UPenn vs Rice for CS

1NJParent
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:37:52 +0000

sgopal2:

Getting internships and jobs are mainly dependent on your coding schools. Prestige of the undergrad school doesn’t matter really. Many companies even hire people without degrees.

If OP is interested in a career as a programmer. Either of these two schools will be more than sufficient. I agree that prestige isn’t a factor and people without CS degree (or any degree) can become a successful programmer.

alpha_lower_really:

Career Goals: … Maybe a Machine Learning Engineer later in life.

alpha_lower_really:

Only 35 cs faculty [at Rice] so less diverse options for research. (though they have 6 people in ML which is quite broadly what I’m interested in at the moment).

However, OP seems to be more interested in machine learning. Neither school is a powerhouse in that discipline but Rice offers very few such courses (at any level) while UPenn at least offers a few more ML-related courses (at the graduate level).