Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

Clearly ETH Zurich http://www.inf.ethz.ch/ or www.ethz.ch

If you want to compare UK universities then have a look at the league tables: http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide....

Just type in the subject you're interested in. When I used it, I ordered the list by research quality.

Imperial College. In addition to a very strong Computing department (see other reviews, league tables or just believe me, I've got MSc Advanced Computing from there), it's situated in London, where many exciting IT companies are based. I would never have met so many great hackers/founders etc. if I chose not to study in London.

Cambridge has the advantage that people outside the UK don't know whether you mean Cambridge, UK or Cambridge, Massachusetts. So it's almost like you went to MIT as well.

(Tongue firmly in cheek.)

You ppl recommend only UK universities... this is sad, in my opinion. What I like about Europe is that it's the frontier of West and East. Thinking only about the west is narrow mindedness. The western learning philosophy is too "materialist" in my opinion, that's why there is no soul in western (american and english) science. I live in Hungary, and there are some very good universities here too, where you don't have to narrow your "mindsight", as I call it. I don't talk about chinese and indian computer science... it sucks, I know it very well. But look at Japan or Korea... CS is very advanced there, but they could preserve the soul of science too. There are some countries and universities in Europe too, where you can find the same.