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From: mquigley@kean.mun.ca (Martyn Quigley, E3044, x8656)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer Science Programs in Britain and Germany
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Date: 11 Sep 89 10:10:29 GMT
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In article <37870@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
> I am looking for information on the various computer science programs at
> universities in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany.  In the
> U.S.A. there is a set of schools that have distinguished themselves in
> this field, eg., MIT, Stanford, UCB, CMU, etc.  Which British and German
> computer science programs stand out from the crowd, and what are their
> specialities?
> 
> Thanks for any information you can provide!
> 
> --
> Joe Wells <jbw@bucsf.bu.edu>
> jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu
> ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw

I can't help with Germany, and this may not be quite what you are 
looking for, since it refers only to _research_.

The Universities Funding Council (the UK body which gives universities 
over there their federal funding) recently completed its second survey 
of research excellence.  Each department was assessed on a scale of 1 
to 5 as follows:

	5	International excellence in many areas, national
		excellence in all other areas
	4	National excellence with some evidence of international
		excellence
	3	National excellence is the majority of areas or
		limited international excellence
	2	National excellence in up to half the areas
	1	Little or no national excellence.

For computer science, the universities stacked up like this:

	5	Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, Sussex,
		Warwick, Edinburgh, Imperial, UCL
	4	Bath, UEA, Essex, Kent, Leeds, Loughborough, York,
		Glasgow, St Andrews, QUB (Belfast), QMC
	3	Bristol, Exeter, Lancaster, Liverpool, UMIST,
		Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Aberystwyth,
		Swansea, Dundee, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde,
		Birkbeck, LSE
	2	Aston, Birmingham, Bradford, Brunel, Hull, Keele,
		Leicester, Reading, Surrey, Cardiff, Aberdeen
	1	Salford, Lampeter, KQC, RHBNC

You would have to dig around a little to find out what the 
specialities of these places are.  Try the University Calendar section 
in your friendly library.  Calendars often (always?) have a list of 
faculty members, one way to find out what they do!

Even if this isn't of any help to you, I hope it is of interest.  
There are similar ratings for all other subjects, and a complete 
listing can be seen in the Times Higher Education Supplement of 
September 1st, 1989 (probably also in your library).

								Martyn