New Jersey-based GraduatePrograms.Com recently ranked the graduate program in computer\u00a0science at UCCS as one of the nation\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
In its first-ever rankings, GraduatePrograms.Com rated the UCCS computer\u00a0science program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science as second in the nation, giving the program 9.3 stars out of a possible 10.<\/p>\n
GraduatePrograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms, assigning 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network. A 10 star system (with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the best) is used, as well as verbatim student comments.<\/p>\n
The ranking is based on data s compiled between Sept. 1, 2012 and Sept. 30, 2013 including reviews posted by more than 40,000 students participating in more 1,300 graduate programs nationwide. For a complete list of rankings for individual programs, visit http:\/\/www.graduateprograms.com\/fall-2013-top-graduate-programs\/#sthash.uvMdPTCp.dpuf<\/a>.<\/p>\n The top 20 computer\u00a0science programs were:<\/b><\/p>\n 1. Carnegie Mellon University (9.5 stars)<\/p>\n 2. University of Colorado Colorado Springs (9.3 stars)<\/b><\/p>\n 3. University of Maryland University College (9.1 stars)<\/p>\n 4. Boston University (8.9 stars)<\/p>\n 5. TIE: Arizona State University (8.86 stars)<\/p>\n University of Pennsylvania (8.86 stars)<\/p>\n 7. Southern Methodist University (8.83 stars)<\/p>\n 8. TIE: Princeton University (8.5 stars)<\/p>\n University of Maryland, College Park (8.5 stars)<\/p>\n 10. Stanford University (8.4 stars)<\/p>\n 11. University of California-Berkeley (8.26 stars)<\/p>\n 12. Ohio University-Main Campus (8.2 stars)<\/p>\n 13. University of Virginia (8 stars)<\/p>\n 14. University of Massachusetts-Amherst (7.98 stars)<\/p>\n 15. University at Buffalo, State University of New York (7.96 stars)<\/p>\n 16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (7.88 stars)<\/p>\n 17. Rochester Institute of Technology (7.86 stars)<\/p>\n 18. George Mason University (7.82 stars)<\/p>\n 19. North Carolina A&T State University (7.77 stars)<\/p>\n 20. Georgetown University (7.73 stars)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Jersey-based GraduatePrograms.Com recently ranked the graduate program in computer\u00a0science at UCCS as one of the nation\u2019s best. In its first-ever rankings, GraduatePrograms.Com rated the UCCS computer\u00a0science program in the College of Engineering and Applied (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12813,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}