schools for machine learning

[sisyphus1]

i know the top schools in machine learning are CMU, Cornell, Stanford, MIT, but what are some other schools who have decent machine learning departments (who i believe are either in stats or computer science departments atmost unis)?

i've gotten a serious interest in ML but i have virtually no shot at the top programs, so im trying to gauge what the next 'tier' schools are.

[SenhorJose]

I'm also interested in ML, but from the stats (rather than computer science) side of things.

Some statistics departments which have at least a few people in learning are (in some rough ordering based on NRC rankings or competitiveness or what have you):

Stanford

Berkeley

Michigan

CMU

Columbia

Purdue

Minnesota

Ohio State

There are many others, I'm sure. But again, these are strictly statistics departments that I'm considering, with PhD programs that cover a lot of traditional statistical theory/applications other than learning. Hope this helps, though

[econ_to_stats]

I'm also interesting in machine learning. Thanks for the info.