[arcanus]

This is pretty common at all the top Engineering departments, nowadays.

My doctorate was at Texas, and it certainly catered primarily to what brings in the $$: e.g. research.

[nvarsj]

Yep, welcome to every research based university in the world. Even B.S. degrees take a back seat. I think OMSCS is good because they seem to at least be trying to improve the non-research track experience.