UNC vs UW-Madison vs UMD for Computer Science

MYOS1634
Fri, 22 May 2015 10:09:36 +0000

All three are excellent; both Madison and Chapel Hill are quintessential college towns, with Madison having an edge in terms of internships for CS and Chapel Hill having an edge for weather. Note that both are going to suffer MAJOR funding cuts, those to Wisconsin have already been decided (someone calculated that the funding cuts would be equivalent to closing the school of engineering and the nursing school.)
In the end, I’d choose UMD, because for an international student its location is better: major airport, public transportation, easy access to most of the East Coast’s major cities.
Also, no funding cuts that I know of (and in fact there should be some funding influx to the CS school at least).
Will you be allowed to live in a dorm? Does any of these three have a Living Learning Community for transfers, so that you’re acclimated quickly into the university’s culture?