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 five out of ten engineering disciplines.
US News also placed MIT first in its rating of undergraduate computer science programs. The Institute ranked first in four out of ten 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 is ranked first in three out of nine specialties.
In the magazine’s ranking of “college programs to look for,” MIT topped the list in the category of undergraduate research and creative projects. The Institute also ranks third among the most innovative national universities, according to the US News peer review survey of top academics.
MIT ranked first in five engineering specialties: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering; Chemical Engineer; electrical/electronics/communications engineering; materials engineering; and mechanical engineering. He placed in the top five in four other engineering fields: bioengineering/biomedical engineering, computer engineering; civil engineering and environmental engineering/environmental health.
Other schools in the top five for undergraduate engineering programs are Stanford University, Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley and Caltech.
In computer science, MIT ranked first in four specialties: bioinformatics/bioinformatics/biotechnology; Informatic Systems; Programming languages; and theory. It ranked in the top five out of five disciplines: artificial intelligence; cybersecurity (shared with Carnegie Mellon University); data analysis/science; mobile/web applications; and software engineering (shared with Stanford and UC Berkeley).
Other schools in the top five for undergraduate computer science programs are Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Among undergraduate business majors, the MIT Sloan School of Management leads in analytics; production/operations management; and quantitative analyses/methods. It also placed in the top five in three other categories: entrepreneurship; 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 UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, New York University and the University of Texas at Austin.
