Princeton, Yale, MIT or Stanford for CS

OREngineering
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:38:01 +0000

@angelakk: Here is a job profile synopsis of post-graduation plans for Princeton CS students. It seems that most of the students enter predominantly overall into the banking industry. I would assume that a significant number end up on Wall Street too.

[Computer Science«Office of Career Services « Princeton University](Search Opportunities | Human Resources)



Would you say that the business skills provided by the liberal education at Princeton can be obtained via majoring in econ or other business majors at MIT?



I’m not an expert on this but I found that leadership roles in student organizations, extracurricular activities, and internships throughout my high school career were the best conduits of learning and gaining business and entrepreneurial skills. I think that the campus which offers the most opportunities, in this sense, would bring out and hone one’s business and entrepreneurial abilities. I know that, at MIT and Stanford, initiating and joining innovative projects are a big part of the schools’ cultures.

I don’t know much about MIT. But I do know plenty about Stanford since I have a large number of friends who attend there. In fact, at Stanford, their CS classes stress both knowledge and application. My friend there who is a second-year this year at Stanford took a CS class where she and other students formed groups that had to build, program, and market (not simply within the class, but to the real world) an iPhone and Android app. The marketing side involved outreach through Facebook and Youtube. She has also interned at Microsoft and Boeing, which both recruit heavily at Stanford. Another friend I know there, who is also a second-year, is part of a school team that designs, builds, tests, and competes with an energy-saving solar car against other colleges like Berkeley. There is also a school-wide campus contest for designing and constructing the website portal for course scheduling.