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Computer Science research in Switzerland

ETH Zurich ranks first in Switzerland for Computer Science research in 2022–2025 (#17 worldwide), followed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Università della Svizzera italiana.

Switzerland's world rank
#16
of 131 countries, 2022–2025
Works, 2022–2025
8.7k
Top-10% rate
23.1%
Ranked institutions
23

Research strength only: this says nothing about teaching, admissions or cost.

What is the best university for Computer Science in Switzerland?

#InstitutionWorld rankScoreTop-10% rateWorks
1ETH ZurichZurich #1766.530.2%1,699
2École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanne #3956.622.8%1,125
3Università della Svizzera italianaLugano #19037.924.3%306
4University of ZurichZurich #32631.529.6%550
5University of BernBern #46227.419.7%316
6University of BaselBasel #54125.521.6%226
7Google (Switzerland)Zurich #77421.330.5%100
8IBM Research - ZurichRüschlikon #81720.639.2%157
9ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesWinterthur #1,14616.622.7%154
10University of St.GallenSaint Gallen #1,22415.830.7%216
11University of GenevaGeneva #1,33414.821.5%330
12University of FribourgFribourg #1,69812.017.2%160
13European Organization for Nuclear ResearchGeneva #1,81911.114.1%188
14University of LausanneLausanne #1,91110.623.1%203
15Human Computer Interaction (Switzerland)Zurich #2,2388.721.2%81
16Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence ResearchLugano #2,5737.121.7%68
17FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandWindisch #2,6166.818.5%149
18University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern SwitzerlandManno #2,7216.420.0%98
19University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtel #2,7696.217.4%84
20Idiap Research InstituteMartigny-Combe #2,8445.919.3%139
21Bern University of Applied SciencesBern #2,8705.821.8%91
22Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsLucerne #2,9115.611.4%113
23HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western SwitzerlandDelémont #3,0645.018.5%106

Institutions in Switzerland above the floor of 40 fractional works in Computer Science, ordered by their worldwide rank on research quality, 2022–2025.

Who are the top Computer Science researchers in Switzerland?

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Pascal Frossard and Jean‐Pierre Hubaux rank highest among researchers based in Switzerland.

  1. 1Jürgen Schmidhuber#468 worldwide overall4.3k citations · 152 works
  2. 2Pascal Frossard#1,457 worldwide overall3.8k citations · 191 works
  3. 3Jean‐Pierre Hubaux#1,638 worldwide overall2.2k citations · 92 works
  4. 4Davide Scaramuzza#2,330 worldwide overall2.5k citations · 73 works
  5. 5Pierre Vandergheynst#2,658 worldwide overall3.1k citations · 112 works
  6. 6Jan Camenisch#3,464 worldwide overall1.9k citations · 99 works
  7. 7Samy Bengio#3,799 worldwide overall1.6k citations · 95 works
  8. 8Luc Van Gool#4,439 worldwide overall8.5k citations · 488 works
  9. 9Nicolas Gisin#4,814 worldwide overall2.8k citations · 88 works
  10. 10Srđjan Čapkun#6,093 worldwide overall1.4k citations · 82 works
  11. 11Martin Vechev#10,108 worldwide overall965 citations · 83 works
  12. 12Andreas Krause#13,877 worldwide overall2.2k citations · 120 works
  13. 13Sabine Süsstrunk#14,564 worldwide overall1.4k citations · 96 works
  14. 14Giovanni De Micheli#15,923 worldwide overall2.7k citations · 147 works
  15. 15Vincent Lepetit#18,778 worldwide overall1.3k citations · 86 works

How Switzerland compares with other countries in Computer Science