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Since NYU seems to be in the lead (3 points) as I'm typing this, I'll throw something in here.

The introductory cs couse, ie the one I'm in right now, is not very good. I assume it gets a lot better, but the ones teaching those courses are not exactly on the cutting edge of what cs is at the moment. Case in point, my professor likes to speak great volumes of how important UML is and how programmers can spend months just designing the UML before they get to any coding.

That said, research here is pretty good. Jeff Han, one of the main multi-touch developers, worked at NYU. He gave a TED presentation as well: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jeff_han_demos_his_breakth...

Also, it's New York City, so you have a good chance of meeting all kinds of people, not just students and professors. Google's office is only about a 20 minute walk from campus.

Also, it's expensive, very expensive.



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