SCS - Brown or Carnegie Mellon?

tyralis
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:30:21 +0000

Choose CMU. To put it bluntly, you’ll be getting the best computer science education in the nation, along with fantastic recruitment opportunities and job options. Certainly CMU is going to be a harder curriculum, but that’s the reason our CS department is #1 in the nation, and Brown isn’t even in the Top 10.

That said, you’ll still get a top rate overall education at either school, but I highly encourage you to visit CMU before you dismiss it out of hand for lack of a social scene, which is something it definitely has. People who say that CMU students have no social life either aren’t trying at all or have never been here.

-A biased CMU student