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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #25 |
Yale University
United States |
78.4 | 69.7 | 81.4 | 86.9 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #20 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
79.4 | 78.0 | 69.2 | 91.3 |
| #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 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
79.7 | 73.9 | 79.5 | 87.5 |
| #16 |
Columbia University
United States |
80.1 | 70.0 | 81.4 | 92.4 |
| #15 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
80.5 | 80.2 | 73.0 | 88.5 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
81.2 | 76.7 | 74.9 | 93.6 |
| #13 | 81.4 | 74.7 | 84.9 | 86.9 | |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
82.4 | 80.5 | 78.0 | 89.2 |
| #11 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
82.6 | 83.8 | 100.0 | 63.5 |
| #10 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.7 | 78.0 | 81.4 | 93.5 |
| #9 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
84.9 | 80.0 | 94.7 | 81.5 |
| #8 | 85.5 | 82.1 | 86.4 | 89.2 | |
| #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 |
| #4 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
89.1 | 90.2 | 81.5 | 95.3 |
| #3 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
91.0 | 100.0 | 79.1 | 90.8 |
| #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 |
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