True, but the number of non-us schools that any American in computer science can name tops out at like 20, and that&#x27;s only if they&#x27;ve been grad school or recruiting long enough. Let&#x27;s see how I can do at naming perceived good foriegn schools. I&#x27;m not going to google anything, so the any misnaming is an accurate representation of the data in my head. These are listed in no particular order.<p>North America and the Caribbean excluding the United States<p>- Canada: Simon Frasier, Waterloo, UBC, Toronto, McGill<p>- Mexico et al: nada<p>South America<p>- mas nada<p>Africa<p>- South Africa: I one time had a CS professor from the University of Natal, but that&#x27;s all I really know about it.<p>Australia and Oceania<p>- New Zealand: Weka came out of University of Waikato or something. That&#x27;s popular, so I guess it must have something going on.<p>Asia:<p>- Japan: University of Tokyo<p>- Taiwan: National Taiwanese University? That&#x27;s shown up a few times I believe. Taiwan also has a Tsinghua, but that&#x27;s not the good one, so don&#x27;t count it. I on;y mentioned it because...<p>- China: Tsinghua University is very good. It&#x27;s &quot;the MIT of China.&quot; Peiking University is also a good school, but they&#x27;re not as engineering focused. There&#x27;s something called Beiha or something in Shanghai or so, that one&#x27;s good. There&#x27;s another school with a long name that&#x27;s in Guangzhou or something that&#x27;s on the coast but not near Shenzhen that whose colors are white and green that&#x27;s good. Maybe it&#x27;s Fujian?<p>- India: I know about IIT, but in all honesty I don&#x27;t remember seeing any papers or anything like that come out of it in my field, so I&#x27;m biased against it, even if it&#x27;s &quot;the MIT of India.&quot;<p>- Israel: Haifa, and Tel Aviv<p>Europe:<p>- UK: Cambridge and Oxford are famous, but I&#x27;ve never heard anything about their engineer schools, so I&#x27;m going to put them in the impressing-looking-degree-but-actually-only-average-or-less pile with Harvard and Yale CS grads. (Sorry Harvard boys and Yalies. Should have gone to Cornell.), Aberdeen shows up from time to time, so that&#x27;s a plus. There&#x27;s Open University, which might be okay, but I don&#x27;t really know. I know people that went to Southampton in HCI, so I&#x27;ll say yes for HCI. Swansea exists, but I don&#x27;t know.<p>- France: University 6 or something. Although, I think it recently changed it&#x27;s name, so if you&#x27;re using the new name, you&#x27;re out luck, because I don&#x27;t know any other schools in country.<p>- Switzerland: There&#x27;s the school in Lausanne. The one with the french name, and the four letter acronym ECPI or something. The first word is Ecole or something.  That&#x27;s got a good CS and math program.<p>- Austria: Zurich<p>- Germany: There&#x27;s the Max Planck Institute, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a school. There&#x27;s a university in Cologne, but I can&#x27;t tell you anything else about it. Other than that, I can&#x27;t name anything, which is a real shame, because Germany is famous for engineering. I heard the all the schools took a nosedive after the Nazis killed the Jews, but I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s true or not.<p>- Finland: University of Helsinki was good enough for Linus, it&#x27;s good enough for me.<p>- Russia: Moscow Technical University or something. That&#x27;s the good math school in Moscow. but there&#x27;s more than one university in Moscow, and so it&#x27;s hard to remember which one is which. It&#x27;s even harder, because I can&#x27;t actually name the other schools. I think St Petersburg also has STEM school, but maybe I&#x27;m just making that up.<p>And that&#x27;s pretty much the international STEM post-secondary educational system. So 25 schools that I&#x27;d call good. (Mentioned, but not good: Oxford, Cambridge, Cologne, Taiwan&#x27;s Tsinghua, IIT (sorry India)) And even though Max Planck isn&#x27;t a school, although if you have it on your resume, I&#x27;ll be impressed.<p>I&#x27;m sure I missed a ton, but that&#x27;s kind of my point.