CSStipendRankings (https://csstipendrankings.org) is a stipend-based ranking of top-paying computer science departments in the United States, inspired by CSRankings. We may expand to include other countries in the future, and we welcome your contributions!
We hope you find CSStipendRankings useful towards getting your institution to pay a living wage.
First of all, thank you for your interest in contributing to CSStipendRankings! We welcome contributions from everyone. Please take a moment to review this document in order to make the contribution process easy and effective for everyone involved.
The fastest way to add or update the data is by editing stipend-us.csv and submit a pull request. The stipend data are stored as rows in stipend-us.csv in the format of
"<Institution Name (Optional Notes)>", <Annual Stipend Amount (Pre-Qualification) ($)>, <Annual Stipend Amount (Post-Qualification) ($)>,<Annual Local Living Wage ($)>, <Annual Out-of-pocket Fees (and Health Insurance) Charged by University ($)>, <Public or Private>, <Summer Funding Guarantee>
Please place the institution name within "'s. Use the name however it appears on CSRankings.org.
All stipend and cost listed should be for 12 months. Annual stipend amount is the minimal amount, pre-tax, for at least 80% of students (including international students), without considering additional income source (e.g., from internship).
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To add a new institution, please add a new row to the
stipend-us.csv; to update the an existing institution, please update the corresponding row in thestipend-us.csvaccordingly. -
For the annual local living wage, please refer to the MIT Living Wage Calculator and use the number in
Typical Expenses -> Required annual income before taxes -> 1 Adult & 0 Childrenas the annual local living wage. -
Submit a pull request with your updates. In the pull request, please mention the source of the stipend data (e.g., your own data point, a link to an official website, etc.) and add a link to the MIT Living Wage Calculator. We will review your pull request and merge it if everything looks good.
Alternatively, you can also submit this Google Form or create an issue with the above information and we will add the data for you.
This project is a community effort, and we welcome improvements through pull requests. Before submitting a pull request, please first preview your changes locally by running
python3 -m http.server
in the root directory of this repository and then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.
We believe issues and comments should be discussed and resolved publicly on GitHub for transparency. If you believe any data is inaccurate or have additional comments, please open an issue or a pull request.
The maintainers will not respond to private messages sent to their personal accounts regarding this website.
Frontend (i.e., CSS and HTML) of this website is based on code licensed from CSRankings by Emery Berger.
Data and non-CSRankings code in this repository is owned by its contributors, and licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. See LICENSE for details.
CSStipendRankings is designed to highlight stipend situations across various institutions, based on user-submitted information. We try our best to verify their accuracy, but we cannot guarantee they are correct or up-to-date. Ultimately, while we hope you find this information useful, this should not be used as the primary basis for grad school decisions. We advocate users to do their own research before making life decisions.
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