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Re:CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum... by MengerSponge on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:01AM (#34815882)
It's worth noting that there are elite schools with uniformly excellent undergraduate instruction quality, but they are not doctoral granting institutions. Williams, Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd, etc.

They aren't "elite", but regional R2s also can be really well respected (CSU campuses come to mind), and I'm not sure where to file excellent schools with a narrower scope like Rose-Hulman either.

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Re:CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum... by csa on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:18AM (#34816285)
Very true.

I should have specified HYPS (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford). I think these are the schools that the “public mind” think of as elite. I would personally add a few more to the list, but I think that the “public mind” probably wouldn’t understand why I included them.

Williams and similar schools are colleges. I always tell people to go to colleges if they want great instruction. There are many amazing colleges in the US.

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