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We offer a ranking of the best universities with the study of computer science and information systems in the USA according to the QS World University Rankings.
Education in the field of computer science in the United States is one of the most prestigious in the world, for foreign students a diploma in computer science opens up the opportunity to study and work abroad.
Computer science and information systems is a vast field with many sub-disciplines, applications that cover almost all industries: the study of computer technology, hardware and software. The range of sub-disciplines covers:
- network
- data systems
- game development
- telecommunications
- artificial Intelligence
- robotics
- modeling
- statistics
- cryptography
- computational physics
- chemistry.
A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems can be obtained in prestigious educational institutions in the United States, more rigorous specialization is carried out at the master's level.
There are many benefits for international students wishing to study computer science in the United States:
- A computer science degree from an American institution is in demand among employers
- 7 of the top 10 computer science schools (according to US News and World Report) are in the United States
- Graduates of computer science programs in the United States are ranked 4 of the top 10 on the National Association of Colleges and Employers' list of the highest earning college graduates in the list of highest paying majors in college.
Best computer science & information systems universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | Harvard University |
| 6 | Princeton University |
| 7 | Cornell University |
| 8 | University of Washington |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | New York University (NYU) |
| 12 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 13 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 14 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 15 | Yale University |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 17 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 18 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 19 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 20 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 21 | University of Chicago |
| 22 | University of Southern California |
| 23 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 24 | Purdue University |
| 25 | Duke University |
| 26 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 28 | Boston University |
| 29 | University of California, Irvine |
| 30 | Brown University |
| 31 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 32 | Texas A&M University |
| 33 | Northwestern University |
| 34 | Arizona State University |
| 35 | Michigan State University |
| 36 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 37 | Northeastern University |
| 38 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 39 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) |
| 40 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 41 | The Ohio State University |
| 42 | University of Florida |
| 43 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 44 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 45 | North Carolina State University |
| 46 | Rice University |
| 47 | University of California, Davis |
| 48 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 49 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 50 | University of Virginia |
