Re:Sure... just don't expect me to hire you.. (Score 1)

Northface highly emphasizes teamwork and collaboration. In the first two quarters, students take two collaboration courses. We also spend vast amounts of time working in teams (no projects are done as individuals). IBM loves Northface so much because the school does teach collaboration with such heavy emphasis. One of their beefs with the traditional universities is the lack of graduates' abilities to work in groups.

I struggled for four years at a Fortune 500 company after my first degree from a state university because my collaboration skills stunk (they never taught them). In 2 1/2 quarters at NU, I've learned why it was so hard for me to collaborate and now work with other CS majors regularly and harmoniously.

Part of NU's coursework also teachs self-teaching. A major part of being a developer (and keeping your job) is being able to adapt and learn. We aren't spoon fed at NU. Much of what we do at NU, we have to figure out with the resources available to us--the same resources we'll have in the real world. When we graduate, we'll have the skills to learn whatever language an employer wants us to and be able to model whatever real-world application a customer wants.

That's okay if you don't hire me. I've got my sites set on Big Blue (IBM), Fidelity, Wells Fargo, and a number of other Fortune 100 companies. They're just waiting for me to graduate from NU.