Good West Coast Computer Science Schools to transfer to??

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yeedog

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Hey all, I recently decided that I want to transfer to a new school for this fall. I've been looking at schools, but i can't find much on the west coast in the way of good CS schools. There is a lot on the east coast, but the west coast has been limited to California Schools.

So i was thinking maybe all you computer people might know of some good schools on the west coast. I found rankings on usnews.com, but they were mainly all east coast schools on that Computer Science list.

I was contimplating Univ of Colorado - Boulder, but i could only find that they were a strong Engineering school and CS is not Engineering.

I hope you guys can give me some good schools to look at :)


thanks!
 
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BruinEd03

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Mmmm as for cs not being engineering...we have CS and CSE at UCLA under the engineering dept. We also have EECE here =)

Oh...if you don't like california schools...I heard University of Washington has a pretty good program too cuz they get sponsored by Microsoft or something (hey...Redmond, WA is close by)

-Ed
 
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yeedog

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it's not that i'm against CA school, but all of their transfer dates were due like last november for this fall. So those schools don't help much at this point as i would like to trasfer for Fall 2002

I didn't know washington was sponsored by Microsoft , that's intresting....

Well CS really has nothing to do with engineering so I seperate them in my mind, plus my current school has CS in the physical science college and not the engineering college that probably leads to how i think too.

 
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Come here to Oregon State! ;)

Actually, the Engineering department here thinks they can get in the top 25 for Engineering departments in the country in the next 10 years. So they are putting a lot of money into the department which is cool.
 
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b0mbrman

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<< Cal Tech >>



I have a friend who goes there who hates it...He says he's getting a good education but the tradeoff in his social life wasn't worth it...
 
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b0mbrman

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<< Come here to Oregon State! ;)
Actually, the Engineering department here thinks they can get in the top 25 for Engineering departments in the country in the next 10 years. So they are putting a lot of money into the department which is cool. >>



Ah yes...have you checked out those lists yet?
 
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UC irvine has a very good CS department i hear...actually they have their own school of computer science. so the CS is not under school of engineering but is its own school in the college which allows more flexibility with minors and other stuff. maybe someone from UCI can help out. UC san diego is also a good school. UC santa barbara's dept has improved recently as well. personally, i think all the UC have good CS departments. remember tho that at a UC, the faculty's main purpose at the university is their own research. if you're interested in faculty that spend more of their time teaching than research, you could apply to any of the cal-state universities, like cal-poly as someone mentioned.

i go to UCLA btw. my major is CSE, which is supposedly 60% CS 40%EE... remember if you live outside of the state you go to school you will pay about 10,000 dollars more. i think thats for public universities only but im not sure. so like tuition at a University of California is about 4K, you owuld be paying 14K just for tuition.

but i guess all this wont help you muhc, bcz california schools had their application dates in november as you mentioned. maybe someone else could benefit.

good luck.
 
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Logix

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<< You could always apply to Cal >>


It's what I'm doing. I don't really have much to compare it to though. :)
 
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I was contimplating Univ of Colorado - Boulder, but i could only find that they were a strong Engineering school and CS is not Engineering.
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Well, at University of Colorado-Boulder, the CS program is in the engineering school. If you want a school outside of CA, then it is one of the better ones. Other west and midwest schools with decent CS programs are University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 
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milagro

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University of Arizona is good also...but really, when its all said and done, no one will give a rip about where you went to school and any large institution w/ a CS program should provide a good foundation for you to start learning after you graduate;)
 
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hans007

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i dont really think the CS dept is that great at ucla, some of the teachers are really good and some of them are super bad. the school is great though.
 
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ucdnam

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Check out the US New and Review. I know they're supposedly biased, but a review is better than none at all.
Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (At schools with Ph.D. Programs)

I do see a lot of west coast schools.
Stanford, UCB, CalTech, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCSB, USC, UCI...

Engineering is as good as CS, because what good is a CS program without a decent engineering program? I'd think they go hand in hand.

I went to UCD and and I know that there is the CS degree which is ran out of the college of Letters and Sciences and then there's the CSE degree from Engineering. The CSE is a lot harder requiring more engineering courses. I started in CSE, but couldn't cut it and finished with a BS in biology LOL
 
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CSoup

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<< University of Arizona is good also...but really, when its all said and done, no one will give a rip about where you went to school and any large institution w/ a CS program should provide a good foundation for you to start learning after you graduate;) >>



For engineering or CS any big school should be fine. As long as they have faculty who actually do research and publish in the field then the program should be decent. Just don't go to a school like this for a CS degree.
 
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