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Google (PageRank) based ranking of CS schools
- msbarnett 15y agoIs the phrase "Computing Science" only in use outside of the US, then? It seems to be in common usage in Canada (it's what my alma mater called the department) and seemingly at least parts of the UK (as at the University of Glasgow), and is definitely used to mean what is meant by Computer Science in the US, as distinct from Computational Science.
- leecbaker 15y agoI quickly typed Computing Science in Google, and got the following list: University of Auckland Victoria University of Wellington University of Waikato University of Alberta Simon Fraser University Toronto CMU University of Glasgow Oxford Stanford Georgia Tech Berkeley Newcastle University UT Austin UCLA University of Canterbury University of Cambridge Harvard Caltech Auckland University of Technology Stony Brook My location is probably pretty clear (New Zealand).While on some level it is useful to get a ranking weighted by places that are geographically relevant, it does mean that we will probably all have different lists.
- asciident 15y agoAnother pseudo-scientific source of CS school rankings is best paper awards at academic conferences. The list tightly matches the U.S. news rankings but not the Google rankings in the article. 1) Carnegie Mellon University 2) University of Washington 2) Stanford University 4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5) University of California Berkeley 6) Cornell University 7) University of Toronto 8) University of Texas at Austin 8) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10) University of British Columbia source: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html PS: The linked article is misleading, as "PageRank" is only one of hundreds of signals Google uses for ranking. I originally thought the article's ranking uses the links between schools, but it doesn't. It would be more accurate to simply call it a Google search result ranking.
- dmoy 15y agoHow exactly does PageRank correlate to any measure of quality for a school? I see no description of methodology other than "we typed it into Google." Why is a Google search ranking relevant?
- ig1 15y agoGoogle no longer uses pagerank for thir rankings. They take into account many factors including your IP address, your location, etc so the ranking that the author sees is likely different from the ranking anyone else sees.
- rdrey 15y agoI agree, this is absolutely silly. I have been to the University of Cape Town's Computer Science page dozens of times. My alma mater is the best CS University in the world!
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- sschaevitz 15y ago"We also hope to automate this process even further, thus eliminating the need to type up a report or even look at this web page again." The author seems to himself not take this publication too seriously.
- hsshah 15y agoThis is a ranking of SEOs of CS schools rather than overall quality of the institutions that 'US News' ranking is trying to capture.
- azarias 15y agoI'm pretty sure this is for amusement only. Remzi (a well known researcher in file systems) is also quite humorous.
- Urgo 15y agoWell that's interesting. I got a CS degree from U Mass. Cool to see it at the top of the list (3rd and 4th) :) (Any other UMass Amherst CS Alums here?)