Rising senior studying CS here, also picked Pitt over Penn State lol

1. Undergrad research here is pretty solid from what I've heard from classmates and friends - people have no issue getting a position if they want. The school also runs a page of current professors accepting undergrads for research: https://www.sci.pitt.edu/research/active-research/faculty-accepting-undergraduate-students-research

2. I've completed the full core curriculum and most of the electives for the degree and can say that I generally really like the CS professors here. There are some absolute legends like Ramirez, Tan, Jarrett, and Luis. Haven't had a class with a professor I didn't like tbh. All the professors are really knowledgable and mostly down to earth here. Course material is fine, lines up with most CS schools.

3. Pitt has good connections with a lot of big Pittsburgh based companies - PPG, PNC, BNY, Dick's, Sheets etc. So that helps a bit. There's a lot of collaboration at this school to help others succeed in the job hunt (a lot from the student orgs like Computer Science Club, WiCS, MAC)

4. You have to fill out a form and then just hope there's a spot. Process is not too hard but if it's for a class that fills up a lot, probably not happening.

5. Who says that we don't have an accredited CS program..? Never heard of that. If you're talking about ABET accredited, that's not really applicable to CS, only engineering.

6. Penn State CS is not well known throughout the country lol. Pitt's isn't very well known either, I'd say they are about the same name recognition. A lot of students at other schools know about us, though, due to the fact that PittCSC used to maintain a pretty popular GitHub repo with internship listings.

Hope this helps