
Canada’s largest school of engineering is recognized as one of the top 50 throughout the world with 305 faculty, 227 staff and 9,150 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.Faculty and graduate students in the School of Computer Science are known for developing fundamental research results, publishing in top scientific journals and conferences, and moving research into practice by working with industrial partners and starting spin-off companies.Lin's research aims to build tools that help users make sense of large quantities of data. Lin's arrival at Waterloo was the catalyst for merging the Information Retrieval and Database Systems research groups into the new Data Systems Group, of which he is a member. Cheriton School of Computer Science welcomed data systems researcher Jimmy Lin as a professor and David R. Ilyas from the Cheriton School of Computer Science, who researches new methods for storing, cleaning, and curating data. The chair is initially held by Professor Ihab F. Thomson Reuters and the University of Waterloo have joined forces to fuel breakthroughs in data science and entrepreneurial leadership, with the establishment of the Thomson Reuters-funded Research Chair in Data Cleaning from Theory to Practice.Waterloo has the largest academic concentration of computer science researchers in Canada with 16 research groups, 86 faculty, more than 40 staff and more than 3,000 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.More details on the methodology used are available.

These subject-based rankings are based on Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators subject categories, which reflect journal classifications. “In the past decade, we have worked with over 1,000 industry partners and are now an international leader in the areas of wireless communications, machine intelligence, robotics and autonomous vehicles, additive manufacturing and 3D printing, biomedical sensors, nanotechnology, smart infrastructure and water resource technologies.” The ranking is a testament to the depth of talent and calibre of original ideas published by our faculty members and graduate students,” said Sullivan. “We are not only the largest undergraduate engineering school in Canada, but we also produce the largest number of PhD graduates. Pearl Sullivan, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, says the ranking confirms Waterloo’s strength as a national leader in the discipline. Cheriton School of Computer Science are changing the science, technology and application of computing,” says Watt. From cybersecurity & privacy and data science, to fundamental innovations in machine learning and algorithms, researchers in the David R. “As the largest concentration of academic computer science researchers in Canada, our faculty members and graduate students are consistently publishing transformational research that is integrated into the everyday lives of Canadians. Cheriton School of Computer Science, says Stephen Watt, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo.


The ranking is a strong endorsement of the quality of research and education happening at Waterloo’s David R. Computer science at Waterloo moved up one spot to 18 th this year while engineering held strong in the 47 th spot.

The US News ranking rates 1,000 universities in more than 60 countries in 22 subject disciplines. University of Waterloo is the top school in Canada for computer science and engineering, according to the US News' Global University Subject-area Rankings.
