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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #33 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
76.5 | 72.0 | 67.7 | 91.2 |
| #27 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
77.4 | 74.6 | 67.9 | 90.5 |
| #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 |
| #34 |
University of Waterloo
Canada |
75.9 | 74.9 | 69.9 | 83.2 |
| #44 |
Purdue University
United States |
74.2 | 69.6 | 71.6 | 83.0 |
| #23 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
78.6 | 77.3 | 72.4 | 86.4 |
| #46 |
Brown University
United States |
73.7 | 63.8 | 72.6 | 88.1 |
| #27 | 77.4 | 74.1 | 73.0 | 86.1 | |
| #15 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
80.5 | 80.2 | 73.0 | 88.5 |
| #29 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
77.2 | 76.2 | 73.7 | 82.0 |
| #37 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
75.7 | 67.4 | 73.8 | 88.5 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
81.2 | 76.7 | 74.9 | 93.6 |
| #43 |
University of Michigan
United States |
74.4 | 67.2 | 75.0 | 83.4 |
| #48 | 73.4 | 72.9 | 76.0 | 71.5 | |
| #30 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
76.9 | 77.9 | 76.1 | 76.2 |
| #45 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
74.1 | 68.9 | 76.2 | 79.0 |
| #32 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
76.6 | 70.0 | 76.3 | 85.6 |
| #38 |
New York University (NYU)
United States |
75.4 | 64.9 | 77.6 | 87.2 |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
82.4 | 80.5 | 78.0 | 89.2 |
| #3 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
91.0 | 100.0 | 79.1 | 90.8 |
| #47 |
McGill University
Canada |
73.5 | 71.2 | 79.2 | 70.9 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
79.7 | 73.9 | 79.5 | 87.5 |
| #23 |
University of Chicago
United States |
78.6 | 67.3 | 80.0 | 92.4 |
| #18 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
79.5 | 75.6 | 80.6 | 83.5 |
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