Public universities ranked for CS tenure-track assistant professor searches. Not by prestige — a lower-ranked school scores higher here, because tenure is the point. Weighted for a suburb near a real city rather than inside it, school districts you'd put a kid in, hospitals, housing you can afford on the salary, and a union contract.
Every number here is an estimate. Salaries, home prices, school-district and hospital scores, and CS department sizes are researched approximations, not official figures. This is one person's opinionated index — not an official ranking, and not affiliated with any institution. How it's built.
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