Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best University in Europe for MS in C...
by Recursing on Saturday October 19, 2019 @09:05AM
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How can I know if there is a "strong faculty in my area of interest"?
H-index on google scholar?
Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best University in Europe for MS in C...
by ploika on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:06PM
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University Rankings are like the Body Mass Index of figuring out how good a university is - not entirely useless, but not to be used as anything more than a very rough gauge of what's going on.
That said, QS break down their (global) rankings by subject. Below is the link for computer science.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/universi...
There's no easy way of telling how much better the nth-ranked university really is compared to the (n+m)th-ranked one, but it could be informative nonetheless.
Re:Ask HN: What Is the Best University in Europe for MS in C...
by nextos on Saturday October 19, 2019 @12:41PM
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That's a decent starting point, especially in CS.
If you wanna disclose your area of interest I may be able to point you to some departments. Contact information is in my profile, if you prefer email.
I've been both at Cambridge and Oxford. I think Oxford has had a much better CS department for a number of years. A lot of Cambridge faculty was hired by Microsoft Research long ago and they never recovered. Google Brain has also drained a lot of their talent lately, mostly from the Engineering Department.
Oxford has tons of famous people now: Luca Cardelli, Marta Kwiatkowska (formal methods), Yee Whye Teh (Bayesian non parametrics), Dan Olteanu (database systems) and others.
As for mainland Europe, I agree ETH and EPFL are probably among the top. I would also consider French CS, which is super good. Any French department associated with an INRIA in the topic you are interested in might be a great choice. In particular, ENS Paris might rival with ETH or EPFL in terms of quality.
Lots of smaller Scandinavian, German and Belgian / Dutch unies might be a great choice too. E.g. UCL Louvain, DTU, etc. It really depends on what you wanna do.