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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 | Stanford University |
| 3 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | Harvard University |
| 6 | Princeton University |
| 7 | Cornell University |
| 8 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 9 | Yale University |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | New York University (NYU) |
| 12 | University of Washington |
| 13 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 14 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 15 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 16 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 17 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 18 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 19 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 20 | University of Chicago |
| 21 | Purdue University |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 23 | University of Southern California |
| 24 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 25 | Duke University |
| 26 | Boston University |
| 27 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 28 | Arizona State University |
| 29 | Brown University |
| 30 | Northwestern University |
| 31 | University of California, Irvine |
| 32 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) |
| 33 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 34 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 35 | Texas A&M University |
| 36 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 37 | Northeastern University |
| 38 | Michigan State University |
| 39 | University of Florida |
| 40 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 41 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 42 | The Ohio State University |
| 43 | University of California, Davis |
| 44 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 45 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 46 | University of Virginia |
| 47 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 48 | Rice University |
| 49 | Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) |
| 50 | Stony Brook University, State University of New York |
