Last year San Jose State had an acceptance rate into their computer science program of 11%, whereas for the school as a whole, it is 78%
SJSU overall racial make-up is 36% Asian, 28% black, 14% white, 10% foreign
Their computer science and software engineering programs are basically hard-working Asian kids who couldn’t get into places like Carnegie Mellon, MIT or Stanford.
“Coding”. How I hate that term. If all you are doing is “coding”, you aren’t writing software, and you aren’t engineering.
My university did not teach me coding - coding was just something I did to finish CS lab assignments. My first internship (with a company working on a real-time UNIX variant) taught me coding.
Here are the top 15 universities for 2025:
Carnegie Mellon University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stony Brook University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Pennsylvania
California Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
Duke University
San José State University
University of Southern California
Rice University
Yale University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Indiana University
From here, and more at this link:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/codesignal-report-ranks-universities-measurable-120000857.html?guccounter=1
So much of the coding work I do was learned *after* I graduated from college. And I learn something new every day, even though it’s been decades since I took a college class.
Today’s coders need to know how to learn on their own, outside of college.