Want a Job in Silicon Valley After Yale? Good Luck With That
One of the world's top universities in most respects, Yale has fallen way behind in computer science
Students line up for commencement on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on May 20, 2013.
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Max Nova, a technology entrepreneur, graduated from Yale University, as did his father and grandfather. Yet Nova couldn't convince his sister or twin brothers to accept offers of admission to his alma mater because of the school's weak computer science department.
Nova's sister chose Harvard University and later found a job at Microsoft. His brothers are majoring in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We're totally getting left in the dust by our peer institutions,” Nova says. “We're getting swamped.”