Communications of the ACM
The World's Top Universities in Computer Science, 2020
The University of Oxford tops the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings for computer science, while Stanford University ranks second. Switzerland's ETH Zurich ranks third and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranks fourth. The University of Cambridge rounds out the top five.
The National University of Singapore is the highest-ranked Asian institution in 11th place, closely followed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore at 13th.
Iran joins the top 250 for the first time, with Sharif University of Technology debuting in the 201-250 band.
The following table shows the top 25 computer science universities in the 2020 rankings. FTE is the number of full-time-equivalent students.
| Rank | University Country/region |
No. of FTE Students | No. of students per staff | Int'l Students | Female:Male Ratio |
| 1 | University of Oxford United Kingdom |
20,664 | 11.2 | 41% | 46:54 |
| 2 | Stanford University United States |
16,135 | 7.3 | 23% | 43:57 |
| 3 | ETH Zurich Switzerland |
18,956 | 12.5 | 39% | 32:68 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States |
11,247 | 8.6 | 34% | 39:61 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge United Kingdom |
18,978 | 10.9 | 37% | 47:53 |
| 6 | Carnegie Mellon University United States |
13,430 | 13.6 | 48% | 41:59 |
| 7 | Imperial College London United Kingdom |
16,760 | 11.7 | 56% | 38:62 |
| 8 | Harvard University United States |
20,823 | 9.2 | 24% | 49:51 |
| 9 | Princeton University United States |
7,983 | 8.1 | 25% | 45:55 |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology United States |
2,240 | 6.4 | 30% | 34:66 |
| 11 | National University of Singapore Singapore |
30,869 | 17.9 | 28% | 52:49 |
| 12 | University of California, Los Angeles United States |
41,066 | 9.4 | 17% | 54:46 |
| 13 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Singapore |
25,088 | 15.9 | 27% | 48:52 |
| 14 | Cornell University United States |
22,319 | 9.8 | 25% | 49:51 |
| 15 | Tsinghua University China |
38,783 | 12.0 | 11% | 34:66 |
| 16 | Georgia Institute of Technology United States |
21,372 | 18.3 | 27% | 33:67 |
| 17 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong |
10,125 | 22.3 | 31% | NA |
| 18 | Technical University of Munich Germany |
40,472 | 47.8 | 27% | 34:66 |
| 19 | UCL (University College London) United Kingdom |
32,665 | 10.6 | 52% | 57:43 |
| 20 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland |
10,492 | 11.4 | 59% | 28:72 |
| 21 | Columbia University United States |
26,586 | 5.8 | 37% | NA |
| 22 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States |
42,982 | 8.3 | 17% | 49:51 |
| 23 | University of Toronto Canada |
73,370 | 20.1 | 21% | 59:41 |
| 24 | University of Edinburgh United Kingdom |
29,433 | 12.8 | 41% | 60:40 |
| 25 | University of Texas at Austin United States |
49,165 | 17.2 | 10% | 52:48 |
View the World University Rankings 2020 for the top 749 universities in computer science.
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