Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

Data10
Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:28:34 +0000

There is a huge amount of variation in post graduate surveys… so much so, that it is difficult to estimate trends. Instead each college does their own unique thing. Some provide a detailed breakdown by major. Some just have a single page of general stats with no breakdowns. Some breakdown by for certain sub-schools and not others, such as just school of engineering and not school of humanities. Some do not provide any earnings information. Some have detailed earnings information, but do not make it public. As an example, I’ll go through the list of colleges ranked n the composite list from the first post.

1. MIT – Detailed breakdown by major including sample size, employer, and many other stats

2. Stanford – Detailed breakdown by major, but not public (as far as I know)

3. CMU – Detailed breakdown by major including sample size, employer, and other stats via database

4. Cornell – Engineering school has breakdown by major. Some of the other Cornell schools do not.

5. Harvard – Links to Crimson senior survey, which does not break down by major. Not sure if there is a non-Crimson publication?

6. GeorgiaTech – Detailed breakdown by major and other factors. Outputs sample size, placement rate, and other stats via database. Apparently some of the major specific selections on the database require “FERPA training” to unlock?

7. Columbia – 1 page general summary that does not break down by major. Not sure, if anything else is available?

8. UCLA – Has database with a lot of information, but did not see salary by major

9. UCB – Similar database to UCLA, but provides salary breakdown by major, most common employer by major, and numerous other useful stats

10. UM – At least provides a breakdown by major for engineering/CS… not sure about all the other schools