Hopkins vs Berkeley for Undergraduate Computer Science

Apollo11
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:30:40 +0000

Here are my notes on each college:

University of California - Berkeley
-The Best Public College in the world
-California Weather and Opportunity
-Great teachers, decent location, but close to major cities
-Friendliest campus here

University of Southern California
-Huge alumni network
-Great Job opportunities

University of Toronto
-One of the best schools in Canada, but not amazing
-Good Location

University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
-Top 5 engineering school
-Top CS School in the country/Best Engineering Safety (That and Case Western)

Johns Hopkins University ( 30,000$ aid/year)
-Prestige
-The best finacial package
-Top in BME and great opportunities

Go to JHU. Nobody in the States gets a finacial package like that, you have to take advantage of it. However, if prestige isn’t important and you only want an education or plan to go directly to go to graduate school, look at Illinois. It will save you money and get you a CS Ivy education.

Ranks for CS:

1. Berkely (Nice job on getting in!)
2.Illinois (Dark Horse)
2.JHU (No one ever gets packages like that…)
4.USC (Alumni=Jobs)

2. Toronto (Nice city)

In conclusion, congrats on you insane package at JHU, they really want you. And JHU has a more real professors than graduate students and is absolutely amazing. It has prestige, alumni and great location.