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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Computer Science (New! Ranked in 2002*) Also see rankings in Computer Engineering.
Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 4.9
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.9
| Stanford University (CA) | 4.9
| University of California–Berkeley | 4.9
5. | University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.6
6. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.5
7. | University of Texas–Austin | 4.4
| University of Washington | 4.4
9. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.3
10. | California Institute of Technology | 4.1
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.1
12. | Georgia Institute of Technology | 4.0
| University of Maryland–College Park | 4.0
14. | Brown University (RI) | 3.9
| University of California–Los Angeles | 3.9
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 3.9
17. | Rice University (TX) | 3.8
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.8
| University of Pennsylvania | 3.8
20. | Columbia University (NY) | 3.7
| Duke University (NC) | 3.7
| Harvard University (MA) | 3.7
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.7
| University of California–San Diego | 3.7
25. | University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.6
| Yale University (CT) | 3.6
27. | University of Southern California | 3.5
| University of Virginia | 3.5
29. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.3
| New York University | 3.3
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.3
| SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.3
| University of California–Irvine | 3.3
| University of Utah | 3.3
35. | Ohio State University | 3.2
| Penn State University–University Park | 3.2
| University of Arizona | 3.2
| University of Chicago | 3.2
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.2
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.2
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.2
42. | Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.1
| Northwestern University (IL) | 3.1
| University of California–Davis | 3.1
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.1
| Virginia Tech | 3.1
47. | Dartmouth College (NH) | 3.0
| University of Florida | 3.0
49. | Michigan State University | 2.9
| North Carolina State University | 2.9
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.9
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 2.9
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 2.9
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.9
55. | Arizona State University | 2.7
| SUNY–Buffalo | 2.7
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.7
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 2.7
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.7
60. | Boston University | 2.6
| Iowa State University | 2.6
| OGI School of Science & Engineering–Oregon Health & Science U. | 2.6
| University of Delaware | 2.6
| University of Iowa | 2.6
| University of Oregon | 2.6
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.6
67. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.5
| Northeastern University (MA) | 2.5
| Oregon State University | 2.5
| University of Tennessee–Knoxville | 2.5
*This ranking was computed in January of the year cited, based on data from a survey sent out in the fall of the previous year.
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