Rankings for Computer Science (the full results and analysis can be found here)
[NR means Not Ranked]
| Rank 2018 | Previous year | Institution | Country |
| 1 | NR | Stanford University | United States |
| 2 | 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3 | 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 4 | 1 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 5 | NR | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| =6 | 2 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| =6 | 12 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 8 | 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 9 | 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 10 | 8 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 11 | NR | Harvard University | United States |
| 12 | NR | Princeton University | United States |
| 13 | 10 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 14 | 16 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 15 | 11 | Cornell University | United States |
| 16 | 9 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 17 | 13 | University of Washington | United States |
| 18 | 12 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 19 | 20 | Columbia University | United States |
| 20 | 21 | Tsinghua University | China |
Methodology Facts
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. THE uses 13 calibrated performance indicators to try and provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons.
Please see below for more information on the methodologies for each ranking:
Times Higher Education Subject Rankings 2018
The Times Higher Education Subject Rankings includes narrower subject areas. Below is the list of subjects used to create the two subject rankings:
| Engineering & Technology ranking | Computer Science ranking | |
| Subject areas | . General Engineering . Electrical and Electronic Engineering . Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering .Civil Engineering .Chemical Engineering |
. Computer Science |
Different Weights and Measures
The subject tables employ the same range of 13 performance indicators used in the overall World University Rankings 2018, brought together with scores provided under five categories. However, the overall methodology is recalibrated for each subject, with the weightings changed to suit the individual fields.
The weightings for the two subject rankings are:
| Pillars | Engineering & Technology | Computer Science |
| Teaching: the learning environment | 30% | 30% |
| Research: volume, income and reputation | 30% | 30% |
| Citations: research influence | 27.5% | 27.5% |
| International outlook: Staff, students and research | 7.5% | 7.5% |
| Industry income: innovation | 5% | 5% |
Criteria
No institution can be included in the overall World University Rankings unless it has published a minimum of 1,000 research papers over the five years we examine.
For the eleven subject tables, the thresholds are set differently. For engineering and technology, the threshold drops to 500 papers published in this discipline over the last five years. And THE expects an institution to have at least 4 percent of its staff working in this discipline in order to include it in the subject table.
For computer science, the threshold drops to 500 papers published in this discipline over the last five years. And THE expects an institution to have at least 1 percent of its staff working in this discipline in order to include it in the subject table.
Material from press releases were used in this report.
- 25 education trends for 2018 - January 1, 2018
- IT #1: 6 essential technologies on the higher ed horizon - December 27, 2017
- #3: 3 big ways today’s college students are different from just a decade ago - December 27, 2017