MIT placed second in US News and World Reports annual ranking of the nation’s best colleges and universities, announced today.
As in previous years, MIT’s engineering program continues to top the list of undergraduate engineering programs at a doctoral institution. The Institute also ranked first in six of 12 engineering disciplines.
In its evaluation of undergraduate computer science programs, US News placed MIT first on the list along with Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The Institute ranked in the top two places in nine IT disciplines.
MIT remains the No. 2 undergraduate business program, a ranking it shares this year with the University of California, Berkeley. Among commercial subfields, MIT ranks first in two specialties.
In the magazine’s ranking of “college programs to research,” MIT topped the list in the undergraduate research category. The Institute also ranks fourth among the most innovative national universities, according to the US News peer review survey of top academics. And it ranks fifth on the list of national universities that offer students the best value, based on the school’s ranking of the net cost of tuition for a student who received the average level of financial aid based on needs and other variables.
MIT ranked first in six engineering specialties: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering (a shared internship with Georgia Tech); Chemical Engineer; computer engineering (shared with Carnegie Mellon); electrical/electronics/communications engineering; materials engineering; and mechanical engineering. He placed in the top five in three other engineering fields: bioengineering/biomedical engineering, civil engineering and environmental engineering/environmental health.
Other schools in the top five for undergraduate engineering programs are Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech and Georgia Tech.
Among undergraduate business majors, the MIT Sloan School of Management leads in manufacturing/operations analysis and management. It ranks second in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Management Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis/Methods. MIT Sloan also placed in the top five in two other categories: finance and supply chain management.
The #1 ranked undergraduate business program overall is at the University of Pennsylvania; Other schools ranked in the top five include Berkeley, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Carnegie Mellon and New York University.
In computer science, MIT ranked first in cybersecurity (shared with Carnegie Mellon) and theory. It placed second in seven disciplines: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics/bioinformatics/biotechnology; Informatic Systems; data analysis/science; mobile/web applications; Programming languages; and software engineering (shared with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). It ranks fifth in game/simulation development (shared with Rochester Institute of Technology and University of California Santa Cruz).
