A team of student researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of California Santa Cruz have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to construct a university ranking based on papers presented at top conferences on machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and information retrieval between 2020 and 2025.
The procedure was to use a Large Language Model, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, to identify the studies that influenced the presented papers. It is argued that this is a new kind of ranking that evaluates the meaningful impact of computer science research.
The project is still in its early stages and comments in X.com have warned about LLM “hallucinations” and duplication of data.
The upper levels of this ranking are dominated by the USA and China, and it is noticeable that that the traditional elite schools, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, perform relatively poorly.
India, with 36 ranked universities and Israel with 8, are among the rising powers of computer science research. The most interesting result is Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates, taking the 19th place.
The top five universities are:
1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2. Stanford University, USA
3. University of California Berkeley, USA
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
5. Tsinghua University, China.
Source:
Research Impact Rankings