Tufts vs Harvard vs Vanderbilt vs Upenn

Mastadon
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:02:30 +0000

We looked at computer science salaries
We looked at computer science employers

Now we can look at undergraduate computer science research

For industry sponsored research awards (last 5 yrs of Computing Research Association):

Tufts has a larger number of awards than Harvard and double the percentage
Penn has less than half the awards of Tufts and a quarter of the percentage

For academic research fellowships (last 7 yrs of NSF awards)

Tufts and Harvard flip flop and Harvard has double the percentage of Tufts
Penn has one more award than Tufts, but a lower percentage

Computing Research Association Awards Sponsored by Microsoft & Mitsubishi (5 yrs)

…School…#Awards,Weighted…% Class…Grad Rank

1. UWashington…13…21…0.7…7

2. Princeton…13…20…2.2…8

3. Berkeley…10…24…0.7…4

4. Harvey Mudd…10…20…2.7…NR

5. Columbia…10…17…1.8…15

6. Cornell…10…16…0.9…6

7. Tufts…8…11…1.9…70
8 . UIUC…7…14…0.5…5

8. URochester…6…10…2.8…52
10.Harvard…5…9… …1.0…18

NR…UPenn…3…5…0.5,19

NSF Research Fellowships for graduate study (7yrs)

…# of…# of…Average
…School…Awards…Grads…%Class
1…MIT…40…283…2.0%
2…Prince…32…117…3.9%
3…CTech…15…60…3.6%
4…Olin…8…38…3.0%
5…Yale…10…51…2.8%
6…Mudd…13…78…2.4%
7…Harv…14…96…2.1%
8…Colum…15…126…1.7%
9…NW…6…52…1.6%
10.UCB…32…286…1.6%
11.Stan…23…217…1.5%
12.Rice…7…70…1.4%
13.CMU…19…211…1.3%
14.UVA…10…115…1.2%
15.Duke…5…68…1.1%
16.Tufts…6…83…1.0%
17.Cornell…15…213…1.0%
18.GTech …19…288…0.9%
19.UWash…20…357…0.8%
20.UPenn…7…127…0.8%