Yale vs UT Austin Honors for CS

roycroftmom
Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:39:41 +0000

And it shocks most people to learn that most Ivy schools aren’t that highly regarded in computer science. They were relatively late to the game, seriously underfunded at Yale,and lack the breadth of some of the big public powerhouses. So overall as a university, Yale is far better, but for computer science, UT, particularly with Turing, is much better. Don’t expect to find summer jobs either your first or second year at Yale CS-my relatives classmates didn’t, even from the top 20% of the class. Yes, he was pretty shocked too. Thought the results would be much better. If however you may not stay in computer science, then Yale has good alternatives. And no, the number of UT folks at FAANG isn’t due to its size, it is simply a better computer department, just as Wharton is overrepresented in Wall St for the strength of its finance dept. Departmental strength matters a lot.