Global higher education research company QS Quacquarelli Symonds just published its 11th annual rankings of the best global colleges and universities for 51 different subjects.
QS publishes several subject rankings that fall under engineering and technology, including the best schools for computer science and information systems. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked at the top of the computer science and information systems ranking, same as last year.
To create these subject rankings, QS looks at academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, and h-index to calculate an overall score for a school in each subject ranking. QS describes the h-index as an index that is "based on the set of the academic's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications."
Weights for the four metrics used to develop the rankings varied by subject. The full methodology can be found on QS' website.
The following are the top 20 US schools from the computer science and information systems ranking, including where they placed on the overall list. All the various subject rankings and the full computer science and information systems table can be found on QS' website.