Dive Brief:
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Carnegie Mellon University top the QS World University Rankings’ list of the best universities for studying computer science and information systems.
- QS created the rankings based on a global survey of academics on their opinions of where the best work is done within their fields, as well as the frequency of citations for faculty research at the universities, Business Insider reports.
- In the top 25 listing, eight universities are located in the U.S.
Dive Insight:
Rounding out the top 10 list are the University of Cambridge at No. 4, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford, ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the National University of Singapore, and Princeton University. Five of the top 25 universities are in the United Kingdom, while three are in Hong Kong; two each are in Switzerland, Canada, Singapore and Australia; and one is in Japan.
