Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

Data10
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:15:29 +0000

MWolf:

Not garbage at all. It’s actually a very good ranking.

It can be a useful tool for people who are interested in looking up faculty at different colleges, including what types of research they are doing. However, is the ranking number itself meaningful? For example, with the default selections, a reader might see the following for 3 colleges that interest him in some way. And their relative ranking numbers tells him?

14 – Northeastern
25 – Stony Brook
64 – Caltech

I expect Caltech has highly research productive faculty, yet Caltech and other smaller colleges will inevitably be ranked relatively poorly because they have a small fraction of the total number of faculty members at larger colleges,.