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It seems to assume people who read a CS professor's blog or a site called Hacker News will know Carnegie Mellon University, given that it has consistently hoste
by jsolson 10y ago
It seems to assume people who read a CS professor's blog or a site called Hacker News will know Carnegie Mellon University, given that it has consistently hosted a top-5 CS program for the last 20+ years.
- countryqt30 10y agoYeah, but it is VEEERY poor in all the other fields. World rank eighty something? xD
- Arcten 10y agoNot all the fields; both its Drama and its Robotics programs are very good, among others.
- tropo 10y agoThey work well together. The drama students like wearing costumes (for example, robot costumes) and even the dumbest drama student is still way better than the typical robot AI. It's all an act.
- jsolson 10y agoUS News ranks it #23 of domestic schools. It has top-10 graduate programs in Compute, Mechanical, Electrical, and Environmental engineering with an overall engineering school ranking of #5. It has a top-10 fine arts program (#6). It is weaker (not in the top 25) for pure sciences and applied math, although it's #11 for discrete math and combinatorics likely due to the CS program. It's business school ranks #7 for undergrad and has top-10 graduate programs for information systems, operations, and logistics. So, by and large, it's actually a fantastic university if you want to be an engineer, a computer scientist, an artist, or a business person. It certainly isn't "VEEERY poor" in all other fields.
- Nimitz14 10y agoI wonder what words you'd use to describe an average university, seeing as you use 'VEEERY poor' for one that's apparently rank 80ish (out of the thousands if not tens of thousands that exist).