<p>CS at UChicago certainly isn’t as strong as CMU, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, or UIUC and if you have the option to go to one of those places, think very carefully before turning it down. However, the CS department at UChicago is perfectly respectable and has some areas of real strength. Calling it “very questionable” is totally off the mark. </p>
<p>The most exciting CS jobs go to people who are 1. smart 2. have a solid theoretical and conceptual background in CS, and 3. who are demonstrably passionate about if. If you major in CS at UChicago, you’ve got 1 and 2. 3 is up to you. Of course, there are plenty of employers out there who just want someone who can code and knows the language/tool du jour. For those jobs, a more vocationally-oriented program is fine.</p>