Stanford has an excellent computer _science_ department. A degree in computer science at Stanford will expose you to functional and object-oriented programming;

Stanford has an excellent computer _science_ department. A degree in computer science at Stanford will expose you to functional and object-oriented programming; it will give you a solid grounding in discrete mathematics, automata theory, and the design and analysis of algorithms; it will teach you the fundamentals of compiler and operating system design and implementation; you can also choose to take classes in computer security, networking, programming languages, artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, graphics, databases, human-computer interaction, and computational genomics, among other subjects. "Newer technologies" are offered, particularly in the CS193 classes. I wouldn't waste my time on them though; you can learn as much by reading documentation online. (The exception is the class on Objective-C and Cocoa. Final projects are presented to Apple engineers, and Apple does a fair amount of hiring from that class. If that's your thing...) Like I said, though, it's a computer science curriculum, not a "programming" or "web startup" curriculum. Everything you need to create a successful web startup you can probably teach yourself (c.f. Zuckerberg).