There are two college ranking systems - U.S. News and CS Rankings.
U.S. News uses a closed survey-based approach while CS Rankings uses a transparent metrics-based approach:
“It weighs departments by their presence at the most prestigious publication venues. This approach is intended to be both incentive-aligned (faculty already aim to publish at top venues) and difficult to game, since publishing in such conferences is difficult. It is admittedly bean-counting, but its intent is to “count the right beans.” It is also entirely transparent; all code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/emeryberger/CSRankings under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (note: this means you may not distribute anything built from CSrankings’ code or data).”
Both systems show a rise of Chinese institutions into the top ten, however CS Rankings’ metrics-based system gives a more accurate picture.
If you go to the CS Rankings website and delete all areas except AI (Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, Machine learning, Natural language processing, The Web & information retrieval), China dominates, and Carnegie Mellon drops from #2 to #12.
The U.S. still has a strong presence in the top ten for Computer Science, but the trend of Chinese universities displacing American universities on the global stage is going to be hard to stop, especially with the current Administration in place.
While our military capabilities are second to none, that can’t be our sole focus. We are now seeing the results of at least two generations of poor choices when it comes to the education of our children and not making STEM a priority by any means necessary.