Princeton vs Columbia vs Brown for CS

ucbalumnus
Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:37:32 +0000

You may want to check the courses, curricula, and research activity offered in each school’s computer science department to see if any of them have something of particular interest to you that the others do not have.

In addition, you may want to ask the career centers of each school about job and graduate school placement for computer science majors. The computer science departments may also have some information in this area. Note that the Ivy League schools tend to be heavily recruited by investment banking employers (jobs pay well, but [may be hazardous to your health](Warning: Banking May Be Hazardous to Your Health - WSJ)), and may not be as heavily recruited by computer industry employers, due to smaller numbers of computer science majors (compared to big state schools) and more competition from investment banking employers.