Update 2017: Top 5 Computer Science Schools in the World

Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers. 
                        A computer science degree from a top university can help graduates land their dream job at companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook.Let's have a look:



Most reputable source( info): QS World University Rankings 2017. Survey is
 based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact.

     1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

                         
                                                      Motto: Mind and Hand
                                  

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of the world's most prestigious universities.

                         According to The Guardian "a survey of living MIT alumni found that they have formed 25,800 companies, employing more than three million people including about a quarter of the workforce of Silicon Valley."

                      

Notable Alumni:

Andrew James Viterbi
Co-founder of Qualcomm Inc.

      

Robert Norton Noyce
co-founder of Intel Corp.

     

                             2. Stanford University

                                               Motto: The wind of freedom blows
                                          
                                           

Stanford University is a private research universityin Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco.

                          Stanford faculty and alumni have founded a large number of companies that produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world.It is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires, 17 astronauts, and 20 Turing Award laureates.

Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google Inc.

Notable Alumni:

                   

             

Larry Page
Co-founder of Google Inc.

                      3.Carnegie Mellon University

       Motto: " My heart is in my work" -- Andrew Carnegio( founder of Carnegie Technical Schools)

                                               

                                 

Andrew Carnegio

Carnegie Mellon University  is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University.

                                  It is home to the world’s first degree-granting Robotics and Drama programs,as well as one of the first Computer Science departments.

                                 

 Past and present faculty and alumni include 20 Nobel Prize Laureates ,12 Turing Award winners, 22 Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,19 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 72 Members of the National Academies, 114 Emmy Award Winners, 44 Tony Award laureates and 7 Academy Award Winners.

Notable Alumni:

Charles Geschke
Co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.

James Gosling
Inventor of java

   4. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 

Motto: Let there be light

 University of California, Berkeley, (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, Cal Berkeley, and California)^[7] is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system

and is ranked as one of the world's leading research universities and the top public university in the United States.

Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers include 91 Nobel laureates 

(including 33 alumni). They have also won 9 Wolf Prizes, 23 Turing Awards , 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 117 Olympic gold medals(51 silver and 39 bronze).

Notable Alumni:                                                                               

Eric Emerson Schmidt

Executive chaiman of

Alphabet Inc.

                                                           

Alphabet Inc is the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.

Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple Inc.

                        5. University of Cambridge

                                       Motto: From here, light and sacred draughts

                                                            

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)^{[note 1]} is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's third-oldest surviving university.

                             Cambridge is ranked the world's fourth best university by three ranking tables and no other institution in the world ranks in the top 10 for as many subjects.

                               Ninety-five Nobel laureates, fifteen British prime ministers and ten Fields medalists have been affiliated with Cambridge as students, faculty or alumni.

Nathan Paul Myhrvold
CTO at Microsoft

Notable Alumni:

Ray Milton Dolby
Founder of  Dolby Labs