Northface for Computer Science?
| August 6, 2004 @ 7:19 am | Filed under Education |
I read an article today on CNN’s website called “Computer science school breaks with tradition“. The school is called Northface and is located in South Jordan, Utah which is just south of Salt Lake City. The school offers a computer science degree in 28 months and for $60,000. How do they do it? Well, all their courses are focussed on computer science. They have only one liberal arts course and instead of taking up time with general education courses they focus solely on the technical classes.
Northface is backed by IMB Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and Unisys Corp. The goal of the school is to teach students what they need to know and that’s it. Many critics of the school say that the students won’t have the skills to be well rounded thinkers without the extra ciriculum offered at universities. MIT is one of those that says it is important for students to receive a well rounded education to succeed in the world of computers.
I am interested to see how well Northface students do compared to MIT or other well known universities in computer science. From the sound of it, Northface feels they will be competition for such schools.