Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
typical runner wrote:
OP: don't necessarily look for the school that is best at both, look for the school that is the best fit at both for you. This needs to include things like the lifestyle of the school. For example, if you are a quiet and studious type, you will not enjoy somewhere like UC Santa Barbara, despite it being a solid academic school.
Because the CS/CE/EE students there are party animals?
First post on second page has three big name schools. If you do well at those schools, you are usually in good shape. Public "flagship" schools with hundreds of students in intro math/science classes will not be easy though.
Some lunatic wrote:
Do EE and take some programming language electives. Comp a I is a weak major.
Comp Sci Beeithes! They always sleep on us. We make the world go round. EE can eat a D&*%. Comp Sci is where it's at
xenonscreams wrote:
Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
Any other DIII schools on par academically and athletically with MIT? (i'm guessing not)
xenonscreams wrote:
Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
Any other DIII schools on par with MIT athletically and academically?
Stanford by far. UC Berkeley would be second.
go somewhere you can run well, and don't worry too much about the school's national CS ranking. undergrad CS degrees don't mean too much, so enjoy the college experience. wait for grad school to pick the best and focus on the academics.
cs kid wrote:
xenonscreams wrote:Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
Any other DIII schools on par with MIT athletically and academically?
I don't think so, particularly for a computer science major.
I was an undergraduate at MIT many years ago, and one of my degrees was in computer science and engineering. I also ran cross-country, indoor track, and outdoor track. I believe that both the computer science program and the running program at MIT have changed a great deal since I was a student there, but I think that the changes would, on the whole, make the experience more pleasant and rewarding for you.
By the way, if I were simply choosing the best combination of a national-class running program and a national-class computer science program, I'd choose Stanford. I give the academic edge to MIT, but Stanford obviously has vastly more experience with national-class running talent. And for MIT's sake, I hope it stays that way. I'm still bothered by the athletic department's ability to influence admissions decisions, which wasn't the case when I was a student there. In fact, the cross-country and track programs did absolutely no recruiting; they simply worked with whoever showed up on the first day of practice. I can't say that I enjoyed MIT, but I respected its purity as an academic institution.
doesn't matter wrote:
go somewhere you can run well, and don't worry too much about the school's national CS ranking. undergrad CS degrees don't mean too much, so enjoy the college experience. wait for grad school to pick the best and focus on the academics.
Where you go is pretty important for connections, though. If you go into industry, a lot of big companies have lists of schools that they do their recruiting from, and it's hard to get noticed if you're somewhere else. For grad school, you want a letter of recommendation from a well-known professor, which is hard if you go to a school that isn't well-known for their program.
cs kid wrote:
xenonscreams wrote:Stanford, Berkeley, and UW are all very good for CS. Out of the ivies, I think Harvard is the best for CS, but I'm not sure what their team looks like. MIT has a super legit D3 team, at least for women, not sure about men.
Any other DIII schools on par with MIT athletically and academically?
Carnegie Mellon
If you're in California and have good grades, I'd look into Stanford, Cal, UC Davis, Cal Poly. All have strong CS programs and competitive running teams (Cal not so much, but still). And all are close to Silicon Valley/have Bay Area alum connections.
You would compete well at the D2 level. Colorado School of Mines has a great CS program and the xc team has been top 5 at NCAAs the last several years.
Illinois, Washington
The research foundation which made twitter.com was initially invented at UC Irvine
doesn't matter wrote:
go somewhere you can run well, and don't worry too much about the school's national CS ranking. undergrad CS degrees don't mean too much, so enjoy the college experience. wait for grad school to pick the best and focus on the academics.
Not good advice for computer science.
1. There's not much advantage to getting a grad degree in computer science
2. Reputation is important for your first job out of undergrad. Big companies recruit at a limited number of schools. The obvious top names are MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon. Beyond that, there's a group of schools that are very strong and look good on your resume. Mostly flagship state schools. e.g. Illinois, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Berkeley and a few of the other Cal Campuses, Washington. If you want an Ivy degree, Cornell, Princeton, or Harvard, but there's no real advantage of an Ivy over the other schools I list in CS. After your first job it's all about what you've done professionally. Nobody will care where you got your degree.
well..... wrote:
doesn't matter wrote:go somewhere you can run well, and don't worry too much about the school's national CS ranking. undergrad CS degrees don't mean too much, so enjoy the college experience. wait for grad school to pick the best and focus on the academics.
Not good advice for computer science.
1. There's not much advantage to getting a grad degree in computer science
2. Reputation is important for your first job out of undergrad. Big companies recruit at a limited number of schools. The obvious top names are MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon. Beyond that, there's a group of schools that are very strong and look good on your resume. Mostly flagship state schools. e.g. Illinois, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Berkeley and a few of the other Cal Campuses, Washington. If you want an Ivy degree, Cornell, Princeton, or Harvard, but there's no real advantage of an Ivy over the other schools I list in CS. After your first job it's all about what you've done professionally. Nobody will care where you got your degree.
Good advice here. If you do well in school, you'll have plenty of options for employment upon graduation and should never have a hard time finding employment throughout your career.
Are there any schools that have good computer science with a good electrical engineering add on then?
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankingscs kid wrote:
Are there any schools that have good computer science with a good electrical engineering add on then?
^MIT is number 2
UW Seattle