tvn Posted July 21, 2006 Posted July 21, 2006 I am applying for Ph.D in Comp Sci Fall 2007 and looking forward to the fellowships. Anyone else ? Please try to keep each other posted on your progress as we all share the same situation
honey-bee Posted December 7, 2006 Posted December 7, 2006 Yes, I am, too. Which schools are you applying to?
tvn Posted December 7, 2006 Author Posted December 7, 2006 I applied to dozen of schools , cmu, uiuc, washu, caltech, gatech, umn, brown, uva, vtech, unm , umich, notre dame. What about you ?
staticvengeance Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 I am applyin for MS in CS applied to 9 schools:: purdue, USC, PENN STATE, tamu, NCState, ufl, asu, suny - stony brook, WashU
moneke Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 Has anyone heard back from UC Santa Barbara? I saw a posting on yuster a week ago from someone saying they got into their computer science program. When I log in to the admission site it still says there's no decision.
hnb Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Sadly I was rejected. After my request for some elucidation I received a response saying that there were 2500 applicants for 100 places. Indeed quite competitive.. Furthermore M.S. is even harder to get in since their main aim is research. So mainly PhD students get selected.. Hope this is a comforting thought for those who got rejected
bjauch Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 I just got rejected from Santa Barbara via their website.
moneke Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Sorry to hear about you guys not getting in, and those stats don't look encouraging (thats 4% acceptance -- I didn't expect it to be that competitive). When I log on to the website, the Decision line is still greyed out, which I guess means they haven't made a decision about me yet. I dunno... it's kind of weird. Still crossing my fingers, though...
moneke Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 those stats were for berkeley not ucsb... I thought that sounded like an awful lot of applications for UCSB!
Dorian Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 I recently applied to PhD programs in philosophy, but my brother is interested in applied to Computer Science PhD programs. Is there a ranking system of the top 50 similar to the Gourmet Report in philosophy? How do you find out what schools are good and what their specialties are? Thanks!
moneke Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 hey dorian: Here's a listing of rankings from US News and World Report along with rankings for three specialties. These rankings should be taken with a grain of salt, of course. It's always a good idea to take a look at what research is being done at different universities, the size of the program, etc. The highest ranked is not always the best fit for everyone. Computer Science (Ph.D.) Ranked in 2006* 1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 5.0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.0 Stanford University (CA) 5.0 University of California Berkeley 5.0 5. Cornell University (NY) 4.6 University of Illinoi Urbana-Champaign 4.6 7. University of Washington 4.5 8. Princeton University (NJ) 4.4 9. University of Texas Austin 4.3 University of Wisconsin Madison 4.3 11. California Institute of Technology 4.2 Georgia Institute of Technology 4.2 13. University of California San Diego 4.0 University of Maryland College Park 4.0 15. Harvard University (MA) 3.9 University of California Los Angeles 3.9 University of Michigan Ann Arbor 3.9 18. Columbia University (NY) 3.8 Purdue University West Lafayette (IN) 3.8 University of Pennsylvania 3.8 Yale University (CT) 3.8 22. Brown University (RI) 3.7 Rice University (TX) 3.7 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3.7 25. Duke University (NC) 3.6 University of Massachusetts Amherst 3.6 University of Southern California 3.6 28. Johns Hopkins University (MD) 3.5 29. New York University 3.4 Rutgers State University New Brunswick (NJ) 3.4 University of California Irvine 3.4 University of Virginia 3.4 33. Pennsylvania State University University Park 3.3 34. Ohio State University 3.2 SUNY Stony Brook 3.2 University of California Santa Barbara 3.2 University of Chicago 3.2 University of Colorado Boulder 3.2 University of Minnesota Twin Cities 3.2 40. Dartmouth College (NH) 3.1 Northwestern University (IL) 3.1 University of Arizona 3.1 University of California Davis 3.1 University of Rochester (NY) 3.1 University of Utah 3.1 Washington University in St. Louis 3.1 47. Indiana University Bloomington 3.0 North Carolina State University 3.0 University of Florida 3.0 Virginia Tech 3.0 51. Arizona State University 2.9 Michigan State University 2.9 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) 2.9 Texas A&M University College Station 2.9 University of Pittsburgh 2.9 56. Boston University 2.8 University of California Santa Cruz 2.8 58. University at Buffalo SUNY 2.7 University of Illinois Chicago 2.7 60. Colorado State University 2.6 George Mason University (VA) 2.6 Iowa State University 2.6 Oregon State University 2.6 University of California Riverside 2.6 University of Notre Dame (IN) 2.6 University of Oregon 2.6 67. Case Western Reserve University (OH) 2.5 Syracuse University (NY) 2.5 University of Iowa 2.5 University of New Mexico 2.5 Vanderbilt University (TN) 2.5 BY SPECIALTIES Computer Science Specialties: Programming Language 1. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of California–Berkeley 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5. Cornell University (NY) 6. University of Washington 7. Princeton University (NJ) 8. Rice University (TX) 9. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 10. University of Wisconsin–Madison 11. University of Pennsylvania 12. Harvard University (MA) 13.Yale University (CT) 14. University of Texas–Austin 15. University of Maryland–College Park 16. Indiana University–Bloomington 17. University of California–Los Angeles 18. University of California–San Diego 19. Columbia University (NY) Computer Science Specialties: Systems 1. University of California–Berkeley 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 4. Stanford University (CA) 5. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 6. University of Washington 7. University of Wisconsin–Madison 8. University of Texas–Austin 9. University of California–San Diego 10. Princeton University (NJ) 11. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 12. Cornell University (NY) 13. Georgia Institute of Technology 14.University of California–Los Angeles 15. Rice University (TX) 16. Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) 17.University of Maryland–College Park 18. University of Massachusetts–Amherst 19. California Institute of Technology 20. Columbia University (NY) 21.University of Southern California 22. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 23. Harvard University (MA) 24. University of Pennsylvania Computer Science Specialties: Theory 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Stanford University (CA) 3. University of California–Berkeley 4. Cornell University (NY) 5. Princeton University (NJ) 6. Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 7. Harvard University (MA) 8. Columbia University (NY) 9. Georgia Institute of Technology 10. University of Washington 11. University of Texas–Austin 12. University of Chicago 13. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 14. University of California–San Diego 15. Yale University (CT) 16. Brown University (RI) 17. University of Wisconsin–Madison 18. California Institute of Technology 19. Duke University (NC) University of Pennsylvania 21. Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) 22. University of Maryland–College Park 23. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
sdf123 Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Can anyone post the US News and World Report Rankings for 2008 in Computer Science (Systems)?
misterlang Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Can anyone post the US News and World Report Rankings for 2008 in Computer Science (Systems)? Unfortunately they didn't update any of the computer science rankings. This would have been great to know before I purchased it again!
moneke Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Can anyone post the US News and World Report Rankings for 2008 in Computer Science (Systems)? The 2006 rankings should still give you good information for the general ballpark that school is in. I can't imagine that they would have changed much in two years. Besides the categories are so broad and the methods used for ranking so questionable that you should also spend time reading up on what individual profs are doing at different schools and see if their research interests you. I decided to go to a school that's lower ranked than some that I got accepted to because the department is a really good fit for my particular interests.
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