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The Best Colleges for Network Engineering?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-higher-education dept.

viperstyx asks: "Ive come to that time in my life where I have to choose what colleges im going to apply to for my undergraduate degree. I'm very interested in Computer Science but I'm not sure if I want to major in Comp Sci, but I do have a high interest in networks. I hope to work on things like Internet2, or in a large business environment after college. I was hoping to find a college with a major, along the lines of Network Engineering, but I have yet to find one." What colleges have the best programs to prepare prospective networking engineers for the future?

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  1. Liberal Arts by ubiquitin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you think that your college efforts are for the sake of a better job and not for a better understanding of the world around you, then you're missing out. Really.

    Consider spending your time studying as an undergraduate on literature, history, philosophy, political science, mathematics, an investigation of human happiness (Aristotle called this ethics), biology, astronomy or a cogent combination of these and other topics.

    If it's job preparation you want, it's job preparation you'll get. That's all.

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    http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
  2. Re:Colorado Technical by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You know how many Network Engineers are out of work and hurting right now? You'd better believe 4 years from now there will be a lot more out of work network engineers. You are better of going to dental school man.

    Oh quit whining. Go to Monster.com and type in network engineer and it returns at least 5000 jobs. There are tons of opportunities.

  3. College Degree in Networking? by Simonetta · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If, in the future, computer networking is so difficult and full of gotchas and traps and weird little programming tricks that people will need a college degree to do it reliably, then today's engineers have failed miserably.

    The whole point of computer 'science' is to make operating, programming, and using computers productively be easy and transparent. It is not to create layers and layers of code, interfaces, and protocols that add massive plateaus of complexity to what is already a discipline wroght with artificial and useless complexity.

    This is a key point that no one in the Linux/Unix community seems to understand.

    (Oh boy, there go all my mod karma points again)

  4. you want to be an EE major... by xfrosch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    unless you want to spend the rest of your life wage-slaving as a router jockey.