CraigT

Hi,
I am not sure how many people can help me since this seems to mainly be a forum for undergraduate school, but it is increasingly difficult to get help with Graduate School from advisers at your own school. I am hoping people can assist me with finding schools that has a graduate school for Computer Science or even more specific Human Computer Interaction. If anyone knows a good website that can rank the schools as well, I am looking at both public and private colleges and they can be international. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

20LEGEND

Carnegie Mellon.

CraigT

Yeah I was looking into Carnegie Mellon,
I have actually a okay list of schools but nothing that really gives me a rating system.

kyledavid80

Here's the NRC ranking with 100+ schools ranked:

NRC Rankings in Each of 41 Areas

It's a little old (1995)--the new ones are due later on this year, but they shouldn't be very different.

If human-computer interaction is what you want, I'd recommend Stanford in particular--they have quite a few courses to do with it, including:

CS247 Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (project-based)
CS247L Human-Computer Interaction Technology Lab
CS377 Topics in Human-Computer Interaction
CS377A Introduction to Cybernetics and the Design of Systems
CS377S Designing Applications that See

as well as various other courses, like Reasoning Methods in Artificial Intelligence. It's also prominent in research at Stanford--see this page for more info:

HCI at Stanford

Berkeley also has a nice focus on HCI:

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) | EECS at UC Berkeley

jessiehl

If you're willing to go overseas...a colleague at work who specializes in HCI did his PhD at Cambridge, and really liked it.

kyledavid80

A few other things I found:

CMU actually has its own HCI institute:

Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie Mellon University

It seems to be a big part of CS at CMU.

CraigT

yeah I had seen that and thank you, the only problem is CMU is an extremely hard school to get into but I am going to be studying for the GRE's for the next 4 months... but I will have 3 core classes (quarter system) the same time I will be forced to take them and hoping I won't have any tests during that period.

MelissaE

I'm actually a graduate student at DePaul University majoring in HCI. They are located in Chicago, IL. I'm not sure how they rank, but they have a very large and varied program. You can look at their program by going to: DePaul CDM – College of Computing and Digital Media – formerly the School of Computer Science, Telecommuincations and Information Systems.