Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

Data10
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:11:20 +0000

RichInPitt:

really, Niche, Princeton isn’t a top 100 CS school?

As mentioned in the other thread, Niche claims Princeton does not have a CS major, so Niche does not rank them in CS. The bulk of Niche’s weightings more relate to overall rather than CS (50% from “overall” and SAT scores), and 20% relating to portion majoring in CS. Based on Niche methodology, I expect Princeton would have come in 3rd or 4th if they had a CS major (according to Niche)… slightly above Harvard and Yale (5th and 6th).

bookworm:

I’m not so sure about the CSR ranking, as it puts Caltech at #69

I’m not so sure about any of these rankings being especially meaningful – not just CSR. CSR is based on solely total number of publications by faculty. Caltech is smaller with less faculty, so it has less publications and gets a relatively poor ranking. If you only compare colleges with as little faculty as Caltech or smaller, then the CSR rankings are:

1. Caltech

2. Toyota Technical Institute (doesn’t have undergrad… not sure if they offer degrees)

3. Dartmouth

NJMom18:

Here is a good source for outcomes/employability.

This is just a list of the CollegeScorecard database for federal reported early career earnings among federal FA recipients. A couple things to consider when using the CollegeScorecard database are:

1. The sample size for federal FA recipients in a particular major at a particular college can be small. You can view the number of students in the sample and other relevant stats for each college when looking at the CS database directly, rather than via 3rd party websites.

2. In CS, salary is highly dependent on portion of the class that works in high cost of living areas, such as SV, NY, Boston, and Seattle. For Brown CS, the portion of class that works in these areas is close to 100%.