Adamah Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 I've recently been admitted to the PhD program at U of T, as well as a few American schools. I'm trying to gauge the level of prestige and respect for the Toronto program, which I know is important, and which is apparently difficult to find out for non-American schools. The US News rankings don't list foreign schools. ARWU and QS put Toronto at about #9, but these rankings also put UIUC at #13 and #28, which strikes me as pretty fishy. Right now I'm mainly trying to decide between U Toronto and UMass, so if anyone has advice on the relative strengths of the programs I would appreciate it. Thanks!
jjsakurai Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 Both are excellent schools. I'd put Toronto quite a bit above UMass though, especially for Theory and AI - though UMass is very good in AI too.
binaryco Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 US News & Report has such a list: http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-computer-science Use these rankings with a grain of salt. Some schools are ranked higher or lower within certain sub-fields of CS.
jjsakurai Posted February 21, 2012 Posted February 21, 2012 US News & Report has such a list: http://www.usnews.co...omputer-science Use these rankings with a grain of salt. Some schools are ranked higher or lower within certain sub-fields of CS. Those rankings have U. of Cambridge > Berkeley and Harvard, UCLA, Oxford and Caltech > CMU. Not very incredible, IMO.
newms Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Toronto is excellent in AI and theory, and they (rightfully) compare themselves with a top 10 CS department in the US. UMass would be considered a top 20 US school for CS, although they would probably be in the top 10 for AI. I'm in AI so I'm not too sure about other areas. Both are good admits, you should probably think about which would be the better fit for your research interests. They are also in pretty different locations, big city vs not-so-urban, so you might want to think about that . You might also want to think about how graduates from both schools do on the job market. Congrats and good luck!
spark1989 Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 I Stil don't understand how UCLA has a higher ranking than say, CMU
binaryco Posted February 22, 2012 Posted February 22, 2012 Those rankings have U. of Cambridge > Berkeley and Harvard, UCLA, Oxford and Caltech > CMU. Not very incredible, IMO. Thus why I suggested that you should take the rankings with a grain of salt.
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