<p>It seems like most well know rankings (eg USNEWS) rank Computer Engineering, but not computer science. My son is leaning toward CS. We have found that you cannot assume that a college that is ranked high in CE is also a good CS school. We visited one ranked in the top ten in CE and were very impressed with CE put their CS department seemed average at best. I've searched this forum and have found some rankings for CS, but the most recent post seemed to be from 2/2010 and they seem sketchy at best. Any one have some reputable strictly CS rankings that are recent?</p>
<p>2/2010 wouldn’t be old at all for rankings, it isn’t like there’s meaningful year on year change with such things. Sketchy is another story, aren’t they all sketchy though? I think you might be best off looking at schools one by one, trying to find as best as you can how the department is run and what the reputation is. PhD rankings seem to correlate pretty well.</p>
<p>BP thanks for replying. It’s tough financially to get to more than 4 or 5 schools and ge a feeling of how they are run. All of their web sites look pretty good but that can be deceiving (like the one we went to see). </p>
<p>By sketchy – I mean – I found rankings by recruiters from companies – but they seemed skewed toward larger colleges (as that is where they would get th MOST graduates not necessairily the best). Is this legitamately telling me that a larger school witha good reputation may be better than a smaller school with a better reputation? </p>
<p>Also,I found other rankings by QS, ARWU and College Crunch. I’ve never heard of these organizations (college crunch?!?!?). Is one more reliable than another? Georgia Tech wasn’t even listed in the College Crunch top 20, where they were on every other list I found. Why would that be?</p>
<p>Where do I find Phd rankings?</p>
<p>USNWR Computer Science graduate rankings (Ranked in 2010):</p>
<p>1 Carnegie Mellon University
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 Stanford University
1 University of California–Berkeley
5 Cornell University
5 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
7 University of Washington
8 Princeton University
8 University of Texas–Austin
10 Georgia Institute of Technology
11 California Institute of Technology
11 University of Wisconsin–Madison
13 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
14 University of California–Los Angeles
14 University of California–San Diego
14 University of Maryland–College Park
17 Columbia University
17 Harvard University
17 University of Pennsylvania
20 Brown University
20 Purdue University–West Lafayette
20 Rice University
20 University of Massachusetts–Amherst
20 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
20 University of Southern California
20 Yale University</p>
<p>Thanks for the graduate school rankings GoBlue. I am sure there is a relationship between graduate school rankings and undergrad programs, so this list helps. However, I’m still ideally looking for recent undergraduate rankings for Computer Science (again, NOT Computer Engineering).</p>
<p>1 Carnegie Mellon University
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 Stanford University
1 University of California–Berkeley
5 Cornell University
5 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
7 University of Washington
8 Princeton University
8 University of Texas–Austin
10 Georgia Institute of Technology
11 California Institute of Technology
11 University of Wisconsin–Madison
13 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
14 University of California–Los Angeles
14 University of California–San Diego
14 University of Maryland–College Park
17 Columbia University
17 Harvard University
17 University of Pennsylvania
20 Brown University
20 Purdue University–West Lafayette
20 Rice University
20 University of Massachusetts–Amherst
20 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
20 University of Southern California
20 Yale University
27 Duke University
28 Johns Hopkins University
28 New York University
28 Ohio State University
28 Pennsylvania State University–University Park
28 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick
28 University of California–Irvine
28 University of Virginia
35 Northwestern University
35 University of California–Santa Barbara
35 University of Chicago
35 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
39 University of California–Davis
39 University of Colorado–Boulder
39 University of Florida
39 University of Utah
39 Washington University in St. Louis
44 Dartmouth College
44 Stony Brook University–SUNY
44 Virginia Tech
47 Boston University
47 North Carolina State University
47 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
47 Texas A&M University–College Station
47 University of Arizona
47 University of Rochester
53 Arizona State University
53 Indiana University–Bloomington
53 University of California–Riverside
53 University of California–Santa Cruz
53 University of Pittsburgh
58 Michigan State University
58 University of Illinois–Chicago
58 Vanderbilt University
61 Northeastern University
61 University at Buffalo–SUNY
63 Case Western Reserve University
63 George Mason University
63 Iowa State University
63 Oregon State University
63 Syracuse University
63 University of Iowa
63 University of Notre Dame
63 University of Oregon
63 University of Tennessee–Knoxville
72 Brandeis University
72 Naval Postgraduate School
72 Polytechnic Institute of New York University
72 Tufts University
72 University of Connecticut
72 University of Delaware
72 University of Maryland–Baltimore County
79 Clemson University
79 College of William and Mary
79 Colorado State University
79 CUNY Graduate School and University Center
79 Florida State University
79 George Washington University
79 Oregon Health and Science University
79 University of Kansas
79 University of Nebraska–Lincoln
79 University of New Mexico
79 University of Texas–Dallas
79 Washington State University
91 Auburn University
91 Brigham Young University
91 New Jersey Institute of Technology
91 University at Albany–SUNY
91 University of Central Florida
91 University of Georgia
91 University of Kentucky
91 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
99 Drexel University
99 Georgia State University
99 Kansas State University
99 Lehigh University
99 Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge
99 Stevens Institute of Technology
99 University of Cincinnati
99 University of North Carolina–Charlotte
99 University of South Carolina
99 University of South Florida
99 University of Texas–Arlington
110 Binghamton University–SUNY
110 Colorado School of Mines
110 Illinois Institute of Technology
110 Southern Methodist University
110 Temple University
110 University of Houston
110 University of Missouri
110 University of Oklahoma
110 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
110 Wayne State University
110 West Virginia University
121 Claremont Graduate University
121 Mississippi State University
121 Missouri University of Science & Technology
121 New Mexico State University
121 Texas Tech University
121 Wright State University</p>
<p>[2012</a> Top US Computer Science Graduate Programs | Rankings of universities in USA | US News Best Colleges](<a href=“http://www.university-list.net/us/rank/univ-1025.htm]2012”>Top Educational Administration and Supervision Programs | US Graduate School Rankings | Best Education Schools in USA | Tuitions 2015 - Education Rankings)</p>
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<p>I understand your frustration, but I’m quite certain you won’t find such rankings. If they existed, CC would be all over them by now.</p>
<p>The graduate school rankings are a proxy for faculty strength in the given discipline, as rated by other faculty in the field. A lot of intangibles go into undergraduate program quality that no one has yet found ways to measure. US News essentially doesn’t even try. Instead, they try to sort colleges and universities by a variety of metrics across all disciplines, as if it make no difference whether school A is strong in STEM fields and weak in social sciences and humanities, while school B is stellar in humanities and social sciences but weak in STEM fields. The exceptions are that they rank undergrad business and engineering programs, but they do so by a reputational survey that involves essentially the same methodology as the graduate program surveys, i.e., reputational survey among faculty at competing schools, which is going to end up being a proxy for perceived faculty strength.</p>
<p>Data quality is weak. Buyer beware!</p>