ACM Rankings for Graduate CS Programs

Now that I’m gonna study at the CoC in GIT, I can brag about what a great place it is. .Below is a recent study by the ACM . And if the ACM says it you cant challenge it a “bit”- pun intended. Challenging the ACM in CS is like challenging the Royal Society on the structure of the atom.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been ranked 4th in the Nation for graduate programs in an article published in the June 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM. The article by Jie Ren and Richard N. Taylor, “Automatic and Versatile Publications Ranking for Research Institutions and Scholars,” also ranks Georgia Tech 3rd in the nation for software engineering and lists NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing Mary Jean Harrold as the number one software engineering scholar in the world.

The rankings framework employed by the authors uses publications data from 1995 to 2003 to rank computing graduate programs automatically and objectively. One of the most well-known rankings, the U.S. News and World Report ranking includes both objective indicators and subjective polls, and currently ranks the College of Computing graduate programs 11th in the nation (6th in 2007).

Software engineering institutions and scholars were ranked based on data from 2000 to 2004 from journals and conferences that are considered to be the most prestigious in the field: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the International Conference on Software Engineering, and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

The top 5 ranked computing graduate programs are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. University of Maryland, College Park
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. Stanford University

The top 5 ranked software engineering institutions are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Carnegie Mellon University
3. Georgia Institute of Technology
4. University of Maryland, College Park
5. Oregon State University

ACM subscribers can find the complete article here