EMBARGOED TILL MAY 14: San Jose State University beats Stanford, Cal in computer coding

San Jose State University has shot past Stanford and UC Berkeley to a top- spot in a ranking of U S universities based on a standardized computer coding test The school leapt to the No spot this year in rankings by CodeSignal a San Francisco company whose General Coding Assessment is widely used by major mechanism companies to evaluate probable hires That position put San Jose State in front of Berkeley at No and Stanford at No a giant leap from last year when the school was ranked nd and from when it ranked th This is great news stated San Jose State engineering school dean Sheryl Ehrman who attributed the effect to eager students talented tenure-track faculty and part-time instructors with tech industry experience who are really trying to impart those real-world skills Whether the university could continue its trajectory to the top of the rankings would require a dramatic upset This year and last year Carnegie Mellon took No and Massachusetts Institute of Machinery came in No while in MIT came out on top followed by New York s Stony Brook University with Carnegie Mellon at No The downtown San Jose school is an under-told story behind Silicon Valley s success revealed South Bay Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna It s constantly been such a key component of churning out engineers churning out people in apparatus Khanna commented this week A lot of headlines go to Stanford and Berkeley San Jose State and Santa Clara University are really significant contributors and San Jose of program being a population school is more accessible for folks that can t afford Stanford or Santa Clara CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan noted the general coding assessment is taken by the vast majority of U S computer science students and is intended to provide a data-driven view of people s coding ability Students generally take it annually starting in their junior year and can share their results with prospective employers he commented The -minute test includes four questions to measure different coding skills Launched six years ago CodeSignal s assessment has become very popular among tech and financial companies Sloyan explained The test Sloyan contended gives prospective employers a much better idea of a tool engineering or program progress candidate s qualifications than a resume which may attract an employer s attention for the presence of a particularly prestigious school without any guarantee the scholar or graduate developed the commensurate skills Every school has brilliant average and mediocre students Sloyan announced Greater part companies want to go beyond resumes and find great people regardless of which schools they came from Sloyan announced Related Articles Opinion Investing in California s future means rejecting state cuts to CSU CSU students start indefinite hunger strike in patronage of Palestinians Bay Area universities in chaos amid research funding cuts Taves Trump s higher learning attacks endanger Silicon Valley s secret sauce DOGE cuts hit SJSU UC Berkeley UCSF Researcher says I don t know that they understood what I was doing Sloyan believes San Jose State s rapid climb toward the top of the university pack in CodeSignal s rankings reflects the effectiveness of the school s faculty and programs Clearly San Jose State is doing something right when it comes to tech coaching Sloyan explained So far the observation is that what they might be doing different from other schools is having a more hands-on approach to coaching UC Berkeley declined to comment on the rankings Stanford Harshil Vayas soon to graduate from San Jose State with a master s in utility engineering pointed to the school s tech-veteran instructors as a key benefit along with large numbers of fellow students like him who have worked in tech and share their varied experiences with each other The school s location in Silicon Valley is another boon commented Vayas It s somewhat a motivation when you see the tech industry around you Vayas declared It helps you push to the goal