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What are the best universities to study Computer Science and Software Engineering?

In your opinion, what are the best universities to study CS and SE? (Apart from Oxford and Cambridge) Why do you think so? How is that university different than others. Also what should a person do/look for when he is researching about what universities to apply to?
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Original post by Hanuk Tan
In your opinion, what are the best universities to study CS and SE? (Apart from Oxford and Cambridge) Why do you think so? How is that university different than others. Also what should a person do/look for when he is researching about what universities to apply to?


Probably Imperial. Edinburgh is up there as well for CS.

An important thing to look for when researching CS degrees is the course content. Some universities will focus on teaching as many languages as possible which in my opinion is not the way to go. Also, try and go for a course that has more mathematical content.
Edinburgh (theoretical focus)
Imperial (theoretical focus)
Warwick (theoretical focus)
UCL (engineering focus)
Southamptom (engineering focus)
Original post by Hanuk Tan
In your opinion, what are the best universities to study CS and SE? (Apart from Oxford and Cambridge) Why do you think so? How is that university different than others. Also what should a person do/look for when he is researching about what universities to apply to?


IMO for tiers it goes (no particular order):

Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Edinburgh, St Andrews and UCL

Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Warwick, Manchester, Sheffield, Bath, Birmingham, Glasgow, York, Nottingham, KCL, Leeds, Southampton

RHUL, Loughborough, Surrey, Dundee, Strathclyde, Heriot Watt, Liverpool, QUB, UEA, QMUL, Cardiff, Leicester, Lancaster, Newcastle, Kent, Swansea and Cardiff

Everything else

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Original post by username3012438
Edinburgh (theoretical focus)
Imperial (theoretical focus)
Warwick (theoretical focus)
UCL (engineering focus)
Southamptom (engineering focus)


What are the differences between theoretically focused courser and engineering ones?
Original post by Hanuk Tan
What are the differences between theoretically focused courser and engineering ones?


Theoretical = more theoretical computer science topics and more pure maths-y content. Engineering = more building stuff, i.e. projects. But I disagree with UCL, their course is very theoretical.

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