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Best Computer Science

US News 2026 undergraduate CS ranking. Many of these schools have separate (lower) admit rates for CS.

Top entries are curated; the rest are auto-extended by selectivity.

#SchoolLocation Accept SAT mid-50% ACT mid-50% Undergrads Avg Class Size Type
#1 MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts 4.5% 1530-1580 35-36 4,600 ~44 est. private View
#2 Stanford Stanford, California 3.9% 1500-1580 33-35 7,800 ~13 est. private View
#3 Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 11.0% 1490-1560 33-35 7,500 ~11 est. private View
#4 UC Berkeley Berkeley, California 11.5% 1340-1530 30-35 33,000 ~40 est. public View
#5 Cornell Ithaca, New York 7.3% 1470-1550 33-35 15,700 ~31 est. private View
#6 Georgia Tech Atlanta, Georgia 16.0% 1430-1530 32-35 18,000 ~42 est. public View
#7 Princeton Princeton, New Jersey 4.7% 1510-1570 34-35 5,500 ~11 est. private View
#8 Caltech Pasadena, California 2.7% 1530-1580 35-36 1,000 ~8 est. private View
#9 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 43.0% 1290-1470 27-33 35,000 ~44 est. public View
#10 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 29.0% 1240-1460 27-33 40,000 ~40 est. public View
#11 UCLA Los Angeles, California 8.6% 1370-1540 31-35 33,000 ~44 est. public View
#12 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 17.7% 1370-1530 31-34 33,000 ~24 est. public View
#13 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 43.0% 1240-1430 27-33 36,000 ~44 est. public View
#14 University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 49.0% 1310-1450 27-32 35,000 ~40 est. public View
#15 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 45.0% 1290-1470 29-33 30,000 ~37 est. public View
#16 Columbia New York, New York 3.9% 1490-1570 33-35 8,800 ~46 est. private View
#17 Harvard Cambridge, Massachusetts 3.6% 1500-1580 34-36 7,200 ~15 est. private View
#18 UPenn Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5.4% 1490-1560 33-35 10,300 ~18 est. private View
#19 Brown Providence, Rhode Island 5.4% 1500-1570 34-35 7,300 ~13 est. private View
#20 University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 4.6% 1510-1580 34-35 7,500 ~20 est. private View
#21 Yale New Haven, Connecticut 3.7% 1500-1570 33-35 6,500 ~11 est. private View
#22 Duke Durham, North Carolina 5.1% 1490-1570 33-35 6,700 ~11 est. private View
#23 Rice Houston, Texas 7.7% 1490-1560 34-35 4,500 ~13 est. private View
#24 Johns Hopkins Baltimore, Maryland 6.4% 1500-1560 33-35 5,300 ~13 est. private View
#25 USC Los Angeles, California 9.0% 1450-1530 32-35 21,000 ~20 est. private View
#26 NYU New York, New York 8.0% 1450-1540 32-34 29,000 ~24 est. private View
#27 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia 56.0% 1240-1430 27-32 30,000 ~37 est. public View
#28 Case Western Cleveland, Ohio 27.0% 1380-1520 31-34 6,000 ~20 est. private View
#29 Santa Clara Santa Clara, California 49.0% 1330-1470 30-33 5,800 ~24 est. private View
#30 San Jose State San Jose, California 70.0% 1100-1330 21-29 29,000 ~55 est. public View
#31 Stevens Institute Hoboken, New Jersey 47.0% 1380-1510 31-33 4,000 ~24 est. private View
#32 Drexel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 77.0% 1180-1380 25-31 14,000 ~20 est. private View
#33 WPI Worcester, Massachusetts 61.0% 1310-1470 30-33 5,300 ~29 est. private View
#34 RPI Troy, New York 66.0% 1300-1480 29-33 6,000 ~31 est. private View
#35 Binghamton University Binghamton, New York 40.0% 1310-1450 29-32 14,000 ~40 est. public View
#36 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, California 30.0% 1280-1450 27-32 22,000 ~42 est. public View
#37 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 70.0% 1280-1450 26-32 36,000 ~37 est. public View
#39 George Mason Fairfax, Virginia 89.0% 1130-1330 24-30 27,000 ~35 est. public View
#40 Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 48.0% 1240-1430 27-32 18,000 ~42 est. public View
#41 Rutgers New Brunswick, New Jersey 65.0% 1210-1440 26-32 36,000 ~26 est. public View
#42 University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 66.0% 1180-1370 26-31 19,000 ~35 est. public View
#43 Tufts Medford, Massachusetts 9.5% 1450-1540 33-35 6,700 ~22 est. private View
#44 Penn State University Park, Pennsylvania 54.0% 1240-1410 27-32 40,000 ~35 est. public View
#45 University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut 54.0% 1230-1410 27-32 23,000 ~37 est. public View
#46 University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 64.0% 1180-1360 25-31 27,000 ~35 est. public View
#47 Dartmouth Hanover, New Hampshire 5.4% 1490-1560 33-35 4,500 ~15 est. private View
#48 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7.0% 1490-1560 33-35 8,500 ~35 est. private View
#49 Swarthmore Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 7.2% 1430-1550 33-35 1,700 ~15 est. private View
#50 Pomona Claremont, California 7.5% 1460-1560 33-35 1,700 ~15 est. private View
#51 Colby Waterville, Maine 8.0% 1410-1530 32-34 2,200 ~20 est. private View
#52 Northeastern Boston, Massachusetts 5.5% 1430-1540 33-35 16,000 ~35 est. private View
#53 Harvey Mudd Claremont, California 8.0% 1490-1570 33-35 900 ~18 est. private View
#54 Grinnell Grinnell, Iowa 9.0% 1430-1540 32-34 1,700 ~20 est. private View
#55 Cooper Union New York, New York 11.0% 1340-1500 30-34 900 ~18 est. private View
#56 Wellesley Wellesley, Massachusetts 13.0% 1410-1540 32-34 2,400 ~15 est. private View
#57 Haverford Haverford, Pennsylvania 14.0% 1410-1530 32-34 1,400 ~18 est. private View
#58 UVA Charlottesville, Virginia 16.6% 1410-1520 32-35 17,500 ~33 est. public View
#59 Carleton Northfield, Minnesota 17.0% 1410-1540 32-34 2,000 ~18 est. private View
#60 Olin College Needham, Massachusetts 18.0% 1480-1560 33-35 400 ~20 est. private View
#61 UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 16.7% 1370-1500 30-33 19,000 ~33 est. public View
#62 Lehigh Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 31.0% 1340-1480 30-33 5,500 ~22 est. private View
#63 Brandeis Waltham, Massachusetts 39.0% 1380-1510 30-34 3,700 ~22 est. private View
#64 Purdue West Lafayette, Indiana 50.0% 1190-1430 25-33 37,000 ~37 est. public View
#65 University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 56.0% 0-0 0-0 11,000 ~42 est. public View
#66 Morehouse Atlanta, Georgia 58.0% 1010-1230 19-24 2,200 ~31 est. private View
#67 Rose-Hulman Terre Haute, Indiana 77.0% 1260-1430 28-32 2,200 ~26 est. private View
#68 University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 87.0% 1100-1330 22-29 24,000 ~51 est. public View
#69 Northeastern Illinois Chicago, Illinois 88.0% 1000-1190 18-24 7,000 ~20 est. public View