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Oxford University ranked first in the world for Computer Science

5 October 2021

For the second year running the University of Oxford has been ranked first in the world for Computer Science in the Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings.

891 universities from 75 countries and regions are ranked for Computer Science. With Europe claiming 31 of the top 100 positions and an impressive 82 of the top 200. The University of Cambridge and Switzerland’s EHT Zurich claimed joint fourth.

Prof. Leslie Ann Goldberg, head of Computer Science, said “I’m very pleased with this continuing recognition of the outstanding teaching and research taking place in our department.’’

The Department is one of the longest-established Computer Science departments in the world and is the home to a community of world-class research and teaching. Research activities encompass core Computer Science (algorithms, data, programming languages, and artificial intelligence), as well as human-centred computing, automated verification, computational biology, cyber physical systems, quantum computing and security.

Its research is focused on methods for solving problems using computers and the design of programming languages and computational systems. It brings together world-class minds with external partners - combining rigorous theory and practical applications. Recent research projects include:

• A new technology that will pilot the detection of flood events from space. The work is a first step towards relaying real time information from space to disaster response teams during flood events and could significantly improving disaster response operations.
• Harnessing new machine leaning techniques to identify individual lion roars. This ability, to remotely evaluate the number of individual lions in a population from their roars, could revolutionise the way in which lion populations are assessed.
• Created an AI algorithm that for the first time allows us to see, in high resolution, the Moon’s polar regions that are home to craters and other depressions that never receive sunlight.

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Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings by subject Computer Science https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2022/subject-ranking/computer-science

For interviews or other requests, please contact: Rob Ashley, Strategic Communication, Oxford University; [email protected]  

About the University of Oxford Oxford University has been placed number 1 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the sixth year running, and at the heart of this success is our ground-breaking research and innovation. Oxford is world-famous for research excellence and home to some of the most talented people from across the globe. Our work helps the lives of millions, solving real-world problems through a huge network of partnerships and collaborations. The breadth and interdisciplinary nature of our research sparks imaginative and inventive insights and solutions. Through its research commercialisation arm, Oxford University Innovation, Oxford is the highest university patent filer in the UK and is ranked first in the UK for university spinouts, having created more than 200 new companies since 1988. Over a third of these companies have been created in the past three years.

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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI received his first computer at the age of eight. He studied computer science at Stanford University, but dropped out after one year to co-found Loopt, a social networking application that was sold a few years later for $43.4 million.

He became a partner and then president at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator which has supported Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Quora, Stripe and more than 4,000 other companies with a combined valuation of more than $600 billion by January 2023.

In 2020, he left Y Combinator to focus full-time on OpenAI as CEO, and since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022 we have been talking about little else.

“Now is the best time to start a career in tech,” he said to an audience last week at the Technological University of Munich, Germany’s top-ranked institution for computer science and engineering.

So what’s the secret to kickstart your career in tech? For many the journey begins with studies in computer science, now one of the hottest majors on campus with the promise of six-figure starting salaries that used to be the preserve of MBAs.

BlueSky Thinking has compiled the Ranking of Computer Science Rankings 2023, aggregating the results of the four major global subject rankings published every year by Times Higher Education (THE), QS, US News and ARWU (Shanghai).

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You can view the results for the world’s top 50 universities for computer science here.

While U.S. universities fill the top four places, and Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and U Washington also make the top 15, institutions in Europe, Canada and Asia Pacific represent close to 60% of the world’s top 50.

Each university subject ranking uses a distinct methodology and measures different things with the inherent limitations of each assessment, so doing particularly well in one ranking and less well in another is reflected in the overall performance.

The University of Oxford is ranked #1 in the world by THE, but only #11 by US News, while China’s Tsinghua University is ranked #1 by US News but only #15 by QS. But all four rankings consistently rate MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon at the top.

However, they cannot agree on the University of Cambridge, the alma mater of Alan Turing who is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. There are over 300 companies started by computer science and technology graduates and staff of the university, and research that continues to lead the field.

Though Cambridge is ranked #6 in computer science by THE and #7 by QS, US News has them at #41 and ARWU Shanghai only #62.

According to compensation data company, Payscale the average base salary in the U.S. with a Masters in computer science is $109k per year, quickly rising based on seniority. And demand is there. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that the world’s tech talent shortage will swell to more than 85 million tech workers by 2030.

That’s just as well, because tuition of a Computer Science program from one of the leading schools in the US can be over $60,000 per year. In Europe salaries are lower, but beyond the elite universities there are new entrants in Higher Education, such as the Open Institute of Technology (OPIT) that have brought together faculty from the likes of the University of Michigan, Northwestern and McGill to offer a BSc in Computer Science and a MSc in Applied Data Science & AI for as little as €300 per month. As an EU-accredited institution, international students will be able to apply for jobs in the EU, with salaries to match.

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So now is a great time to start a career in tech, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman insists. In his case, Altman never finished his undergrad at Stanford, joining an illustrious of computer science dropouts that include Mark Zuckerburg who left Harvard in his sophomore year to dedicate his time to Facebook, and Bill Gates who walked away from devising algorithms for pancake sorting as part of his mathematics and graduate level computer science courses at Harvard to start a software company with Paul Allen that is now Microsoft.

“Now is the best time to start a career in tech.” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and founder of ChatGPT ... [+] (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

When explaining his decision to leave Harvard, Gates said "if things hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. I was officially on leave."

That wasn’t quite the case for Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak who was expelled from the University of Colorado, Boulder for hacking the university’s computer system. He later transferred to UC Berkeley, where Steve Jobs would visit him a few times a week. Wozniak dropped out of college soon after, this time to start a business together.

But for every entrepreneurial tech superstar who never finished school, there are plenty of others that used their computer science studies to incredible effect. While studying computer engineering at the University of Michigan, the co-founder of Google Larry Page created an inkjet printer made of Lego bricks. Meanwhile, his future business partner Sergey Brin was completing his computer science undergrad at the University of Maryland. They would both go on to get their MSc computer science at Stanford, and from there begin a computer science Ph.D., co-authoring a paper titled, “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.” Dorm rooms became laboratories and offices, and the rest is history.

Ginni Rometty, the former chairman and CEO of IBM – the first woman to head the company - graduated with high honors from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering. This was the same combination of majors for Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon who graduated from Princeton in 1986.

Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix was rejected from his first-choice MIT, and obtained a Master’s in Computer Science at Stanford in 1988, a decade before the former CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer. The co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, Drew Houston was offered a place to study computer science at MIT and it was there that he met his future business partner, Arash Ferdowsi.

But for Barbara Liskov, whose pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, her graduate school application to Princeton was unsuccessful as the Ivy League school did not accept female students in mathematics. In March 1968 she became one of the first women in the U.S. to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department when she was awarded her degree from Stanford University.

Anita Borg is celebrated for advocating for women’s representation and professional advancement in technology, and founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Borg was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science by NYU in 1981.

“The presence - or absence - of women in the computing and technological fields, as students, ... [+] inventors, creators and educators, will define our technological future.” Anita Borg, Institute for Women and Technology (Photo by Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Outside the U.S., Ma Huateng (Pony Ma), co-founder and CEO of Tencent, one of the most valuable companies in Asia, received a BSc in computer science from Shenzen University. He is the first citizen from China to enter Forbes’ top 10 richest list.

And when it comes to widely-used programming languages, Python was created by Guido Van Rossum who computer science at the University of Amsterdam, while University of Calgary and Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist, James Gosling founded and led the design of Java.

And if you do fancy combining undergraduate studies with an MBA, look no further than Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft who headed to the U.S. from India to study computer science at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and then got his MBA from Chicago Booth. There is also Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder and CEO of Yelp with a BS computer engineering from Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

And let’s not forget that Jimmy Fallon, the late-night talk show host was originally a computer science major at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York before switching to communications in his senior year.

So what about you? Whether at one of the world’s top 50 computer sciences schools , or a more affordable online alternative, are you ready to start your career in tech?

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The University of Massachusetts continued its ascent as one of the top colleges and universities in the nation in the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE)’ s World University Rankings released on Oct. 25. Rising two spots over THE ’s 2022 rankings, UMass is now 56th among U.S. higher ed institutions and ranks 28th among all U.S. public universities. UMass remains the top public university in New England, a position it has held in the Times Higher Education rankings since 2014. 

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NUS ranked among top 10 worldwide for Computer Science and Engineering

The University’s Computer Science and Engineering courses have been placed in the top 10 across the world , according to the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject .

NUS also tops the rankings among Asian universities for these subjects.

Eighth spot globally for Computer Science

The 2022 rankings marked the second straight year that NUS was placed eighth for Computer Science. It remains the top Asian university for the in-demand subject, with the rest of the top 10 from either the United States or Europe. The University of Oxford took pole position, followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Overall, 891 universities from 75 countries and regions were ranked for this subject.

“(In Computer Science), Asia impresses as the National University of Singapore (eighth place) holds onto a top 10 place for a second consecutive year,” said Times Higher Education in a statement on 6 Oct.

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NUS also remains the top Asian university for Engineering. It moved into 10th spot, rising two spots from 12th in the 2021 rankings.

“The United States is the outright global leader for Engineering. However, there is significant competition from the rest of the world. In the top 10 alone there are representatives from the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Singapore – whose National University of Singapore (10th) is the only new entrant into this year’s elite group,” said Times Higher Education.

Harvard University was rated the best university for Engineering, followed by Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The Engineering ranking assessed 1,188 universities from 85 countries and regions.

Times Higher Education announced last month that NUS rose four places to emerge 21st in the overall World University Rankings – the best showing by NUS, and Singapore, since the rankings started in 2010 . The University also retained its position as the third best university in Asia.

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For the subjects announced on 16 Sep, NUS climbed two spots to 16th for Physical Sciences; rose one position to 24th in Life Sciences; and improved by one rank to 17th for the Clinical and Health domain. It slipped by one spot to 58th for the study of Psychology.

The Computing and Engineering rankings on 6 Oct were the second batch to be announced.

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The rankings cover courses, research output, campus blockchain offerings (like student clubs and research centres), employment outcomes, academic reputation and cost.

“Overall, the National University of Singapore is in first place as a result of its multiple blockchain research centers, its frequently hosted blockchain-themed conferences, its many blockchain clubs, its company partnerships and its Masters programme in digital financial technology ,” said CoinDesk.

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Australian universities make strong progress in both subjects, while californian institutions are on the rise in computer science.

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The US and UK continue to be world leaders on computer science and engineering, but Australian universities are making considerable gains, according to the latest Times Higher Education subject rankings.

The University of Oxford remains world number one for computer science in a top ten otherwise dominated by six US-based institutions. Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology maintain second and third spots, followed by ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Cambridge .

The University of California, Berkeley , jumps from ninth to joint-eighth place, highlighting a trend of Californian universities ascending the computer science rankings.

The University of California, Los Angeles climbs from joint-16th place to 11th, California Institute of Technology jumps from 25th place last year to 13th, and the University of California, San Diego rises from 37th to 33rd. The University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Davis also improve their rankings.

The increases were all driven by significant rises in scores for working with industry, along with improvements in research and teaching, and may reflect geographical ties to Silicon Valley.

US universities in general score higher for industry income via computer science departments than their UK counterparts. The average score for working with industry for US universities was 46.2 out of 100 compared to 42.7 for the UK.

Californian universities score higher than the rest of the US with an average score of 53. The University of Oxford scores 46.5 on industry income compared to 92.8 and 84 for Stanford and MIT respectively.

Several Australian universities have jumped up the computer science rankings, with the University of Melbourne rising from 64th to 51st place and overtaking UNSW Sydney to become the new top institution in the country, and Australian National University rising from 65th to joint-56th.

Australian institutions have also made big gains in the engineering table; there are now eight in the top 100 compared to seven last year. Every Australian university in the top 100 improved their ranking this year, with the University of Queensland making the biggest jump from 88 to 66.

The top of the engineering table is dominated by the US, however, as Oxford drops from second to sixth place. Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley now take the top three spots with virtually the same scores as last year.

ETH Zurich and the National University of Singapore are the only universities outside of the US and UK to make the top ten for engineering, coming in at ninth and tenth place respectively.

The publication of the computer science and engineering rankings follows the release of four health and science subject rankings last month:  clinical and health ,  life sciences ,  physical sciences  and  psychology . 

The other five  THE  subject rankings for 2022 will be released on the following dates:

• 13 October – Social sciences, business and economics, education and law 
• 3 November – Arts and humanities 

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