Global CS Rankings 2026
Snapshot 2026-09-16. QS Subject 2026 Computer Science: MIT 94.9 No. 1, Stanford 92.9, Carnegie Mellon 90.9. THE CS: Oxford 97.7. No blended score.
Snapshot 2026-09-16. The main table is QS Subject 2026 Computer Science & Information Systems, published 25 March 2026 (849 universities). MIT is first at 94.9, Stanford 92.9, Carnegie Mellon 90.9. The engineering broad area sits in Global Engineering 2026. Languages: programming languages. Models: LLM rankings 2026.
QS Subject 2026 Computer Science & Information Systems
MIT scores 97.3 on employer reputation, 94.7 on academic reputation, 94 on H-index, 93.6 on citations per paper, and 88.2 on the international research network. Most of the top 10 are in the United States. NUS and Oxford share fourth at 89.8. Tsinghua is 11th at 84.9. Ties follow the site: Columbia, NYU, Edinburgh and the University of Washington share 22 at 78.5; HKU, UBC and Waterloo share 27 at 76.9. The numbers are copied from the live QS page and are not blended with THE.
| QS | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | United States | 94.9 |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States | 92.9 |
| 3 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 90.9 |
| =4 | NUS | Singapore | 89.8 |
| =4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 89.8 |
| 6 | UC Berkeley | United States | 89.1 |
| 7 | Harvard University | United States | 89 |
| 8 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.5 |
| 9 | NTU Singapore | Singapore | 88.1 |
| 10 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 85.9 |
| 11 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 84.9 |
| 12 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 83.4 |
| 13 | University of Toronto | Canada | 82.8 |
| 14 | Princeton University | United States | 82.4 |
| 15 | EPFL | Switzerland | 81.6 |
| 16 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 81.4 |
| 17 | Cornell University | United States | 79.7 |
| 18 | Institute of Science Tokyo | Japan | 79.4 |
| 19 | UCLA | United States | 79 |
| 20 | UCL | United Kingdom | 78.9 |
| 21 | Yale University | United States | 78.6 |
| =22 | Columbia University | United States | 78.5 |
| =22 | NYU | United States | 78.5 |
| =22 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 78.5 |
| =22 | University of Washington | United States | 78.5 |
| 26 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 77.9 |
| =27 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR | 76.9 |
| =27 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 76.9 |
| =27 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 76.9 |
| 30 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China (Mainland) | 76.7 |
THE 2026 Computer Science
THE scores software, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity and networks, among other topics. The 2026 table covers 1,165 universities in 84 countries and territories. Oxford leads at 97.7, Cambridge 97.1, ETH Zurich 96.3. Peking University enters the top 10 for the first time at 93.2. Caltech is 11th at 93.1 on this ruler and is not among the 30 schools copied from the QS page.
| THE | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Oxford | 英国 | 97.7 |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | 英国 | 97.1 |
| 3 | ETH Zurich | 瑞士 | 96.3 |
| 4 | MIT | 美国 | 96.2 |
| 5 | Princeton University | 美国 | 96.1 |
| 6 | Stanford University | 美国 | 95.9 |
| 7 | Carnegie Mellon University | 美国 | 95.5 |
| 8 | Harvard University | 美国 | 93.8 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | 英国 | 93.5 |
| 10 | Peking University | 中国内地 | 93.2 |
| 11 | Caltech | 美国 | 93.1 |
| 12 | Tsinghua University | 中国内地 | 93.0 |
| =13 | NUS | 新加坡 | 92.8 |
| =13 | UC Berkeley | 美国 | 92.8 |
| 15 | Technical University of Munich | 德国 | 91.5 |
Chinese mainland and Hong Kong
On QS Computer Science & Information Systems: Tsinghua is 11th (84.9), Peking University 16th (81.4), HKU shares 27th (76.9), Shanghai Jiao Tong 30th (76.7). On THE Computer Science: Peking University is 10th (93.2), Tsinghua 12th (93.0), Zhejiang 23rd (87.2); Shanghai Jiao Tong and HKUST share 25th at 86.3.
| THE | University | Location | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Peking University | 中国内地 | 93.2 |
| 12 | Tsinghua University | 中国内地 | 93.0 |
| 23 | Zhejiang University | 中国内地 | 87.2 |
| =25 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 中国内地 | 86.3 |
| =25 | HKUST | 中国香港 | 86.3 |
How this list is ranked
Snapshot 2026-09-16. The main table is QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 · Computer Science & Information Systems, published 25 March 2026 (849 universities). Whole-university tables sit in Global Universities 2026. Chinese undergraduate tables: China Universities 2026. Engineering: Global Engineering 2026. Medicine: Global Medicine 2026. Law: Global Law Rankings 2026. MBA: Global MBA 2026. Languages: programming languages. Models: LLM rankings 2026. THE uses Computer Science 2026. Names: docs/glossaries/cs-schools-2026-glossary.md.
| Source | Snapshot | Basis | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS Subject 2026 Computer Science & Information Systems | Published 2026-03-25; rechecked 2026-09-16 | 849 universities; MIT 94.9; employer reputation 97.3, academic reputation 94.7, H-index 94, citations per paper 93.6, IRN 88.2 | Primary |
| THE Computer Science 2026 | 2026 edition | 1,165 universities / 84 territories; Oxford 97.7; software, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity and networks | Support |
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