These IL Schools Made a List of the 50 Most Innovative Computer Science Programs
Jim Dalke, ChicagoInno
Published: December 3, 2014
From price, to average graduate salary, to the quality of the faculty, there are a lot of factors to consider when deciding on what college to attend. One that's often overlooked--and difficult to define--is the amount of innovation coming out of the program.
Computer Science Degree Hub took a shot at quantifying America's most innovative computer science programs and recently ranked its top 50 departments, with four Illinois colleges cracking the list.
The department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked the highest in the state at No. 12, followed by the University of Chicago at No. 21, UIC at No. 26, and Northwestern at No. 40.
Factors that went into Computer Science Degree Hub's rankings include state-of-the-art technology, advanced research facilities, faculty awards, alumni achievements, contributions to the wider field, and other criteria.
Here's the full list:
50. Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
49. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
48. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University
47. School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
46. Department of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
45. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University
44. Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
43. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
42. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
41. Computer Science Department, New York University
40. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University
39. School of Computing, The University of Utah
38. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
37. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
36. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
35. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
34. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
33. Computer Science Department, Boston University
32. Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
31. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
30. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
29. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
28. Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
27. School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
26. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
25. Rice University Computer Science, Rice University
24. Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine
23. Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
22. Brown Computer Science, Brown University
21. Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
20. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
19. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
18. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
17. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
16. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
15. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
14. Department of Computer Science, Yale University
13. Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
12. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
10. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
9. UCLA Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles
8. Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
7. Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
6. Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
5. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
4. Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
3. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
2. Computer Science Department, Stanford University
1. MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology