Top computer science schools in the US & Canada

Of the 400 universities featured in this year’s computer science ranking, 17 are located in Canada. The highest ranked of these, the University of Torontocomes in joint 16th place (20th in the overall QS World University Rankings® 2014/15). Following in close

stead are the University of British Colombia (43rd in the world rankings) and the University of Waterloo(169th in the world rankings) which share 24th place.

Predictably given its overall clout in the higher education world, the US has a total of 70 entries, including six in the top 10 alone. Just outside of the top 10, you’ll find the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 17th place (37th in the world rankings), the University of Washington in 20th (65th in the world rankings), the University of Texas at Austin in 22nd (79th in the world rankings), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, 8th in the world rankings) and Columbia University (14th in the world rankings) in joint 27th , and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (63rd in the world rankings) at 30th. Seventeen more US universities are ranked within the world’s top 100 computer science schools.