Yeah, it's a good CS department, despite being really small (only 4 professors). It also has a good placement rate into pretty prestigious companies too (Google, MITRE, hedge funds, I think we have a couple Microsofties as well).
The part I didn't like is that they really, really stay away from engineering stuff. Like, there's no course on RDBMses (even a theoretical one) because the subject is too "practical". It served me well for getting into Google, it did not serve me well in the startup world.
I am referring to Amherst College. I thought tsally was too, since I said I went to Amherst (College, not UMass) in the great-great-grandparent post, but perhaps he misinterpreted me and I misinterpreted his misinterpretation.
I am refering to Amherst College also. Amherst (and similar colleges like Swarthmore), place a surprising number of undergraduates into top 5 CS graduate programs. By surprising number, remember for these size departments that means anywhere between 1-3 per year. I hope I'm not speaking on incorrect information, but I feel like I looked up recent Alumni when I was considering Amherst.
Also, the UMass faculty list is misleading since apparently almost every CS professor in the 5-college system is listed as an "adjunct professor". Scott Kaplan and both McGeochs are actually Amherst professors, and Sami Rollins was my algorithms prof at Mt. Holyoke.
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Yeah, it's a good CS department, despite being really small (only 4 professors). It also has a good placement rate into pretty prestigious companies too (Google, MITRE, hedge funds, I think we have a couple Microsofties as well).
The part I didn't like is that they really, really stay away from engineering stuff. Like, there's no course on RDBMses (even a theoretical one) because the subject is too "practical". It served me well for getting into Google, it did not serve me well in the startup world.
I think you may be referring to Amherst College (https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/computer_sc...)
Umass Amherst has a rather substantial CS dept including many well known researchers (http://www.cs.umass.edu/faculty/faculty-directory)
I am referring to Amherst College. I thought tsally was too, since I said I went to Amherst (College, not UMass) in the great-great-grandparent post, but perhaps he misinterpreted me and I misinterpreted his misinterpretation.
I am refering to Amherst College also. Amherst (and similar colleges like Swarthmore), place a surprising number of undergraduates into top 5 CS graduate programs. By surprising number, remember for these size departments that means anywhere between 1-3 per year. I hope I'm not speaking on incorrect information, but I feel like I looked up recent Alumni when I was considering Amherst.
Also, the UMass faculty list is misleading since apparently almost every CS professor in the 5-college system is listed as an "adjunct professor". Scott Kaplan and both McGeochs are actually Amherst professors, and Sami Rollins was my algorithms prof at Mt. Holyoke.