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?

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[swordgeek]

Hmm. You're starting college/university presumably this fall. Four years at school, a bit of time looking for an 'experience' job, and it'll be about 2010 by the time you're ready to start your career.

By then, I expect IT will be a wasteland of mostly automated systems. The only part of computing that won't be automated will be user admin, and nobody will be any more inclined to do that sort of work then than they are now.

I hate to say it (especially since it's my own field!), but computing in any aspect other than the core stuff--circuit design, hardware topology, and in a very small segment, OS coding--will be dead before I retire. Networking in some aspects is already there. Are you sure this is a field you want to be starting out in?