Which school is #1 in computer science?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>It is Stanford! Not Berkeley, Not MIT, Not CMU!</p>

<p>Why? Does everyone know TURING AWARD? It is the equivalent of NOBEL prize
in computer science. As I know, at least 18 Stanford professors, former professors, or Stanford graduates have won this award. When counting the Turing award connection, Stanford is #1, followed by Berkeley, MIT, CMU. MIT and CMU each has about 10.</p>

<p>In rankings by US national research council (an organization under US national academy of sciences), Stanford computer science department is #1, followed by MIT, CMU, Berkeley. </p>

<p>In USNEWS graduate school rankings over the years, Stanford has always been #1, either ahead of or tied with MIT/Berkeley/CMU.</p>

<p>The following are the 18 Turing prize winners with Stanford ties:</p>

<p>1)Knuth: long time Stanford faculty, winner of national medal of science, sometimes called "the father of computer science".</p>

<p>2)McCarthy: long time Stanford faculty, winner of national medal of science, called "the father of artificial intelligence".</p>

<p>3)Feigenbaum: long time Stanford faculty</p>

<p>4)Floyd: long time Stanford faculty (died)</p>

<p>5)Tarjan: former stanford faculty and Stanford ph.d graduate (now at Princeton)</p>

<p>6)Hopcroft: former stanford faculty and Stanford ph.d graduate (now at Cornell)</p>

<p>7)Reddy: former stanford faculty and Stanford ph.d graduate (now at CMU)</p>

<p>8)Rivest: Stanford ph.d graduate (now at MIT)</p>

<p>9) Cerf: former stanford faculty and Stanford graduate, widely called "the father of the internet".</p>

<p>10) Newell: Stanford graduate (former CMU professor)</p>

<p>11) Pnueli: Stanford postdoc</p>

<p>12) Wirth: former stanford faculty </p>

<p>13) Scott:former stanford faculty </p>

<p>14) Engelbardt: former staff at Stanford Research Institute, Inventor of the "mouse".</p>

<p>15) Andrew Yao: former stanford faculty </p>

<p>16) 17) 18) 3 other Turing award winners are former Stanford faculty. I don't remeber their names now. </p>

<p>In addition to that, Stanford created Sillicon Valley: the capital of information technology.</p>

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<p>Stanford=CMU=MIT for CS</p>

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<p>The comp sci programs at Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU are basically equally prestigious. The differences between them are practically negligible. Any employer who has to choose between graduates of these universities will not decide by what school you went to. What matters more is what you do there (internships, research, etc.).</p>

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<p>In faculty reputation, research, and inventions, Stanford has an edge over the other 3. Somebody may disagree, but in eyes of lots of academic peers, Stanford is the mega in CS.</p>

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<p>"in the eyes of lots of academic peers"</p>

<p>Riiiggggghhhttt.... </p>

<p>In any case, why does it bother you so much that Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU are basically EQUALS in Comp Sci... Why the need to "prove" that Stanford is 1.00000000000000000000001 times "better"?
When the schools are this close, the differences in "rankings" are just noise at this level.</p>

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<p>Jab93, Stanford is really better than all of them, by a significant amount.</p>

<p>18 Turing award winners are certainly more than 10 winners. Stanford created CISCO, netscape, yahoo, GOOGLE, SUN, and HP, etc. Stanford's
Knuth and McCArthy are the 2 best-known computer scientists in the whole world. </p>

<p>Stanford has made significantly more contributions than all the other 3.</p>

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<p>datalook,</p>

<p>quote:
"better than all of them, by a significant amount"</p>

<p>By a "significant" amount?? A significant amount??? Really?
Not true at all... US News ranks them TIED, the NRC rankings (which are the most respected) ranks Stanford first, but with the other three very, very, very close ... almost a 4 way tie... again, the differences in the rankings are so ridiculously close, much smaller than the margin of error in the analysis...By the way, Berkeley was very influential in the development of computer science... for example, see
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley&lt;/a>
It has a heading on Berkeley contributions to computer science if you scroll down...</p>

<p>So again, why does it matter to you so much? Does it somehow make you insecure that these 4 schools are basically equals in comp sci?
Why would being in a tie with such absolutely amazing schools like MIT, Berkeley, CMU (oh, let's not forget Cornell) really be so disturbing to you? Sounds like you have an inferiority complex...</p>