UIUC vs CMU for undergraduate Computer Science

Rivet2000
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:41:09 +0000

My feedback was to go to UIUC and let parents buy house, but here are a few other data points.

CMU offers depth in some areas that UIUC cannot match

The first positions that college grads take are important in that it sets them up to gain relevant experience.

I’m not sure about the average salary numbers being thrown around, but our S recently finished his job search for his first position (CS). All of his offers were well above $90k in base pay alone (think almost double), all offers were in research groups within his target companies, locations on east coast, west coast, and one in middle America.