What are the best schools to get a degree in Computer Sciences/Programming from?

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What are the best schools to get a degree in Computer Sciences/Programming from?
Honestly it depends on what your interests are and what kind of student you are. The "top" schools are those that receive the most research funding, so your instructors will very likely view teaching as an annoying distraction. You will have to be a real self starter, very disciplined, and very bright. Your instructors will not coddle you or give you second chances. They just don't have time. On the other hand, you may be able to take advantage of opportunities at such institutions that are not available elsewhere, and of course the degree will carry a lot of weight with employers or graduate schools.








For a very high quality undergraduate educational experience, you might want to look at a private 4 year college rather than a larger research institution. These schools can be very expensive but their primary mission is education, so you'll probably have a more pleasant undergraduate experience. Good 4 year institutions also carry weight with grad schools and employers.





I'll include a link below that will let you rank 108 CS graduate schools. You may be asking about an undergraduate degreee, and this data is from 1994, but it might give you some ideas. If you're an excellent student, be sure to pay attention to schools like UT-Austin, Utah, Virginia, etc., which aren't quite as famous to the layperson as MIT, but are very well respected by people in the field.
Reply:MIT, Caltech, Stanford.
Reply:First you need to determine what PART of the field you are interested in. Then you need to see what you can afford. Then look up the colleges and find out which has what you need, in your price range. (MANY small colleges are just as good as the major name colleges in certain fields!)





Since I learned by doing, back when computers used vacumn tubes, I did not have your problem. I finally went to a "local" college where I was living at the time and got a degree because I got tired of being asked "What college did you go to?"; AFTER I solved problems for them.


Before that my answer was "What's a college?", which seemed to upset some of these college trained "idiots"!!





A college degree will give you a "starting point" but it will still take experience to learn the best way to do some things; AND you NEVER stop learning!