US Students Applying to UK schools (Discussion Thread)- 2016-2017!

PurpleTitan
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:19:18 +0000

Note that by the 4th year at Edinburgh Informatics, you’ll be taking essentially grad-level classes, so it’s great that you love CS.
First year (and maybe all years) of Imperial CS is 30 hours of classtime a week or so. This might be de rigueur for CS in England.
In the US, where in good CS programs, 1 class = 3 hours lecture/week + 10-20 hours for project/homework/study a week (and taking 3-4 CS classes in the same term is seen as a tough schedule), that would be considered an insane amount of classtime. English CS programs may not feature as much project work, though.