UIUC is an amazing school for computer science and I just wanted to know of which universities have computer programs on the same level. In addition, would you place the following universities above or below UIUC: Boston U, CMU, Cornell, Purdue, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, UC Irvine?
Top ten schools usually include Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Cal Tech, UCSB, MIT, Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, Cornell, in no particular order, and depending on who is ranking them and whether you mean CS or CompE. I would think from your list, Purdue, UCLA and UCSD are in the same league as UIUC as well, along with GT, Michigan, Washington and a few more. Not sure about the others.
CMU > UIUC >= Cornell > Purdue >= UCLA
Top 10 schools in CS/CE usually are (on different ranking systems) - MIT, Stanford, CMU, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UIUC, UT Austin, UW, U Mich. Also UCLA, Purdue, UCSD, UC Davis, UC Irvine are next.
in my view in the list above - I would say
CMU > Cornell > UIUC > UCLA >UCSD > Purdue > then rest (UC Irvine, UC Davis, Boston U)
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