Computer Science (Ph.D.)
(Ranked in 2006*)
| Rank/School | Average assessment score (5 = highest) | |
| 1. | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) | 5.0 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5.0 | |
| Stanford University (CA) | 5.0 | |
| University of California–Berkeley | 5.0 | |
| 5. | Cornell University (NY) | 4.6 |
| University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 4.6 | |
| 7. | University of Washington | 4.5 |
| 8. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.4 |
| 9. | University of Texas–Austin | 4.3 |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4.3 | |
| 11. | California Institute of Technology | 4.2 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 4.2 | |
| 13. | University of California–San Diego | 4.0 |
| University of Maryland–College Park | 4.0 | |
| 15. | Harvard University (MA) | 3.9 |
| University of California–Los Angeles | 3.9 | |
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 3.9 | |
| 18. | Columbia University (NY) | 3.8 |
| Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) | 3.8 | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 3.8 | |
| Yale University (CT) | 3.8 | |
| 22. | Brown University (RI) | 3.7 |
| Rice University (TX) | 3.7 | |
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 3.7 | |
| 25. | Duke University (NC) | 3.6 |
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 3.6 | |
| University of Southern California | 3.6 | |
| 28. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.5 |
| 29. | New York University | 3.4 |
| Rutgers State University–New Brunswick (NJ) | 3.4 | |
| University of California–Irvine | 3.4 | |
| University of Virginia | 3.4 | |
| 33. | Pennsylvania State University–University Park | 3.3 |
| 34. | Ohio State University | 3.2 |
| SUNY–Stony Brook | 3.2 | |
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 3.2 | |
| University of Chicago | 3.2 | |
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 3.2 | |
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 3.2 | |
| 40. | Dartmouth College (NH) | 3.1 |
| Northwestern University (IL) | 3.1 | |
| University of Arizona | 3.1 | |
| University of California–Davis | 3.1 | |
| University of Rochester (NY) | 3.1 | |
| University of Utah | 3.1 | |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.1 | |
| 47. | Indiana University–Bloomington | 3.0 |
| North Carolina State University | 3.0 | |
| University of Florida | 3.0 | |
| Virginia Tech | 3.0 | |
| 51. | Arizona State University | 2.9 |
| Michigan State University | 2.9 | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) | 2.9 | |
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 2.9 | |
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.9 | |
| 56. | Boston University | 2.8 |
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 2.8 | |
| 58. | University at Buffalo–SUNY | 2.7 |
| University of Illinois–Chicago | 2.7 | |
| 60. | Colorado State University | 2.6 |
| George Mason University (VA) | 2.6 | |
| Iowa State University | 2.6 | |
| Oregon State University | 2.6 | |
| University of California–Riverside | 2.6 | |
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 2.6 | |
| University of Oregon | 2.6 | |
| 67. | Case Western Reserve University (OH) | 2.5 |
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.5 | |
| University of Iowa | 2.5 | |
| University of New Mexico | 2.5 | |
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.5 | |
| 67. | Northeastern University (MA) ** | 2.5 |
*This ranking was computed in January of the year cited,
based on data from a survey sent out in the fall of the previous year.
** The school was mistakenly left out of the 2006 survey because of an
error in interpreting data from the National Science Foundation's WebCASPAR
database. Data and rankings from the 2002 survey appear.
