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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #41 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong |
74.8 | 66.1 | 80.8 | 80.5 |
| #16 |
Columbia University
United States |
80.1 | 70.0 | 81.4 | 92.4 |
| #10 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.7 | 78.0 | 81.4 | 93.5 |
| #41 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
74.8 | 72.5 | 81.4 | 71.1 |
| #39 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
75.0 | 67.6 | 81.4 | 78.6 |
| #25 |
Yale University
United States |
78.4 | 69.7 | 81.4 | 86.9 |
| #4 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
89.1 | 90.2 | 81.5 | 95.3 |
| #40 |
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Australia |
74.9 | 70.4 | 81.9 | 73.8 |
| #48 |
University of Sydney
Australia |
73.4 | 66.5 | 82.5 | 73.5 |
| #35 |
Tsinghua University
China |
75.8 | 75.7 | 84.4 | 67.3 |
| #13 | 81.4 | 74.7 | 84.9 | 86.9 | |
| #8 | 85.5 | 82.1 | 86.4 | 89.2 | |
| #21 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
78.7 | 70.4 | 86.7 | 81.8 |
| #31 |
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia |
76.8 | 70.4 | 86.8 | 75.2 |
| #35 |
Peking University
China |
75.8 | 72.7 | 87.2 | 68.6 |
| #21 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
78.7 | 70.1 | 87.2 | 81.7 |
| #26 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
77.9 | 69.9 | 87.5 | 78.9 |
| #48 | 73.4 | 73.6 | 87.6 | 59.0 | |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.9 | 91.5 | 87.7 | 96.6 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
92.8 | 95.5 | 90.0 | 92.0 |
| #7 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
86.1 | 83.3 | 91.5 | 84.3 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.3 | 85.2 | 92.5 | 88.1 |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
88.6 | 85.5 | 93.7 | 87.5 |
| #9 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
84.9 | 80.0 | 94.7 | 81.5 |
| #11 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
82.6 | 83.8 | 100.0 | 63.5 |
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