May 18, 2005
Where CS faculty got their degrees, again
http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/

Cristian Estan (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~estan/) has posted a comprehensive study (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~estan/alumnistatistics/) of where faculty in top-10 CS faculty get their degrees, significantly expanding and refining the chart than John Iacono and I threw together. Christian's study includes a chart that excludes full professors, which may give a better picture of recent activity. Most notably, Cristian's xxxxs and raw data are available, so you can split up the data in other ways if you like. Well done!

One of my colleagues at UIUC broke the news to me about a month ago:

Your table is famous! I was up at UW-Madison giving a talk, and the moment I mentioned the table and your name, everyone was laughing.

Heh. Yeah. Great.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~estan/alumnistatistics/
A recent blog entry (http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2004/12/where_cs_facult.html) had statistics on which universities' alumni work in the top 10 U.S. Computer Science departments (this is not the only possible measure of alumni's success, but it is one that is relatively easy to measure and it is probably of interest to incoming graduate students planning for academic careers). Even though the numbers seem to say that the our alumni do better than those from UIUC, grad school applicants with offers from both departments seem to still prefer UIUC. So with the help of raw data based on departmental web pages, collected by Brian Asen in March 2005 and some older data from Remzi, I did a more detailed analysis that takes into account the discipline faculty got their PhD in and one where I only counted assistant and associate professors which is arguably more indicative of recent trends. Even though there are many faculty for whom we do not know the university or the discipline their PhD is in, the data still shows that our CS department is a good choice for those considering graduate study in the field of computer science. You can download the xxxxs and the raw data I used if you want to tweak it to remedy errors or look at other statistics.

Many people sent corrections and details to extend the incomplete original data. I thank them all!

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http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~estan/alumnistatistics/Alumni_matrix.html

Matrix of universities by the number of alumni active in top 10 CS departments

Interpretation of numbers: total number of alumni = number of alumni with PhDs in CS or equivalents + number of alumni whose PhD in in an unknown field + number of alumni with PhDs in something other than CS

Ph.D. from Total alumni MIT Stanford Berkeley CMU UIUC Cornell U.T. Austin Washington Princeton Wisconsin Caltech
MIT 64=37+8+19 19 6 7 8 2 6 5 3 4 0 4
Berkeley 55=47+3+5 9 7 4 8 2 3 4 4 3 9 2
Stanford 52=32+6+14 11 7 5 4 4 3 2 7 7 2 0
CMU 35=29+4+2 3 5 6 4 3 3 1 6 2 2 0
Cornell 25=17+7+1 1 3 0 2 1 4 5 2 1 5 1
Harvard 16=3+5+8 4 2 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 0
Wisconsin 15=12+2+1 0 1 2 1 5 3 1 1 0 1 0
UIUC 10=5+0+5 0 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 1 2 0
Washington 10=5+4+1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 0
Caltech 9=5+4+0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 2
Princeton 9=5+2+2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
Toronto 9=5+3+1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 0 0 0
Michigan 7=2+3+2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 0
UCLA 7=4+0+3 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
Yale 7=7+0+0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0
U.T. Austin 5=2+3+0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0
Waterloo 5=4+1+0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Pennsylvania 4=3+1+0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
SUNY Stony Brook 4=3+1+0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
UCSD 4=3+0+1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
University of Chicago 4=2+0+2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
Columbia 3=1+1+1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Edinburgh 3=1+2+0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Georgia Tech 3=3+0+0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hebrew University 3=0+3+0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
Maryland 3=2+0+1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
Tel Aviv 3=1+2+0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Weizmann Institute 3=1+2+0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
Amherst 2=2+0+0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Colorado 2=2+0+0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Minnesota 2=2+0+0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Carolina 2=2+0+0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Oxford 2=0+0+2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Polytechnic Institute Grenoble 2=1+1+0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Purdue 2=0+2+0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Rice 2=2+0+0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
U.C. Irvine 2=2+0+0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
University of Bonn 2=2+0+0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
University of Grenoble 2=2+0+0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
University of Queensland 2=1+1+0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0