How valuable is a UW Computer Science degree?

These are very different places. Are you full pay?

No doubt Wisconsin has better computer science, but I would also argue, if you are full pay, you can pretty much do 5 years of Wisconsin at the same cost as 4 years of Bowdoin, and you can potentially have your cake and eat it too because Wisconsin is an academic powerhouse in terms of faculty quality in most areas, and Madison is just about the most beautiful campus I’ve ever seen (in May and July). Though neither of my kids chose Wisconsin, they both applied and considered doing a 3-2 program where both liberal arts and engineering would be in the same place so they wouldn’t have to uproot your life to do something like that.

Bowdoin is a liberal arts college and is a very different environment.