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With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Success a Tad Overhyped?
- adpoe 10y agoThere are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school). So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale. Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway. But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College
- Hydraulix989 10y agoAn inordinate amount of the college spam emails I received after getting a top score on the SAT while I was in high school were from HM (and a few other schools like Colorado School of Mines and Drexel). It was actually a turn-off.
- msingle 10y agoIt's been a while since I checked the numbers but Harvey Mudd alumni are the most likely to get terminal degrees of any school in the world, meaning this CS program will punch far above its weight as far as future professors/researchers go.
- harry8 10y agoZawinski rule on headlines ending in a question mark: Respond "No." Move on.
- qohen 10y agos/Zawinski/Betteridge/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
- j7n 10y agoHarvey Mudd students seem to only have 9 actual majors to choose from, vs 100+ at some other colleges. https://www.hmc.edu/academics/ https://www.hmc.edu/academics/