Best universities for Computer Science

12 universities with real, published QS World University Rankings by Subject positions in computer science — always a band, never a guessed exact position.

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

🇺🇸 United States · Cambridge, MA

#1–2

QS band

#1

overall

☆2

Stanford University

🇺🇸 United States · Stanford, CA

#1–3

QS band

#3

overall

☆3

Carnegie Mellon University

🇺🇸 United States · Pittsburgh, PA

#1–4

QS band

#41

overall

☆4

University of California, Berkeley

🇺🇸 United States · Berkeley, CA

#3–6

QS band

#11

overall

☆5

Tsinghua University

🇨🇳 China · Beijing

#1–10

QS band

#22

overall

☆6

Princeton University

🇺🇸 United States · Princeton, NJ

#5–15

QS band

#6

overall

☆7

ETH Zurich

🇨🇭 Switzerland · Zurich

#5–15

QS band

#13

overall

☆8

Peking University

🇨🇳 China · Beijing

#5–20

QS band

#20

overall

☆9

National University of Singapore

🇸🇬 Singapore · Singapore

#8–20

QS band

#17

overall

☆10

Georgia Institute of Technology

🇺🇸 United States · Atlanta, GA

#8–20

QS band

#137

overall

☆11

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

🇺🇸 United States · Urbana, IL

#10–20

QS band

#87

overall

☆12

KAIST

🇰🇷 South Korea · Daejeon

#10–25

QS band

#59

overall

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Sourced from QS World University Rankings by Subject, shown as published bands. Coverage is deliberately partial — a university missing here isn't "unranked in computer science", it's outside the well-documented tier this site limits itself to. A university's overall aggregate rank blends eight ranking sources; see the methodology.