Talk:Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

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The stuff at the bottom about "do or die" is largely false. In fact, the PhD program would often grant masters degrees to PhD students who had reached ABD status, sometimes in the interests of allowing them to get higher salaries at summer jobs. I recieved such a masters degree about half way through my study there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.173.250.82 (talk • contribs).

• Was that during the 80s? It's certainly the case now that they give masters degrees for finishing most of the PhD requirements, but I had heard that this practice is somewhat new. — brighterorange (talk) 16:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

"It ranks as one of the best Computer Science programs in the world." seems POV to me. If such a claim is to be made, then there should be citations to actual rankings. Other similar claims seem to be made without citation as well. --Shimei 03:24, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Added link to U.S. News and World Report --Jrc 23:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Let me guess, you must be from MIT? Well, four programs are tied for #1 for CS.

Either way it looks like "one of the top coputer science programs" is fair so, I've removed the NPOV tag Nloth 06:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

There's other stuff that's flowery and should be fixed/made more declarative --Matt 03:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Please point these out - it looks pretty much okay to me. Nloth 06:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)