consider a school that's founded on the principles of education (ie Cal Poly) rather than research (ie, UC). Research universities are staffed by tenured professors who would rather work on their science fair projects than actually teach you. It was obvious where I went.
[MENTION=84801]AKmoney[/MENTION]
Where did you go to school?
And what was your major?
I ask because I went to a UC research school and would highly recommend it, especially for STEM majors.
UC schools often have the ability to enable students to work with cutting edge technology in a way that non research schools simply cannot.
A good example of this is computer science. My roommate was getting his masters degree in computer science at our school UC Santa Cruz. As a masters student he had access to the latest technology in data science, both hardware and software, including labs where the professors were conducting research. He co-authored a research paper that was published in a journal (I don't remember which one) and learned and worked with Apache Hadoop HDFS, eventually learning how to precisely code for Hadoop.
This was in 2009 & 2010 - a time when most people in the tech industry HAD NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HADOOP.
He graduated and left found work at Amazon in Seattle for starting at about ~ $120k.
Then 1 year later he left and went to work at a very well known start up in SF that focuses on a Hadoop data analytics and query product. He told me he doubled his salary.
I am not him but listening to this I was like holy sh$t - I need to go back for my masters!
The real point though is that he was studying, coding, designing and operating - hands on with Apache Hadoop in 2009 at a time when most of the people in Silicone Valley had never heard of Hadoop HDFS. He was able to do that because University of California Santa Cruz
(BTW the Banana Slug's university is still on the top 100 list every year for academics and top 10 for best campus) is a research school.
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