CSStipendRankings: PhD Stipend Rankings
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.
How to contribute
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.
Add stipend for a new institution
Option 1
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 ($)>, <Annual Out-of-pocket Fees Charged by University ($)>, <Summer Funding Guarantee>
Please quote the institution name with "
if the name contains ,
in it (e.g., "University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"
). All stipend and cost listed should be for 12 months. Annual stipend amount is the guaranteed minimal amount, pre-tax, for most 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.csv
accordingly. -
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 Children
as 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.
Option 2
Alternatively, you can also submit this Google Form or create an issue with the above information and we will add the data for you.
Update Website Content
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.
License
The code and data in this repository is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. See LICENSE
for details.