How good is Penn State for Computer Science

jlhpsu
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:18:27 +0000

CalmingTea:

They will not even look at a branch campus but respect UP…

This person clearly doesn’t know much about the commonwealth campuses. The commonwealth campus degrees for majors that are also at UP are the same classes and program as UP, so it’s absolutely no different Except you won’t have 800 people in your first class at a commonwealth campus. Also, your diploma says “Penn State”. MANY students choose to start at commonwealth campuses, or stay there all 4 years, because the support and smaller classes help students get through the weed-out classes. Those that thought they were “too good” for the commonwealth campuses are those that are likely failing out by Thanksgiving and changing their major at UP, while the commonwealth campus students have gotten through the weed out courses and can go to UP after 2 years (or not!) and finish and actually have a computer science degree.

CalmingTea:

My point is, if your kid can make it through the gauntlet, it is a very well respected degree even so much so that people from Google know it exists, which is quite something for an east coast public college.

One of the many reasons Google knows about Penn State, other than they are a globally ranked university, is because they have a headquarters in Pittsburgh, 2 hours away.