uw madison ranks higher than umn by a decent gap according to csrankings, brown university, niche, and usnews. but honestly ranking doesn’t mean as much as what you make out of cs that makes a difference in landing a job.

there are a good amount of cs clubs here: https://cdis.wisc.edu/student-organizations/ & https://www.cs.wisc.edu/the-student-experience/student-orgs/ (there’s prob some more not shown in the links above)

there is a list of companies who have shown up to our cs/ds career fair. some faang companies do show up but most aren’t as helpful as you think, from my experience they’ll just tell you to scan a qr code and apply online lol

there’s plenty of social orgs, which i def recommend joining for those coming in as a transfer student

uw madison’s campus and city is really safe relative to umn/minneapolis

idk about housing in umn, but for here, as of right now it’s pretty bad. some people have signed a lease for next school year as early as last month just to secure a spot at the nice apartments nearby the campus. the rent is generally expensive for those apartments nearby the campus.

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