jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (09/10/89)
I am looking for information on the various computer science programs at universities in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. In the U.S.A. there is a set of schools that have distinguished themselves in this field, eg., MIT, Stanford, UCB, CMU, etc. Which British and German computer science programs stand out from the crowd, and what are their specialities? Thanks for any information you can provide! -- Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu> jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw
mquigley@kean.mun.ca (Martyn Quigley, E3044, x8656) (09/11/89)
In article <37870@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes: > I am looking for information on the various computer science programs at > universities in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. In the > U.S.A. there is a set of schools that have distinguished themselves in > this field, eg., MIT, Stanford, UCB, CMU, etc. Which British and German > computer science programs stand out from the crowd, and what are their > specialities? > > Thanks for any information you can provide! > > -- > Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu> > jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu > ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw I can't help with Germany, and this may not be quite what you are looking for, since it refers only to _research_. The Universities Funding Council (the UK body which gives universities over there their federal funding) recently completed its second survey of research excellence. Each department was assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 as follows: 5 International excellence in many areas, national excellence in all other areas 4 National excellence with some evidence of international excellence 3 National excellence is the majority of areas or limited international excellence 2 National excellence in up to half the areas 1 Little or no national excellence. For computer science, the universities stacked up like this: 5 Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, Sussex, Warwick, Edinburgh, Imperial, UCL 4 Bath, UEA, Essex, Kent, Leeds, Loughborough, York, Glasgow, St Andrews, QUB (Belfast), QMC 3 Bristol, Exeter, Lancaster, Liverpool, UMIST, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Aberystwyth, Swansea, Dundee, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde, Birkbeck, LSE 2 Aston, Birmingham, Bradford, Brunel, Hull, Keele, Leicester, Reading, Surrey, Cardiff, Aberdeen 1 Salford, Lampeter, KQC, RHBNC You would have to dig around a little to find out what the specialities of these places are. Try the University Calendar section in your friendly library. Calendars often (always?) have a list of faculty members, one way to find out what they do! Even if this isn't of any help to you, I hope it is of interest. There are similar ratings for all other subjects, and a complete listing can be seen in the Times Higher Education Supplement of September 1st, 1989 (probably also in your library). Martyn