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The SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard) is a actually surprisingly decent. The one thing that gets some people is that CS is taught from
by smanek 18y ago
The SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard) is a actually surprisingly decent. The one thing that gets some people is that CS is taught from a very mathematical bend - about a third of the CS classes don't require any significant work on a computer (besides typesetting the problem sets in TeX). I actually prefer it that way - I'd rather focus on theory in class, I can pick up the idiosyncrasies of the tools and languages on my own time.
I understand that Harvard's Math department is pretty impressive too (near the same level as MIT/Princeton/etc).
- tokenadult 18y agoI understand that Harvard's Math department is pretty impressive too Many people think that Harvard's math department is the best in the world.
- Xichekolas 18y agoIf you defined 'many people' I'd be much obliged. (Not challenging the assertion, just curious who.)
- tokenadult 18y agoThe sample I hear from about Harvard's undergraduate math program consists largely of participants on the Art of Problem Solving forum http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php?f=143 http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php?f=143 and those participants include many young people from various countries who have participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad.
- ninguem2 18y agoaccording to the latest u.s. news ranking http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mat/search http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mat/s... Princeton is first and Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Berkeley are tied for second. Harvard is always mentioned as one of the top Math depts. more so than MIT in my experience.
- smanek 18y agoDepending on who I'm talking to, I've heard that Princeton, MIT, and Harvard are each the best in the world (for undergrads). I'm not really in a position to judge, so let it suffice to say that all three are fairly impressive.