Recently, I detect Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (http://www.ttic.edu/). That is actually an independent institute located in the campus of University of Chicago and solely offers Computer Science(specially AI) graduate program. They acclaim that compete(or will compete!) with top-ten universities in US as stated in their website:
Actually I didn't find nearly anything about the quality of the institute and because of their absence in all of the ranking systems it is so hard for me to evaluate them. I just found some limited information about them, for example some of their alumnus are now assistant professors in UIUC and Cornell.
I will be appreciate if you leave your comments about the university.Specially, do you think it is worth it to leave an offer UCSD or USC or some milder offers such as UCI and going to TTIC?