Top CS Universities

You're missing some major ones with top notch CS departments:* Carnegie Mellon* Berkley* MIT* Stanford* UIUC* WisconsinIf someone thinks s/he can get into Columbia or Brown, s/he has a shot at any of these.I'm bias, but I'll tell you a bit about UIUC. We've got something called work life balance (pretty much every party scene imaginable: frat, hacker, LGBT, sober, etc). We're also a top five CS program, ranked as the #1 most wired college by PC Magazine (2008), and rank

So called 'target' schools for CS are largely not elite. People will be impressed by a degree from Harvard or MIT but I doubt you'd ever get a reaction for UIUC or the University of Texas.

MIT, harvard etc are not the only universities in the world. and this has a pretty limited view of CS.

Any university city with a CS program where people do interesting work.

Princeton gets on some top 10 lists as well. But the point isn't that there's anything wrong with Harvard or the Ivies in general (you'll surely get a fine CS education at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn, maybe even Yale), the point is that the center of gravity in the tech startup world is right now at the schools with top-tier CS and Engineering departments, and it's not because they have some special "incubator" sauce that other universities don't, it's just that they attra

MIT and CMU are some of the top computer science schools worldwide, not everyone will be able to get into them.Also, University of Maryland (the school that the author is talking about here) is a really decent school with great faculty. So, its strange that this was the author's experience with some of the graduates.Shouldnt the students have pursued side projects outside of school to learn more about how to apply their knowledge in real life practical example.

While GT isn't MIT, it is highly rated. Last I heard, GT had the 7th highest ranked CS program in the world. It's a fraction of the price too.https://www.gatech.edu/about/rankings

You should try going to CMU School of Computer Science. Being a student at CMU is a lot harder than working at a certain large tech company I interned at, for example.

"Did your university have a strict cap on the number of undergraduates entering the CompSci program? No? Then your degree has absolutely zero leverage."The unquestioned top 4 CS schools in the world (especially so because people can't agree on what's the 5th, 6th, etc.) are in no particular order Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU and MIT. Of these 4, CMU is the only one I know with a cap (of 135 students). MIT has none, and if the admissions office judges that you can do the work (generally

Harvard has a relatively lower ranked CS program