[Rickasaurus]

Just because Psychology and Philosophy majors bring in most of the school's money doesn't mean the Comp-Sci dept isn't fantastic.

According to Google, it's third in the country. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/rank.html

[Locke1689]

That's the worst ranking that I can possibly think of. It doesn't even use Google Scholar, which may introduce an interesting metric, like cited papers from universities.

Also, how do people not know this already? The results number in Google is wrong. It's just an inaccurate estimate designed to give people the "wow" factor when you search in Google.

[Rickasaurus]

By all other measures it's still a very good school for Comp-Sci, especially considering that it's a public university with somewhat reasonable tuition. Also, while the general acceptance rate is high, you do need a 3.5 GPA to get into the Comp-Sci program.

For example, take a look this publication based ranking: http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-science-admissions/79645...

[Locke1689]

Oh, I'm not disputing that Amherst is a good school, just pointing out that that metric is a stupid way to rank schools.