Located in Seattle, the University of Washington is a public institution with more than 41,000 undergraduate and graduate students. In 2010, "U.S. News and World Report" ranked the university's computer science programs seventh among all similar programs in the United States. The Computer Science and Engineering department is home to approximately 150 graduate students and grants around 15 doctoral degrees annually. Of all the applicants the Department receives each year, approximately 10 percent receive admission, according to the college's website. Among the possible specialties for Ph.D. students are computer architecture, programming, operation systems, databases, networking, graphics, artificial intelligence, software engineering and computational biology. Fellowships and assistantships are available to help students off-set the cost of tuition.
University of Washington
AC101 Paul G. Allen Center
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-1695
cs.washington.edu
Founded in 1912, Rice University is a private, nonsectarian school in Houston, Texas with less than 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students. "U.S. News and World Report" ranked the college 20th in computer science in 2010. To receive admission to the university's Ph.D. program in computer science, a master's degree is not necessary; students with only a bachelor's can complete the Master of Science curriculum and research while earning their doctorate. Research areas include computer algorithms, robotics and artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, graphics and geometric design, programming languages, software design, systems and compiling. Most graduate students at Rice qualify for assistantships and fellowships.
Rice University
PO Box 1892
MS 132
Houston, TX 77251
713-348-4834
compsci.rice.edu
A private, Ivy League college, Princeton University received the eighth-place ranking among all computer sciences in the United States from "U.S. News and World Report" in 2010. With less than 7,500 undergraduates and graduate students, the university is in Princeton, New Jersey, a suburban area approximately 50 miles south of New York City. The computer science doctorate program requires only a bachelor's degree for admission. The university prefers applicants with a strong undergraduate background in engineering, physical science or mathematics, but the school will accept students with any undergraduate major. Students accepted to the program can choose to study bioinformatics and computational biology, network systems, machine learning and computational perception, programming and information security, computer science theory or sound and graphics. Typically, all Ph.D. students in the Department of Computer Science receive at least partial funding in the form of assistantships and fellowships.
Princeton University
35 Olden St.
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-5387
cs.princeton.edu