While some schools do suggest the students to buy CLRS, how many actually use it religiously as opposed to the instructors going back to their own lecture notes?
At UBC, we use CLRS for 2 undergrad courses: 3rd and 4th year Algorithm courses. I'm not sure what they use in grad level. Probably still covering CLRS.
That book is very thick and I have my own doubt a 3-month long semester can cover a lot from 1000 pages.
The 2nd and 3rd year undergrad CS algorithms courses at the UofA relied pretty heavily on CLRS, at least when I went through the program.
That was years ago, though, and I've heard anecdotally that now that there aren't 4x as many applicants to the program as there are spaces available, it's been made less rigorous.
At UBC, we use CLRS for 2 undergrad courses: 3rd and 4th year Algorithm courses. I'm not sure what they use in grad level. Probably still covering CLRS.
That book is very thick and I have my own doubt a 3-month long semester can cover a lot from 1000 pages.