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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #11 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
82.6 | 83.8 | 100.0 | 63.5 |
| #48 | 73.4 | 72.9 | 76.0 | 71.5 | |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.9 | 91.5 | 87.7 | 96.6 |
| #41 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
74.8 | 72.5 | 81.4 | 71.1 |
| #44 |
Purdue University
United States |
74.2 | 69.6 | 71.6 | 83.0 |
| #10 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.7 | 78.0 | 81.4 | 93.5 |
| #35 |
Peking University
China |
75.8 | 72.7 | 87.2 | 68.6 |
| #38 |
New York University (NYU)
United States |
75.4 | 64.9 | 77.6 | 87.2 |
| #9 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
84.9 | 80.0 | 94.7 | 81.5 |
| #26 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
77.9 | 69.9 | 87.5 | 78.9 |
| #47 |
McGill University
Canada |
73.5 | 71.2 | 79.2 | 70.9 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
92.8 | 95.5 | 90.0 | 92.0 |
| #18 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
79.5 | 75.6 | 80.6 | 83.5 |
| #13 | 81.4 | 74.7 | 84.9 | 86.9 | |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
88.6 | 85.5 | 93.7 | 87.5 |
| #29 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
77.2 | 76.2 | 73.7 | 82.0 |
| #8 | 85.5 | 82.1 | 86.4 | 89.2 | |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
79.7 | 73.9 | 79.5 | 87.5 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
81.2 | 76.7 | 74.9 | 93.6 |
| #16 |
Columbia University
United States |
80.1 | 70.0 | 81.4 | 92.4 |
| #41 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong |
74.8 | 66.1 | 80.8 | 80.5 |
| #3 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
91.0 | 100.0 | 79.1 | 90.8 |
| #27 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
77.4 | 74.6 | 67.9 | 90.5 |
| #46 |
Brown University
United States |
73.7 | 63.8 | 72.6 | 88.1 |
| #31 |
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia |
76.8 | 70.4 | 86.8 | 75.2 |
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