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 |
92.8 | 95.5 | 90.0 | 92.0 |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.9 | 91.5 | 87.7 | 96.6 |
| #3 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
91.0 | 100.0 | 79.1 | 90.8 |
| #4 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
89.1 | 90.2 | 81.5 | 95.3 |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
88.6 | 85.5 | 93.7 | 87.5 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.3 | 85.2 | 92.5 | 88.1 |
| #7 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
86.1 | 83.3 | 91.5 | 84.3 |
| #8 | 85.5 | 82.1 | 86.4 | 89.2 | |
| #9 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
84.9 | 80.0 | 94.7 | 81.5 |
| #10 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.7 | 78.0 | 81.4 | 93.5 |
| #11 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
82.6 | 83.8 | 100.0 | 63.5 |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
82.4 | 80.5 | 78.0 | 89.2 |
| #13 | 81.4 | 74.7 | 84.9 | 86.9 | |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
81.2 | 76.7 | 74.9 | 93.6 |
| #15 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
80.5 | 80.2 | 73.0 | 88.5 |
| #16 |
Columbia University
United States |
80.1 | 70.0 | 81.4 | 92.4 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
79.7 | 73.9 | 79.5 | 87.5 |
| #18 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
79.5 | 75.6 | 80.6 | 83.5 |
| #18 |
University of Washington
United States |
79.5 | 75.6 | 68.8 | 95.4 |
| #20 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
79.4 | 78.0 | 69.2 | 91.3 |
| #21 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
78.7 | 70.1 | 87.2 | 81.7 |
| #21 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
78.7 | 70.4 | 86.7 | 81.8 |
| #23 |
University of Chicago
United States |
78.6 | 67.3 | 80.0 | 92.4 |
| #23 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
78.6 | 77.3 | 72.4 | 86.4 |
| #25 |
Yale University
United States |
78.4 | 69.7 | 81.4 | 86.9 |
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