I'm in my last week before I have to submit my intent to register for college and I'm really sort of conflicted between these two schools. I don't really have much experience with the tech industry itself and all I've been told about like, the CS departments at both of those schools seems to contradict whatever else I've been told.

If anyone has any experience with either of the two and any opinion on which has a better career and opportunity outlook for what I have in mind, I'd like to hear about it.

If it means anything, I'm trying to figure out what the best school would be for trying to find CS jobs in finance (Big 4 and investment banks), defense (Boeing/Lockheed), or the more well-known parts of the tech industry (Google/Microsoft/Etc). I'm also trying to look more into the mathematics-focused algorithmic/data structures side of CS. If knowing the costs matters, Mudd would be 15k/year and UCLA would be 20k/year at initial estimate.

I've just been antsy recently because I haven't heard much about Mudd's CS education value outside of the internet (there's next to 0 presence in the tech scene in my part of California) and I've heard a lot about UCLA's CS curriculum being more theory-oriented and unhelpful for actually trying to do well in the workplace.

So yeah, any sort of additional perspective from anyone else involved in CS would be nice.