China’s Tsinghua University tops multiple global rankings for computer science
Its rise in a field once dominated by US institutions reflects years of Chinese government investment and close ties to the tech sector
For the first time, Tsinghua now leads lists ranging from the widely recognised US News Best Global Universities to CSRankings, a system seen as rigorously academic and historically US-centric within the research community.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University and Peking University followed in third, fourth and fifth place. The top 10 is now evenly split between Asian and US universities, underscoring Asia’s growing strength in the field.
The US is hailed as the birthplace of modern computer science, from the first electronic computers to the creation of the internet. Universities such as MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley set the standards for the field and trained generations of scientists and engineers who built Silicon Valley and the global tech industry.
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Developed and maintained by Emery Berger, a computer science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, CSRankings is entirely metrics-based and transparent, created as an alternative to reputation-driven lists such as the US News & World Report rankings.