More objective ranking of Comp Sci Schools?

[RichInPitt]

@OliveLewis

Whether on this site or others, when you plug in “college computer science rankings,” the results only seem to go as far as the top 10 or 15 schools

That’s somewhat surprising, as I posted a composite ranking from 7 different sources, posting down to the top 50 ( of 150+ total). It included both CSRanking and QS mentioned above, as well as four other sources. Only one of which had fewer than 30 schools ranked.

(As usual, you’ll find the “if it’s not perfect it’s useless, and it’s only perfect if it’s exactly what I want” responses. They are data points to be used appropriately. )

Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

As I mentioned in the post regarding averaged overall school rankings, I’ve been tracking similar data as my D seeks out Computer Science schools. Below(hopefully) is a composite ranking from seven different CS ranking sources, listed at the top. Schools are generally ranked by the number of rankings on which they appear, then their average. For a few outliers (really, Niche, Princeton isn’t a top 100 CS school?), I used some judgement to place them. I looked at top 6 of 7, top 5 of 7, toss high and low, etc. These are judgement calls. I cut it off where schools stopped regularly appearing on at least 4 of the surveys. Even past the top 30 or so, the numbers get a bit sketchy. Hopefully useful or saving someone some research time. (EDIT: looks like CC shrinks it - you can click on the image, then click again to see it at a reasonable size. Downloading will provide the full-rez version) [CS top]