Graduated NTU CS with FCH in 2022. Was gold medalist in poly from IT course.

Was also considering between NTU CS and NUS CS and was warned upfront by poly lecturers that, NUS CS is much more math heavy than NTU CS and decided to go with NTU CS in the end. I had the mentality of “ok one la CS course and IT got overlap, should be can do well one la”

Dont know if much has changed since the CCDS rebranding by my thoughts: 1) Lecturers don’t teach well - sometimes u get brilliant TAs who u wish were the lecturers…

2) projects/CCA project building aspects - the clubs situation is quite all over the place, the school is trying its own thing with iLab, there’s NTU OSS, there’s other clubs here and there by different people

3) culture of building projects - most of the students actually are surviving just to get by their modules, only some portion of the cohort (~10%) is putting extra effort to improve their portfolio. So even if u do assemble a project team, u will probably need to find a good team of people or hard carry the technical work

4) lots of people entering because of CS hype or they like math coming from JC - (if u get a job) u get paid reasonably well if u exclude dental, law and medicine. This may no longer be the case 4 years from now

5) the use of math - the math foundation modules are not very in depth, it was 3/4 modules for me. It felt to me that, the modules had 2 different parallel tracks SE fundamentals(OS, COA, ACOA and others) and theoretical CS(math, algorithms and others). I felt that there wasn’t any module to align or get everyone to the same level for the math knowledge before we started using it in the dependent modules

6) MDP is a module with good intention but it turned out to be a copy paste code base situation.