World's Best Universities: Computer Science
Students who earn a degree in computer science typically start by learning algorithms and data structures, and then move on to more specialized areas of study, such as software engineering. These are the world's top universities for computer science. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
85.6 | 100.0 | 94.1 | 58.0 |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
83.1 | 91.4 | 81.7 | 73.5 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
75.5 | 77.8 | 100.0 | 47.9 |
| #4 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
75.4 | 85.7 | 72.4 | 64.6 |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
71.6 | 63.9 | 94.4 | 59.2 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
71.3 | 68.0 | 95.4 | 51.5 |
| #7 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
68.0 | 58.2 | 49.0 | 100.0 |
| #8 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
59.3 | 54.5 | 64.9 | 60.0 |
| #9 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
56.7 | 71.2 | 48.4 | 45.6 |
| #10 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
55.5 | 60.3 | 50.5 | 54.1 |
| #11 | 54.8 | 61.7 | 49.6 | 50.9 | |
| #12 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
54.7 | 64.1 | 56.7 | 40.3 |
| #13 |
Princeton University
United States |
54.6 | 54.0 | 42.5 | 67.6 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
53.3 | 52.8 | 43.5 | 63.9 |
| #15 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
52.9 | 56.9 | 57.1 | 43.5 |
| #16 |
Yale University
United States |
52.1 | 39.0 | 68.5 | 53.2 |
| #17 |
Columbia University
United States |
50.8 | 40.7 | 56.4 | 58.8 |
| #18 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
49.8 | 45.7 | 55.3 | 49.8 |
| #19 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
47.7 | 40.9 | 47.8 | 56.5 |
| #19 |
University of Chicago
United States |
47.7 | 35.4 | 46.4 | 65.5 |
| #19 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
47.7 | 46.2 | 65.1 | 32.3 |
| #19 |
University of Michigan
United States |
47.7 | 37.3 | 61.1 | 48.1 |
| #23 |
McGill University
Canada |
45.1 | 46.1 | 64.3 | 24.5 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
44.9 | 33.1 | 57.8 | 47.8 |
| #25 |
University of Washington
United States |
44.8 | 40.7 | 34.2 | 60.7 |
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