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UWaterloo Among Computer Science Giants in 2024 QS Rankings

The University of Waterloo has been ranked in the top-25 tech universities in the world. Find out how it compares to other computer science schools.

The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo) has once again earned a top-25 position in computer science, as recognized by the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. 

Climbing one spot to #21 this year, UWaterloo is setting the pace for global tech, edging out giants like Columbia and NYU, and breathing down the necks of Cornell and Princeton.  

According to the rankings, it’s also the #2 computer science school in Canada, second only to fellow Toronto-Waterloo Corridor school, the University of Toronto. 

Here are this year’s top-25 universities for Computer Science & Information Systems:

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 
  2. Carnegie Mellon University 
  3. Stanford University 
  4. University of Oxford 
  5. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 
  6. National University of Singapore (NUS) 
  7. Harvard University 
  8. University of Cambridge 
  9. ETH Zurich 
  10. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) 
  11. EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 
  12. Tsinghua University 
  13. University of Toronto 
  14. Princeton University 
  15. Peking University 
  16. Imperial College London 
  17. Cornell University 
  18. University of Washington 
  19. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
  20. The University of Edinburgh 
  21. University of Waterloo 
  22. University College London (UCL) 
  23. Columbia University 
  24. New York University (NYU) 
  25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

The winning streak continues

Computer Science isn’t the only win for Waterloo. The university also scored highly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (#28, up one spot from 2023) and Mathematics (#39, up four spots from 2023), edging out some impressive Ivy League names.  

The University of Waterloo is routinely lauded as one of Canada’s top engineering schools – and one of the largest, with over 10,000 students enrolled. The breadth and depth of talent the university produces makes Waterloo an attractive location for companies considering international expansion.  

Learn five more astounding facts about the UWaterloo in this article.

About the QS World University Rankings

QS is the world’s largest international higher education network. It ranks the world’s top universities on 55 subjects based on factors such as academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, H-Index and International Research Network.  

Find the full rankings on the QS website.

Read more about the QS Rankings from the University of Waterloo.

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