knowyours1it

The author should not be going to MS without knowing what he/she wants to do. You are going into a grad school and do not seem to know anything about the industry. You are comparing apple and orange. 1. Cornell Tech is not prestigious as NYU Courant when it comes to CS program; actually Cornell tech do not have any CS program. You are comparing computer science program to Information system science program(hybrid with management in tech). This should not even be comparison. If you wanna compare Cornell to NYU then you should do Cornell Itacha MS CS program to NYU MS CS program(Tandon and Courant Both rank higher than Cornell Tech). Cornell Tech is a brand new school and it is not engineering school. As long as you are in top 50 MS CS program, it is all same stuff unless you are going into PHD program in top 5. Then again, your ultimate goal is gaining a job in tech firm or making your own tech firm, it is totally up to your ability to make that happen. I saw too many people coming into MS CS program without knowing how to code even a easy question in Leetcode. Seriously all tech firm make you do coding assessment at all level and for all jobs related to backend, fullstack, front end, machine learning, AI, data science, data analytic, and the schools never teaches. So basically it is your ability to get the job. Second, CMD Data Science is not computer Science either. What are you trying to do??? are you going for software engineering, AI, Machine learning??? or just trying to get a a job in tech firms? Data Science is so far from computer science, they are not really technical in terms of AI, and Machine learning, software engineering, and algorithm analysis. Data science is the field that connects between stat modeling and CS but it is hardly technical as long as you have some math background. I just can't believe people compare CS program to DS program because of the school name. CMD is good CS school but there are plenty of cash cow major like DS that people know in the industry. At the end of the day they are not drastically make you look smart. Only really hard program to get in is MIT, Caltech, and Stanford for MS CS. Everything else align with GRE score 315-330 with relevant experiences. So stop talking about being reputation lol