A recent
blog entry had statistics on which universities' alumni work in
the top 10 U.S. Computer Science departments (this is not the only
possible measure of alumni's success, but it is one that is relatively
easy to measure and it is probably of interest to incoming graduate
students planning for academic careers). Based on data for Spring 2005
collected by many volunteers, I have a more detailed analysis that takes into
account the discipline faculty got their PhD in, one where I only
counted assistant and associate
professors and one faculty who got
their PhDs since 1995 which are arguably more indicative of recent
trends. There are similar statistics for all faculty, junior faculty, and young faculty in the top 25
departments. It can be argued that Canadian Universities such as
Toronto, Waterloo and UBC are comparable to universities in the
U.S. top 25. There are similar statistics for all faculty, junior faculty, and young faculty in the top 25
U.S. departments plus the three top Canadian departments. Even though
there are many faculty for whom we do not know the university or the discipline their PhD is
in, the data still shows that our CS department is a good choice
for those considering graduate study in the field of computer science.
You can download the scripts and the
raw data I used if you want to tweak it to remedy errors or look
at other statistics.
Many people gave feedback that improved the quality of the
raw data the analyses are based on. I am especially thankful to the
following people who collected or corrected significant amounts of
data: Brian Asen (the top 10 departments), Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Rich
Benton (many corrections), Drago Radev from University of
Michigan, his student Sam Pollack (departments ranked 12-25),
Ed Lazowska from University of Washington, and Anne Condon from
University of British Columbia (top 3 Canadian departments).