Best Computer Science degree?

[Merlin]

But as a hiring manager merlin would you accept someone with that degree for a CS postion?

Personally, as a hiring manager, a degree doesn't matter to me as much as their other career accomplishments. I know a lot of other hiring managers who look at it the same way. We hire people without degrees into IT and CS roles all the time because they have amazing resumes or have a portfolio of shipped products that proves they can get the job done.

On the other hand, if I were hiring for a position that required a "CS degree or equivalent" and everything else was equal, I wouldn't have a problem with hiring a candidate who finished the COSC program because I am aware of it. However, most hiring managers haven't heard of COSC and will be looking at dozens if not hundreds of resumes, so they will probably not take the time to investigate an obscure college degree program. So it depends on how they interpret the CS concentration I suppose. They might liken the CS concentration to someone with a BS in Software Development degree rather than a full BS CS. Then again, many hiring managers don't really distinguish between BSCS and BSSD when hiring anyway since they're looking for programmers and not computer scientists.

That said, like I mentioned earlier, if a candidate were to put down BS in CS when they have a BS in GS with CS concentration, I am pretty sure most hiring managers (or HR managers) would automatically pass because of the implied dishonesty. The candidate wouldn't get the chance to explain why it is the same thing.

As for people not hiring CS majors with a BA vs a BS... that doesn't really happen. At least I've never seen this happen in my experience. People don't care about the A or S. They care more about what school issued the degree (there is a lot of academic nepotism in this area.. meaning they prefer people from their own school or from a top-tier school), that the degree is verifiable (issued to the applicant), and that it is in the required discipline.

To be honest, if you're coming from a no-name school like COSC or TESU and the academic background becomes a comparison point against someone coming from a school like Stanford, UCB, or Harvard, you'll probably be passed over either way. That's just the law of the land. Of course, if you have an amazing resume and/or portfolio and come from a no-name school, you may be hired over the ivy/ivy+ candidates if they don't have the same background.

That all said, I do agree that someone with the COSC degree would be a stronger candidate for a graduate-level CS program than the other options given the more rigorous requirements to complete the degree.