What do you think of the CS master's program at Rutgers in general?
Without boring everyone with too many details at the moment, some background: I was a humanities undergrad and graduated last year. I'm 24. I've been working in my field, international relations, and do not want to pursue it (or most things humanities-based) as a career. I really want to switch to CS, and am interested in pursuing theoretical CS, though this will entail a huge amount of work and catching up on my part. I realize that whatever program I apply to I'm going to have to bust my ass ahead of time to catch up on math and CS prereqs and take extra time to finish the degree, but I really want this.
Rutgers is my state school and would make a lot of sense for me if I could catch up on prereqs in the next year and be admitted in 2010.
Any thoughts on the program would be much appreciated. And any thoughts on my plans (to "move upstream" to CS from humanities) would also be very much appreciated.
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What do you think of the CS master's program at Rutgers in general?
Without boring everyone with too many details at the moment, some background: I was a humanities undergrad and graduated last year. I'm 24. I've been working in my field, international relations, and do not want to pursue it (or most things humanities-based) as a career. I really want to switch to CS, and am interested in pursuing theoretical CS, though this will entail a huge amount of work and catching up on my part. I realize that whatever program I apply to I'm going to have to bust my ass ahead of time to catch up on math and CS prereqs and take extra time to finish the degree, but I really want this.
Rutgers is my state school and would make a lot of sense for me if I could catch up on prereqs in the next year and be admitted in 2010.
Any thoughts on the program would be much appreciated. And any thoughts on my plans (to "move upstream" to CS from humanities) would also be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!