The Best Colleges for Network Engineering?

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?

Comments

Liberal Arts

[ubiquitin]

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.

College Degree in Networking?

[Simonetta]

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)