Computer Science Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Computer Science topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Computer Science currently has 53 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 179,177 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -1.9%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Computer Science
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 66.3 | 24,835 | 253,330 | -18.7% |
| #2 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 65.8 | 18,983 | 36,781 | 12.6% |
| #3 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain | 60.1 | 7,807 | 29,120 | 13.1% |
| #4 | TU Wien | Austria | 59.9 | 7,688 | 32,127 | 9.7% |
| #5 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 59.5 | 8,509 | 35,677 | -14.3% |
| #6 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 58.9 | 4,273 | 79,313 | 80.1% |
| #7 | Beihang University | China | 57.1 | 4,731 | 59,513 | 17.9% |
| #8 | Wuhan University | China | 56.9 | 5,575 | 90,837 | -13.0% |
| #9 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 56.6 | 5,193 | 20,779 | -8.8% |
| #10 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 56.5 | 4,670 | 83,893 | 5.2% |
| #11 | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 56.3 | 4,608 | 90,353 | 1.9% |
| #12 | Tsinghua University | China | 56.0 | 4,263 | 138,968 | 7.8% |
| #13 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | United States | 55.2 | 3,880 | 62,089 | 3.1% |
| #14 | Peking University | China | 54.9 | 4,194 | 163,127 | -17.4% |
| #15 | University of Turku | Finland | 54.7 | 3,784 | 33,313 | -5.2% |
| #16 | Charles University | Czechia | 53.7 | 2,972 | 46,059 | 8.6% |
| #17 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | 53.6 | 3,854 | 31,301 | -36.6% |
| #18 | Southeast University | China | 53.5 | 2,976 | 69,995 | 3.8% |
| #19 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 53.2 | 3,336 | 42,304 | -22.7% |
| #20 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 53.0 | 3,102 | 73,722 | -16.5% |
| #21 | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Germany | 52.6 | 3,513 | 84,444 | -45.7% |
| #22 | Beijing Institute of Technology | China | 51.4 | 2,067 | 62,349 | 9.6% |
| #23 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 51.4 | 2,260 | 44,707 | -5.2% |
| #24 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 51.3 | 2,276 | 54,334 | -9.2% |
| #25 | Australian National University | Australia | 51.3 | 2,407 | 40,081 | -18.4% |
| #26 | Universität Innsbruck | Austria | 51.1 | 1,754 | 36,528 | 28.0% |
| #27 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 51.0 | 2,358 | 40,709 | -22.2% |
| #28 | Universidad de Sevilla | Spain | 50.7 | 2,010 | 39,941 | -4.2% |
| #29 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 50.0 | 1,841 | 49,436 | -6.2% |
| #30 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 49.8 | 1,523 | 88,325 | 17.2% |
| #31 | Philipps University of Marburg | Germany | 49.7 | 1,372 | 21,032 | 31.8% |
| #32 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 49.6 | 1,563 | 27,145 | 9.1% |
| #33 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 49.4 | 1,689 | 67,893 | -8.9% |
| #34 | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Brazil | 49.2 | 1,709 | 35,822 | -15.8% |
| #35 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Spain | 48.8 | 1,549 | 50,020 | -8.8% |
| #36 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 48.7 | 1,589 | 75,941 | -16.4% |
| #37 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | 47.6 | 1,228 | 40,548 | -3.5% |
| #38 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 47.3 | 1,282 | 46,058 | -15.8% |
| #39 | Université de Lille | France | 47.2 | 1,337 | 39,229 | -25.1% |
| #40 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain | 47.1 | 1,178 | 43,318 | -7.8% |
| #41 | Leipzig University | Germany | 47.1 | 1,137 | 48,827 | -2.7% |
| #42 | University of Pisa | Italy | 47.0 | 1,136 | 35,891 | -4.1% |
| #43 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | 47.0 | 1,229 | 27,286 | -16.9% |
| #44 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 46.9 | 1,200 | 40,536 | -15.5% |
| #45 | Macquarie University | Australia | 46.6 | 1,134 | 31,457 | -15.7% |
| #46 | University of the Basque Country | Spain | 46.5 | 1,078 | 29,999 | -8.4% |
| #47 | University of Tehran | Iran | 46.2 | 1,144 | 37,689 | -25.9% |
| #48 | University of Stuttgart | Germany | 45.8 | 1,240 | 32,906 | -48.8% |
| #49 | University of York | United Kingdom | 45.1 | 887 | 26,944 | -12.3% |
| #50 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | 45.0 | 902 | 32,985 | -16.9% |
| #51 | Queen's University | Canada | 44.2 | 790 | 28,079 | -15.9% |
| #52 | University of Connecticut | United States | 44.1 | 811 | 24,293 | -24.0% |
| #53 | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | 44.0 | 751 | 27,724 | -13.6% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.