Anonymous
04/18/2026 11:34
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
CS prof here. CSranking is strictly about faculty' s research output in particular conferences/journals, not at all related to education quality. In this metric, this ranking is very accurate for UMD. UMD has been a top-10 CS research department and graduate program. All the CS faculty is internationally well known.
what would you use for education quality then.
UMD has been near the top of this list for a while
+1. Where can we get rankings of education quality for CS undergraduates?
The closest I can find is measuring the graduates - CodeSignal; https://codesignal.com/university-ranking/2025
The typical comment against the ranking is the sample size is not that large. Merge the results with CSRankings and Throw in percentage of grads employed. This will give you a good/great school.
Just don't use that USNWR thing - it just looks too suspect.
Code signal just released their 2026 rankings.
Yep - I could find a direct link to 2026 rankings just the articles around it. Here is what Forbes is saying that DCUM has been going back and forth on:
The real lesson of the 2026 ranking is not that prestige no longer matters. It is that prestige matters less when employers have better ways to assess competence directly
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rayravaglia/2026/04/13/codesignals-university-ranking-report-reveals-higher-eds-blind-spot/
Anonymous
04/18/2026 10:36
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:This list explains why I’ve been hearing about a lot of CS majors transferring from Stanford to UMD.
Touche. Satire is so rare on DCUM.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 10:34
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Purely looking at No11,
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
it's hard to believe this ranking.
+1.
NE is probably the most skilled university at gaming college rankings among all universities located outside China
Sorry, boomer. CSrankings measures faculty research prowess. Times have changed from the 1970's. Now go outside and yell at the clouds.
I do research in CS. I know the research literature. NE dies not actually publish very much highly cited (== relevant, important) CS research, unlike MIT or CMU or Stanford. NE publish mostly in low-tier workshops and open access (anyone can publish anything) places.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 10:12
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
This list explains why I’ve been hearing about a lot of CS majors transferring from Stanford to UMD.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 09:57
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
CS prof here. CSranking is strictly about faculty' s research output in particular conferences/journals, not at all related to education quality. In this metric, this ranking is very accurate for UMD. UMD has been a top-10 CS research department and graduate program. All the CS faculty is internationally well known.
what would you use for education quality then.
UMD has been near the top of this list for a while
+1. Where can we get rankings of education quality for CS undergraduates?
The closest I can find is measuring the graduates - CodeSignal; https://codesignal.com/university-ranking/2025
The typical comment against the ranking is the sample size is not that large. Merge the results with CSRankings and Throw in percentage of grads employed. This will give you a good/great school.
Just don't use that USNWR thing - it just looks too suspect.
Unless I missed it, UMD doesn’t even make the CodeSignal list.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 09:55
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
CS prof here. CSranking is strictly about faculty' s research output in particular conferences/journals, not at all related to education quality. In this metric, this ranking is very accurate for UMD. UMD has been a top-10 CS research department and graduate program. All the CS faculty is internationally well known.
what would you use for education quality then.
UMD has been near the top of this list for a while
+1. Where can we get rankings of education quality for CS undergraduates?
The closest I can find is measuring the graduates - CodeSignal; https://codesignal.com/university-ranking/2025
The typical comment against the ranking is the sample size is not that large. Merge the results with CSRankings and Throw in percentage of grads employed. This will give you a good/great school.
Just don't use that USNWR thing - it just looks too suspect.
Code signal just released their 2026 rankings.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 09:53
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
I agree this list makes sense except for umd, it shouldnt be there, umd is more like uva a genarally good state school for everything. honestly i would swap it out w/ virginia tech
what are you smoking. UMD is absolutely great for CS, better than UVA or Vtech.
The list is based on research and publication - "CSRankings is a metrics-based ranking of top computer science institutions based on faculty publications at selective conferences". So, the list moves a bit month to month based on publication, but UMD is generally always T10 on that list.
Research is important because it can lead to cutting edge research which means the professors may have leading edge knowledge, and in turn, real world applications.
The most cutting edge research is coming out of private companies not universities. Universities just don’t have the money for compute power…not even close…compared to the research coming out of Meta, Google, OpenAI, etc.
At the absolute leading CS conferences, you now see far more private companies presenting research than universities.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 09:44
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
CS prof here. CSranking is strictly about faculty' s research output in particular conferences/journals, not at all related to education quality. In this metric, this ranking is very accurate for UMD. UMD has been a top-10 CS research department and graduate program. All the CS faculty is internationally well known.
what would you use for education quality then.
UMD has been near the top of this list for a while
+1. Where can we get rankings of education quality for CS undergraduates?
The closest I can find is measuring the graduates - CodeSignal; https://codesignal.com/university-ranking/2025
The typical comment against the ranking is the sample size is not that large. Merge the results with CSRankings and Throw in percentage of grads employed. This will give you a good/great school.
Just don't use that USNWR thing - it just looks too suspect.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 08:30
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
CS prof here. CSranking is strictly about faculty' s research output in particular conferences/journals, not at all related to education quality. In this metric, this ranking is very accurate for UMD. UMD has been a top-10 CS research department and graduate program. All the CS faculty is internationally well known.
what would you use for education quality then.
UMD has been near the top of this list for a while
+1. Where can we get rankings of education quality for CS undergraduates?
Anonymous
04/18/2026 07:18
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Purely looking at No11,
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
it's hard to believe this ranking.
Northeastern was the first university in the U.S. to establish its own College of Computer Science in 1982. CS was typically housed as a department under Colleges of Engineering, Schools of Mathematics, etc. CMU followed suit in 1986, breaking away from its engineering college to establish School of Computer Science, then Cornell, etc.
I’m not suggesting their quality is on par, but Northeastern has a respectable history, tradition, scale, and reputation for CS.
Another surprise for old people.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 06:14
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
I just looked at the CSranking page and if you run it selecting strictly for AI, Maryland ranks fifth nationally. Impressive! The fields for AI include computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, and the web and information retrieval. I knew that UMD has a strong comp sci department, but hadn’t realized how strong.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 05:42
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:This is the rankings from CSrankings. How accurate are they for UMD? According to this, UMD has a top 10 department. I know it is hard to get into and just looking for real world people. Nothing against US News, Forbes etc. Something like Computer Science is so different than sociology.
1.Carnegie Mellon University
2.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.University of California, San Diego
4.Georgia Institute of Technology
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.University of Michigan
7.University of Washington
8.University of California, Berkeley
9.Cornell University
9.University of Maryland, College Park
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
13.Purdue University
14.New York University
14.University of Texas at Austin
16.University of Wisconsin–Madison
17.Princeton University
18.University of Pennsylvania
19.Columbia University
20.University of California, Los Angeles
Google, Squarespace, Occulus VR, Inky. This is a very accurate and well deserved ranking.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 05:41
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:People are still majoring in CS?
Have you heard about AI?
All the AI stuff are coming from CS.
It'll be pretty much the only major that matters.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 23:57
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Purely looking at No11,
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
it's hard to believe this ranking.
+1.
NE is probably the most skilled university at gaming college rankings among all universities located outside China
Sorry, boomer. CSrankings measures faculty research prowess. Times have changed from the 1970's. Now go outside and yell at the clouds.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 23:21
Subject: CSrankings how accurate for UMD?
Anonymous wrote:Purely looking at No11,
11.Northeastern University
11.Stanford University
it's hard to believe this ranking.
Because you are living in the past. Whole new era