Hello! WSU alum here. While I did not major in Comp Sci, lots of my friends did. They all have jobs in their field but they have pretty “average” jobs. No crazy FAANG positions but they are all happily employed. WSU computer science is textbook “decent.” You will learn good stuff and have a marketable degree after graduating, but it’s not a super duper impressive degree. University of Washington in comparison is much better but also much more competitive.

The only downside to WSU as a whole is that it is in a small town and might feel pretty remote to you if you are not used to that or expecting it. I loved living in Pullman but I know a lot of people who thought the town was too isolated. In my opinion WSU is a great school and Pullman is a great town. Highly recommend it but my opinion may be a little bias. Go Cougs!

Long story short I had a really rough year last year and just recently decided to go to college in the Fall this year and sadly Unibersity of Washington application deadline already passed 😭. But thanks for the WSU imput helps a lot.

WSU has a reputation of being a party school. And it, like it's counterpart UW, do have party elements.

But it's a great school with a lot of reach. I've heard nothing but good things from people who went there. Back in my day some of the more elite esque high school smarties would kind of look down on it.

You'll find plenty of WSU grads at all of the big names. Perhaps not as many as UW, but not insignificant.

Is that for all campuses? If UW Bothell deadline hasn't passed, that is a great School. It also shares a campus with Cascadia College - which mostly has two year degrees and some 4 year. But a lot of people go from Cascadia to UWB

UW Bothel isn't closed yet, what's different about UW and UW Bothell

Both have full access to all UW libraries. Bothell just a 2nd campus. About 30 minutes north of Seattle. Classes are smaller and the surrounding area is not a big city. But it offers many 4 year degrees, including computer science.

Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) went to wsu

UW grad here. I had friends who went to UW with me (about 10 years ago) specifically for computer science, and then literally couldn't get into the program because it was so competitive.

So. Just because you go to the state's "good" computer science school doesn't mean you'll get into the program.

Go to WSU. See if you like the program. If not, try to transfer. Either way, make sure you take advantage of any internships, etc. In my experience, they're the best pathway to a career after college, regardless of the field.

Exactly this happened to me. UW is great, but if you don't have a 4.0 in all your math classes up through calculus, forget about comp science there. My roommate got a degree in electrical engineering and landed a job at T-mobile though, so there's always options. Go Dawgs!

But we all know MSFT stole windows from Apple...