What are the best colleges for computer science?

2331clk
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:49:10 +0000

I agree with your argument in post 57, but I think you can substitute any school in the US (except 4 or 5) for CMU and you still would be correct. I think the same would be true if you asked students in the most highly ranked programs at Rice, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Chicago…if given the chance I think even at these schools most would be at Harvard if they could. And the Harvard kids wouldn’t be hankering to transfer to Duke, Chicago, Cornell, etc. The exceptions would be kids at Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford, that’s about it.

Plus I don’t think there’s much application overlap between CMU (even CS) and Harvard.