Little Brother will be heading off to college in a year and a half, and right now he doesn't know where he'd like to go. (By the way, for those of you who have met my little brother--this isn't him I'm talking about. It's the other little brother. Mr. Funny is precocious, but not precocious enough to be in college by sixteen.) Little Brother is probably going to be a computer science major and he wants to stay west of the Rockies. So I turn to you, fellow Jatraqueros. What schools toward the western end of the U.S. have good CS programs? Or are just a lot of fun to spend four years at?
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
UC Berkeley, Davis, and Riverside are awesomeness for CS. What would he rather have large school or small? What specific branch of CS? Satyagraha
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
UCLA, on both counts.
Go Bruins! Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
He doesn't really have a preference about size, public/private, or location besides being somewhat close to home. I have no idea what branch of CS he's interested. He probably doesn't either. What branches are there?
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
University of California at San Diego. Besides being one of the earliest campuses to give all students access to computers, and one of the first campuses to be located on an Internet spine (I think only CalTech, ?UCLA or USC?, and possibly ?Berkeley or Stanford? preceded it), UCSD also runs one of the oldest and most powerful Supercomputer Centers.
And LaJolla is a GREAT place to live: An extremely safe neighborhood (crime reports in the LaJollaLight newspaper were usually on the order of "Woman forgot purse on park bench, and returned from sunbathing on the beach to find it missing.") unlike UCLA or USC. Plenty of recreational activities, both outdoor recreation (hang/paragliding and surfing/snorkeling/etc a very short walk from campus, 2to3hour drive to ski resorts, etc) and commercial entertainment of all sorts readily available at all times of the year. So "I'm bored out of my mind" alcohol binging and other extreme substance abuse is much less common in UCSD students than in students at most other campuses nationwide.
And ya wouldn't believe how many different NAMES-respected-in-their-field and celebrities one meets, or at least sees occasionally, in LaJolla. Heck, I even got to converse with Dr.Seuss in the way back when.
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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
How about ASU?
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Older brother says that he is leaning more towards computer engineering instead of computer science. Just an FYI.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, in that case, I revise my suggestion. UCLA is a good school for engineering too; but Caltech is an engineer's paradise.
And I hear the head of the math/physics department is a pretty nice guy.
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Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
Harvey Mudd. And Stanford.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I have heard very good things about Harvey Mudd.
From people I know who go there, though, Stanford is very much a computer science school, not so much a computer engineering school. Of course, its excellent for computer science, so I doubt someone who went there would have a hard time putting together a computer engineering-ish computer science schedule.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
It's east of the rockies, and not even in the country, but the University of Waterloo is one of the best in the world for Comp Eng, Comp Sci, and Software Engineering (unique faculty-program to UW). And I'm not biased at all, no not in the slightest... Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
If money is no object, go to Sanford or USC.
If money is at least an issue, establish residence in California then go to UCSB or UC Berkeley.
I had a great time at USC, by the way. I could recommend a Pscyh prof to take a course or two from.
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