UIUC vs CMU for undergraduate Computer Science

PurpleTitan
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:39:56 +0000

Here’s a good summary of CMU vs UIUC from someone who attended both for undergrad (and jibes with what I know of the 2 programs)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/65lk09/reasons_to_attend_uiuc_over_cmu_for_computer/

UIUC has strong relationships with and pipeline in to industry.

CMU more theoretical. UIUC weaker in NLP, ML, robotics and stronger in systems.

CMU is more stressful (some would say toxic) and has some true geniuses. UIUC has a lot of good software engineers and is more collaborative (CMU more competitive). Also, the lower end at UIUC is lower than the lower end at CMU.

Aside:
CMU sounds like (old school) MIT (which makes sense).