This has not been the case the last 10 years in most of the top 50 programs. Capstone projects and senior seminar classes often touched upon more "serious" topi

This has not been the case the last 10 years in most of the top 50 programs. Capstone projects and senior seminar classes often touched upon more "serious" topics. I've seen classes focusing on projects related to distributed/cloud computing, complex web apps, or then often hot-topic of the year technologies (game AI, computer vision, machine learning)