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I don't think the standards are lower (certainly they weren't at Princeton) -- University standards may not perfectly align with the job market, perhaps?
by mrcactu5 10y ago
I don't think the standards are lower (certainly they weren't at Princeton) -- University standards may not perfectly align with the job market, perhaps?
- vkou 10y agoMaybe they aren't lower at Princeton, but it's entirely possible to coast through a CS degree at a decent university, showing up to class maybe half the time. I'm, ah, quite familiar with some, ahem, people who did just that.
- presidentender 10y agoYour humblebragworthy alma mater is not Flyover State University, home of the Footballs. The Princetons and Stanfords and MITs of the world don't have the bandwidth to fill the industry's demand.
- muninn_ 10y agoMeh, not all the great programs are on the coasts. Any Big 10 school (carrying on with the football reference lol) is going to be at least decent, and a few are world class: Carnegie Mellon (not a Big 10 school I know) #1 globally Michigan Illinois Northwestern Purdue Wisconsin Ohio State to name a few.
- jacoblambda 10y agoI can say that Carnegie Mellon is definitely ranked nationally a Top 10 university in computer engineering and/or computer science.
- CompanionCuube 10y ago>I can say that Carnegie Mellon is definitely ranked nationally a Top 10 university in computer engineering and/or computer science. And it is just one of the numerous examples of non-coastal universities who run quality undergraduate programs producing graduates with the tech skills mentioned by the article.
- muninn_ 10y agoGeneral consensus that I've seen is that it is not just top 10 but number 1 across the entire planet.