What are the top 10 IT colleges?

[Bird222]

What would you guys say the top 10 colleges in the US are for I guess networking and/or computer programming?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

The one at home/at your first workcenter where you learn how to actually do work.

 

[Homerboy]

ITT Tech. Duh

 

[CraKaJaX]

It depends on what website you read, who wrote the article, what year it was written, what time of year it was, what the writer had for breakfast that morning, and how much cash each University dished out to Business Week to gain a top seed in said article.

TL;DR - "Top 10" doesn't mean shit. Tour some campuses, talk to students, talk to professors, do your own research, see which school offers you the most dollars. Most notably the last one, as prices for school is through the roof these days.

 

[core2slow]

Best one is called...experience.

 

[cbrunny]

ITT Technical Institute!

 

[IronWing]

DeVry. Eddie Doucette said so.

 

[Bird222]

I know it's the internet and all but I wish I could get more serious answers. What are the good tech schools?

 

[lxskllr]

MIT

 

[Carson Dyle]

It's going to be the usual suspects for the top engineering schools. MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, Cornell, Caltech, Berkeley, etc.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Networking, IT, Computer Programming are all completely massively different areas.

 

[ImpulsE69]

ITT Tech. Duh

It's even got IT in its NAME!!!???

In all seriousness though....no school is going to make you good at IT. Plenty of experience+any IT school will do wonders. They don't care where you went, they want experience. Nothing beats it. No school is going to give you what you need to start an IT career beyond basic help desk. There's nothing wrong with that, you have to start somewhere....but 'networking' is a long ways off from that.

People are aware that out of school people don't know anything beyond the basics. Most of the easy stuff can be googled these days that anyone can do it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

What would you guys say the top 10 colleges in the US are for I guess networking and/or computer programming?

Are you looking for a trade school (programming, basic IT) or a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, etc. at a university?

A computer science degree is not really a "programming" degree, though you will do a fair amount of programming in class projects. A good degree will spend more time on theory and design than on "how to code."

 

[agent00f]

What would you guys say the top 10 colleges in the US are for I guess networking and/or computer programming?

The curriculum for most is all similar and quality of instruction really not that different for most undergrad, but more prestigious schools will attract better students (ie your peers).

 

[x26]

ITT Tech. Duh

^^ This ^^

 

[Bird222]

Are you looking for a trade school (programming, basic IT) or a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, etc. at a university?

A computer science degree is not really a "programming" degree, though you will do a fair amount of programming in class projects. A good degree will spend more time on theory and design than on "how to code."

Definitely a bachelor's degree. What's the difference between computer science and computer engineering?

 

[dr150]

ITT
AT&T
Devry
Corinthian
Trump U.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

There isn't a degree for 'IT', and don't let anyone lie and tell you there is. There's degrees for Computer Engineering where you become a Computer Engineer. If you aren't working on fabbing chips/boards or generating microcode though you probably aren't computer engineering. There's no systems administrator or network administrator degree. You have to just learn by doing.

Also, you need to clarify if you are looking to be a programmer or a network engineer, those are very different paths.

 

[Oyeve]

IT is way too broad a term.

 

[clamum]

Michigan Sausological, errr I mean Technological, University.

 

[core2slow]

If you're serious about working in IT, i'd highly suggest going to a trade school rather than your typical 4yr colleges. Reason i'm saying that is that the environment now is very competitive and the broader term of "IT" is very saturated, so you need to specialize in SOMETHING (storage, networking, virtualization (which i am)). Don't go into a 4yr and come out thinking that you'll be a sysadmin. It'll never going to happen and IT manager will question you if you have any extensive desktop support roles/duties leading to it. You're expected to know a bit of EVERYTHING if you're thinking of doing anything meaningful in IT, otherwise you'll be one of the millions who are doing desktop support for $15/hr with a BS degree.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

First you need to define what you mean by "best" tech schools. If all you're looking at is who gets paid the best, Ivy league is where it's always at.

 

[agent00f]

Definitely a bachelor's degree. What's the difference between computer science and computer engineering?

Definitions can vary by school, often as a result of where these newer programs stem from, for example some schools just call everything CE because it was an outgrowth of the EE dept. But generally if a school offers a choice CS is more software oriented (programming) while CE more hardware (logic/circuits).

If srs about this you should try to get into the best school you can, unless you're saving a lot of money with state U vs private or scholarship situation.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Information Institute of Technology

 

[Bird222]

There isn't a degree for 'IT', and don't let anyone lie and tell you there is. There's degrees for Computer Engineering where you become a Computer Engineer. If you aren't working on fabbing chips/boards or generating microcode though you probably aren't computer engineering. There's no systems administrator or network administrator degree. You have to just learn by doing.

Also, you need to clarify if you are looking to be a programmer or a network engineer, those are very different paths.

Computer programming.