MIT - Hands down.

Stay away from University of Toledo - Good School but not for CS

Texas Tech University has a decent program.

Texas Tech's website is terrible --- I can't find out how much it costs to go there, what their curriculum for CS is, or how to request information.

Maybe they need to spend some time on DIC ;-)

http://www.cs.ttu.edu/ <-- CS Department's main website.

And it's not that expensive. I want to say that I paid about $2500 for Fall '07. Classes only, I have an apartment off campus.

That's great - because I'm 100% on my own for paying (no parental support)

Student loans will become your best friend for a while....

Haha figured ;-)

Those and scholarships. How's the recruitment there --- my sister is studying physics at BYU and they had many, many people come in and try to recruit the physicists into internships.

This post has been edited by spearfish: 12 Mar, 2008 - 06:03 PM

Dunno. Haven't got that far.

Umass Amherst has a decent one for a state school.
I goto Wentworth Institute of Technology the CS stuff is good but all your non major classes blow.
I hear Northeastern's CS is alright but easy because it is a heavily engineering oriented university.

I'm going to Florida Inst. Of Tech at the moment, and they have one of the better programs as well. It's quite an expensive school (it's a private college), costing the uppers of $35k a year for CS, or any other engineering major. As for 'Top Schools' FIT has been rated within the top 5 for CS/Engineering the past 6 years in a row, right below MIT (FIT was actually started by MIT..), and I'll let you know now that it's a horribly hard school, but if you walk out of here with a diploma, you wont ever need to find a job, they will fight over you.

Also, this is a BIG Microsoft campus, we have three Microsoft labs where we test products, as in they give them to us to destroy, which we do, lol. But being a CS or Compu Eng, or Elec Eng here will get you noticed by Microsoft and they will swoop in and pick you up as soon as your skill has reached their level (normally you're given an internship by your sophomore year). But they're not the only big name, we have so much more. Also, this campus is small, normally 25-35 kids per class which makes for a much better learning environment, and we also have a fully staffed Academic Support Center that is always open to your needs.

Check it out, and I hope you make the right choice for you!:
ww.fit.edu
or
www.cs.fit.edu <-- Compu Sci Main Page

Thanks, that's something I'll consider, though the $$$ is a lot. We're talking BIG student loans.

RIT is def one of the best. i have heard of people getting job offers is 6 figures before graduation. I'm not sure if it was CS or engineering, but its pretty expensive

I live right near there, so I'll definitely be visiting there.

Apparently 97% of their engineering students find a job within two weeks of graduating.

Teaching yourself "bit by bit" huh? Hehe pun intended?

Not intended but I suppose it came.

Once I tried to download an image in binary (don't know what I was thinking turning my FTP off of "automatic") and got angry when I couldn't open it up for editing. Just thought I'd share.

RIT, I am considering of going there.

I've heard the best about it. The campus is kind of ugly, but their buildings have excellent interior design work.

RIT for undergrad or grad?

Not sure. Still considering.