Penn M&T vs. CMU SCS

Penn95
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:17:04 +0000

@fortunate2015 i am not a CIS major (but I am a SEAS major) so I don’t claim to be an expert on this. However judging from Penn’s overall culture my guess would be that the focus is more on practicality and application. Penn has a very entrepreneurial, pre-professional/culture. this is not to say that CIS instruction will be weak on theory, I mean theory is the foundation of everything but at Penn students tend to wanna go one step further and apply the theory practical issues, rather than learn theory for the sake of theory. Again this is not not say you will be at a disadvantage at Penn if you are more interested in theory rather than applications. The program itself will give you top notch theoretical instruction. just saying that at Penn you will meet a lot of people who will wanna apply this theory.