SUNY Binghamton, UConn, or UDelaware for computer science?

hornetdad
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:48:03 +0000

My son found the UConn campus very attractive but isolated. There’s not much in Storrs, CT besides UConn! He loved Delaware–beautiful campus and a nice street near campus with lots of restaurants. He ended up feeling Delaware was too far from home (Mass.). He’s in engineering so we didn’t look at the computer science aspect. He didn’t look at Binghamton, so I can’t help you there.

What’s your net cost of attendance for each school after scholarships are taken into account? I know the SUNY’s are very reasonable for in-state students so you would have to get good scholarships from Delaware and UConn to make the cost equivalent. Will you have to borrow money to attend? What are your parents willing/able to pay? My gut feeling is that if UDel and UConn are significantly more than Bing and cost is an issue for you, it may make sense to go to Bing, assuming their compsci program isn’t drastically inferior to the other 2.

Hopefully other can comment on the compsci programs at these schools.