China’s Tsinghua named world’s best university for computer science

The Beijing-based university earned an ideal topic rating of 100 within the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities Subject Rankings for computer science.

It additionally ranked first in three of the rating’s 12 efficiency indicators: convention publications, whole citations, and the variety of publications among the many world’s high 10% most-cited papers.

The rating, launched in June, evaluated 1,500 universities that met a minimal threshold of 250 analysis papers printed between 2020 and 2024.

Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Photo courtesy of Tsinghua

Asian universities dominated the highest of the rankings, taking eight of the highest 10 locations. Mainland China accounted for 4 establishments, with Peking University and Zhejiang University rating second and third.

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore positioned fourth and sixth, whereas Hong Kong’s Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ranked seventh and tenth.

Stanford University within the U.S. and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have been the one non-Asian establishments within the high 10.

The University of Oxford, ranked twenty seventh, was the highest-placed university from the U.Okay.

Across the highest 30, Asian universities occupied 21 locations, in contrast with six for the U.S. and three for Europe.

World’s high 10 universities for computer science in 2026-2027

Beyond computer science, Tsinghua ranked sixth globally and first in Asia within the general U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings.

It additionally ranked first globally in 10 of U.S. News’ 51 educational topics, together with synthetic intelligence, engineering and chemistry.