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^Pick a school with practical curriculum and breadth. Regardless of school, you will have to demonstrate sound programming skills (Java, C++, Perl) when you interview. Having a reputable school on your resume will decrease the chance of a hiring manager filtering your resume out to the reject pile. Companies usually have a list of schools from which they prefer to recruit.
I "accidentally" became a computer programmer for a couple years. My team was based in the US when I started but by the time I was laid off, half our team worked from India. It's true that demand for programmers is increasing but also consider your competition is increasingly global. Thank God for that layoff because I realized programming is not for me.
Nowadays I'm a mobile test/software QA engineer. Wireless companies tend to favor engineers with scripting/coding skills which I luckily have but haven't had to use... yet. When I interviewed for my current employer (with which I am getting laid off this week) and when I interviewed for my upcoming employer, coding skills was part of the reason I got job offers from both of them. Programmers comprise the bulk of R&D jobs in wireless but, again, more are becoming outsourced.
Are you set on studying this major? What schools did all your friends attend?
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