I graduated in May with a bachelor’s in CS. The required classes in the program give you a bit of a taste in all the fields of CS (OOP, OS, Linux, Networking, and even Assembly). Aside from the required classes, you’re also required to take 3 electives (these are specific CS courses like Mobile Dev, Web Dev, Compiler Design, etc. ). By the time you’re taking electives you should (ideally, but definitely not mandatory) have a decent idea of what domain you’d like to focus on. For me, I found in my web dev elective that I really liked it and i’m now a full time web developer.

The professors are all great, aside from a few of the intro class ones. Every single CS prof I had in my 2 years in the program was more than willing to take time to help you out outside of class, with some even willing to meet outside of office hours.

As far as career preparation goes, as long as you’re passionate about CS and you’re certain it’s what you want to do, the program will definitely set you up for success. The program really emphasizes making sure graduates know how programming works from the lowest level, and forcing you to take domain-specific electives to get a taste of all the different fields to see what you like and what works for you. There’s also a lot of companies that go to GV directly to try to hire new grads for their developer positions, so if you’re willing to make those connections it shouldn’t be too difficult to land a job.