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There are some great people in the NYU CS dept, but it (and I assume Columbia) are simply not in the same league as Stanford and MIT. Neither of the NYC based
by wdewind 16y ago
There are some great people in the NYU CS dept, but it (and I assume Columbia) are simply not in the same league as Stanford and MIT. Neither of the NYC based schools are top 20 much less top 10 engineering programs.
I agree re: bureaucratic inertia. If you throw money at the same people who built these programs you'll end up with a disaster. Throw some to the people who refused to be part of that nonsense (ie: actual industry leaders) and you'll get much farther.
- krschultz 16y agoWell, Columbia is on paper 18th. But I have 2 co-workers who are Columbia grads (1 CS, 1 ME) and when comparing back it sounds like I had a far better experience at a state school for half the money.
- wdewind 16y agoIf you aren't going to MIT, CMU or Stanford, don't bother going to school to learn CS.
- gte910h 16y agoHuh? There are plenty of great programs elsewhere. I know few people who graduated with an undergraduate degree with more experience actually working on robots than people from Georgia Tech. I don't think youknow enough about degrees, degree programs or the state of education elsewhere in the country to even know how little you know about it. Sure there are lots of schools that are basically nothing more than basic java training centers, but there are lots of great schools out there with very smart guys.