Be cautious with university rankings. Universities can be assessed by research, student satisfaction, teaching quality, cost, accessibility, or by specific fields. Some excel in computer science, others in medicine or the humanities.

A single overall ranking is therefore meaningless - look instead for the measure that matches your priorities. For instance, for research impact in computer science, see: https://csrankings.org/

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viccis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year in its students’ evaluation of teaching quality, which was the main driver in securing its third place in the overall university league table.

Yeah this is worthless. "Elite" colleges in the US value student evaluations of teaching VERY VERY highly in things like tenure review. Well, guess what kind of grades professors give almost every single student at those colleges... It's a race to the bottom. Students aren't experts in teaching; they're rarely even experts in learning coming out of modern secondary education.

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piker 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Similarly watch out for ultra-specific rankings that are used to dupe you into thinking the school excels at something that isn't a real category. My state alma mater managed to rank #2 (to HBS of course) in "international business" for years but really has a worthless MBA program. Pure marketing.

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ghostpepper 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a cool site. For anyone who doesn't feel like clicking, the top overall is Carnegie Mellon. There are three from China in the top 10, the other seven are American. ETH Zurich is the first outside of China/USA at number 12.

However if you select only AI, Carnegie Mellon drops to 3rd and only two of the top ten are outside Asia (mostly China but also National University of Singapore and KAIST in South Korea).

	▲	OhMeadhbh 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But honestly, why would you activate the "hype" category? I can go to my local community college if I want to hear people say "my AI is alive" or "you should always optimize locally." That being said... CMU always had a decent program (as did UIUC.) They came down in my estimation when they started granting trade school degrees. In the old days, you had to take a class on parsing and foundations of computing to graduate. You could talk to a grad who knew what a recursive descent parser was and what it's drawbacks were. And there's a chance they could understand the basics of Turing's paper(s). There's a maxim I read somewhere that undergrad was supposed to change the way you thought more than teaching you facts (and maybe skills.) What I liked about the old system is you were taught a concept (functional decomposition, for instance) and then concrete examples were given to support the concepts. Now it seems like students are taught where to download python packages and enough unix commands to type in example code from online forums. CS pedagogy in the states is a joke, but I guess if I want someone to write a PHP plugin for wordpress, I know where to go. #OldManYellsAtClouds

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danpalmer 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Research impact correlates to size, which may be directly opposed to getting a good education as smaller institutions may have more resources per student.

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zipy124 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This website massively skews towards publication count, e.g research quantity over quality. Vastly flawed.

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fsckboy 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

compare contrast

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...

	▲	SeanLuke 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		US News rankings are garbage based in no small part on opinion surveys and famously manipulated year over year. Though I strongly disagree with their choice of conferences, probably the best regarded ranking of computer science schools is CSRankings.org (https://csrankings.org/)

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anonymousDan 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good but has some bizarre omissions, e.g. PODC.

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eBombzor 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Rice at 53 is interesting