Google (PageRank) based ranking of CS schools
pages.cs.wisc.edu
pages.cs.wisc.edu
1) Carnegie Mellon University
2) University of Washington
2) Stanford University
4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5) University of California Berkeley
6) Cornell University
7) University of Toronto
8) University of Texas at Austin
8) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10) University of British Columbia
source: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
PS: The linked article is misleading, as "PageRank" is only one of hundreds of signals Google uses for ranking. I originally thought the article's ranking uses the links between schools, but it doesn't. It would be more accurate to simply call it a Google search result ranking.
It seems to be in common usage in Canada (it's what my alma mater called the department) and seemingly at least parts of the UK (as at the University of Glasgow), and is definitely used to mean what is meant by Computer Science in the US, as distinct from Computational Science.
University of Auckland
Victoria University of Wellington
University of Waikato
University of Alberta
Simon Fraser University
Toronto
CMU
University of Glasgow
Oxford
Stanford
Georgia Tech
Berkeley
Newcastle University
UT Austin
UCLA
University of Canterbury
University of Cambridge
Harvard
Caltech
Auckland University of Technology
Stony Brook
My location is probably pretty clear (New Zealand).While on some level it is useful to get a ranking weighted by places that are geographically relevant, it does mean that we will probably all have different lists.
(Any other UMass Amherst CS Alums here?)