. Carleton College</p>

<p>4.College of St. Catherine 5.College of Wooster 6. Colorado College</p>

<li><p>Connecticut College 8. DePauw University 9. Drake University</p></li>
<li><p>Grinnel College 11. Harvard University 12. Haverford College</p></li>
<li><p>Idaho State Uni 14. International Uni of Bremen</p></li>
</ol>

<p>15.Ithaca College 16. Lafayette College 17. Lawrence University</p>

<p>18.Luther College 19. Middlebury College 20. Mt Holyoke College</p>

<li><p>Oberlin College 22. Pomona College 23. Reed College</p></li>
<li><p>Smith College 25. Swarthmore College 26. Trent University</p></li>
<li><p>University of Maine 28. University of Missouri 29. Uni of Pennsylvania</p></li>
<li><p>Wharton College 31. Viterbo College 32.Wartburg College</p></li>
<li><p>Wesleyan University 34. Whitman College 35. Williams College</p></li>
<li><p>Yale University</p></li>
</ol>

2

<p>I have just found out that some colleges in the list are called Little Ivies. Read this <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies&lt;/a&gt;.
If one doesn’t want to read, let me list them here.
Connecticut College
Haverford College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan College
Williams College.
Is any of them good at CS? I mean great – I want to get a job after graduating. kk</p>

3

<p>C’mon everyone!! 10 views and no reply at all.
PS: I want to know about Georgia Tech’s CS programme. I would really appreciate your ideas. Thanks a bunch.</p>

4

<p>Wesleyan (that’s <em>University</em> even though it is a little ivy) has a pretty good cs department; it’s part of the Math department:
<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/catalog/matht.htm[/url]”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/catalog/matht.htm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

5

<p>Harvard has an excellent reputation in general. =P
UPenn and Carleton have good math departments, but I don’t know about CS.</p>

<p>Harvey Mudd and Carnegie Mellon aren’t on your list, but they’re definitely at the top for Computer Science.</p>

6

<p>Reed doesn’t have a CS department or major, but has a CS dual-degree program with University of Washington and Oregon Health and Science University.</p>

7

<p>Add Harvey Mudd to the list!</p>

8

<p>I’ve never heard about Harvey Mudd (I’m not intending to offend – it’s just truth). Everyone says MIT, MIT, MIT!!! So Harvey Mudd should be good then, huh?</p>

<p>PS: What about Georgie Tech’s CS?</p>

9

<p>MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and Cornell (maybe Harvey Mudd) are pretty much the best CS departments in the country</p>

10

<p>Harvey Mudd’s CS department is high quality, but tiny. It doesn’t seem to really offer much in terms of course diversity, at least when compared to other departments.</p>

11

<p>I have heard of a list of top colleges in computer science much like post #9. I sometimes see the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign mentioned in that regard too.</p>

12

<p>Thanks, guys! Anymore ideas?</p>

13

<p>University of Washington has an excellent department. Same with Texas-Austin.</p>

14

<p>OP, you should know that Harvey Mudd is part of a consortium, along with Pomona College (on your original list). Whatever CS courses are available on either campus (and also on Claremont McKenna…I believe these are the only three with their own CS departments) will be available to students at either school. That said, Harvey Mudd’s campus atmosphere (and GE requirements) will be much more strongly geared toward CS (and other sciences/math/engineering), whereas Pomona is a more traditional LAC. For that matter, the other Claremonts would also allow you access to these CS facilities. Check <a href=“http://www.claremont.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.claremont.edu</a> to better understand the arrangement.</p>

15

<p>Whitman College is a great school, but does not offer a computer science major. </p>

<p>If you are interesed in doing CS in the Pacific Northwest, you should look at University of Washington (Seattle, WA: home of Microsoft, Amazon.com, etc.) or Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR: home of Hewlett Packard).</p>

16

<p>

Bill and Dave started the company in a garage in Palo Alto, where the company is headquartered today.</p>

17

<p>There are lots of threads listing the best computer science schools. Do a search on this forum for “computer science”. I agree with JustinTime, but there are several schools that can be added: UTexas, UCSD, UCLA, UCSB, Rice, UIUC, CalTech, definitely Harvey Mudd.</p>

18

<p>It’s just so pity that Carnegie Mellon doesn’t offer aid to int’l students. I was really interested in it and actually I am now. And thanks a bunch for the post and I’m going to review the schools above.
PS: My thread is open to anyone and I still want others’ opinion.</p>

19

<p>

It has been in the local papers recently that HP is making plans to move out of that garage soon into more appropriate company headquarters.</p>

20

<p>You mean news like this (Gazette-Times):</p>

<p>"This space for lease: HP will offer room for other companies on high-tech campus</p>

<p>There could be some new jobs soon at Hewlett-Packard’s Corvallis campus — even if it isn’t HP doing the hiring.</p>

<p>After years of downsizing, Hewlett-Packard has put two of the 11 buildings on its 140-acre Circle Boulevard complex — comprising more than 320,000 square feet of office and industrial space — up for lease…"</p>

<p>Or this (Corvallis Gazette-Times ):</p>

<p>"HP offers early retirement again
…
Hewlett-Packard is shrinking again. An estimated 150 to 300 HP Corvallis employees will leave the company by Thursday under the latest incentive package designed to reduce the global tech giant’s payroll…</p>

<p>As recently as 1996, Hewlett-Packard employed about 6,000 people in Corvallis, where the company’s hugely profitable inkjet printer technology was developed…</p>

<p>But those numbers dwindled steadily over the last decade as HP moved inkjet production to low-wage foreign countries, retooled other parts of its operations and moved to cut payroll through buyouts, severance offers and early retirement.</p>

<p>After Thursday, when the current enhanced early retirement program is complete, Hewlett-Packard will probably have about 2,500 Corvallis employees."</p>