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Select Findings from US News and World Report - Engineering Schools MIT Engineering Year that was released Rank 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Overall Score 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Peer Assessment Score (5.0 highest) 5.0 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 Recruiter Assessment Score (5.0 highest) 5.0 4.7 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.9 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.8 Average Quantitative GRE Score 757 761 760 767 767 774 777 770 775 779 777 779 780 780 783 164 165 166 Acceptance Rate 28.30% 25.4% 39.8% 29.3% 32.8% 32.1% 30.3% 29.5% 29.4% 23.6% 24.0% 25.3% 25.4% 22.2% 23.5% 22.9% 17.9% 18.0% 17.5% 16.4% 15.8% 17.8% Doctoral Student/ Faculty Ratio 2.5 2.5 3.0 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.7 3.7 4.1 4.1 4.4 4.2 4.2 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 5.5 5.6 5.5 Faculty in National Academy of Engineering 12.5% 12.2% 12.3% 13.9% 13.4% 13.1% 12.7% 13.2% 12.7% 12.7% 13.1% 12.7% 13.0% 13.2% 13.2% 12.9% 12.2% Engineering Research Expenditures (in millions) $147.4 $143.3 $131.5 $143.5 $161.4 $167.8 $177.0 $178.0 $189.7 $219.0 $241.0 $216.5 $224.8 $234.5 $237.7 $244.1 $266.3 $306.0 $332.5 $362.8 $387.2 $391.2 Research Expenditures per Faculty Member (in thousands) $511.5 $528.4 $532.9 $556.3 $623.9 $684.7 $614.9 $622.7 $644.3 $642.5 $659.6 $727.5 $829.3 $901.0 $978.0 $1,018.9 $1,026.8 PhDs granted 239 208 243 229 205 206 273 288 328 304 302 297 304 288 324 355 Total Enrollment 2,393 2,364 2,368 2,363 2,350 2,727 2,717 2,662 2,636 2,706 2,702 2,677 2,818 3,163 3,174 3,143 Average Analytic GRE Score 702 698 716 697 716 735 Rep. Rank by practicing engineers 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Reputation rank by academics 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Student Selectivity Rank 13 12 16 10 11 Research Activity Rank 1 1 1 1 1 Faculty Resources Rank 4 5 4 2 3 Office of the Provost Page 2 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Engineering Schools Peer Rankings Engineering Rank (Year indicates when data was released) year MIT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Stanford 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 Univ. California Berkeley 5 2 3 3 2 5 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 Carnegie Mellon 10 7 6 8 4 8 8 8 10 11 11 9 8 6 7 6 6 6 7 5 5 4 1 Cal Tech 6 5 8 6 8 7 6 7 7 7 6 8 10 7 6 7 7 7 5 4 4 5 1 Georgia Institute of Technology 11 11 9 5 4 3 4 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 0 Univ. Illinois Urbana Champaign 4 3 4 3 4 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 0 Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor 7 8 5 7 4 3 4 4 6 6 8 5 6 9 9 9 8 9 8 9 9 6 3 Purdue 3 10 10 10 8 9 9 13 12 9 8 10 6 12 15 12 13 11 10 8 8 8 0 USC 21 20 19 14 16 12 12 11 8 6 7 9 7 8 7 10 11 12 9 11 10 1 UT Austin 9 8 11 11 11 10 9 10 10 9 12 12 13 11 11 10 9 8 8 11 10 10 0 Texas A&M College Station 20 17 17 18 21 14 13 11 12 14 14 14 14 14 13 14 12 13 12 11 11 12 1 Cornell 8 6 7 9 8 11 9 9 8 11 10 12 11 10 9 11 10 10 10 13 13 13 0 Columbia 23 24 24 23 20 19 21 21 18 16 15 15 14 14 0 UCLA 17 16 15 14 16 20 21 22 21 19 16 15 15 16 13 14 15 14 16 16 16 14 2 Univ Wisconsin Madison 13 12 16 12 12 12 14 14 15 15 14 15 15 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 17 14 3 Univ. California San Diego 23 21 20 15 16 14 11 13 11 11 13 11 12 13 14 14 14 14 17 3 Princeton 16 19 14 21 13 17 16 17 18 18 16 17 18 18 18 18 17 18 21 17 17 18 1 University of Pennsylvannia 30 27 23 22 23 22 19 19 0 Harvard 22 21 25 25 25 21 17 17 19 20 21 23 22 18 19 18 19 23 24 20 4 Northwestern 12 13 13 13 13 15 19 18 20 19 20 21 21 21 20 21 21 20 19 20 22 21 1 Virginia Tech 25 24 25 25 23 30 33 28 27 25 24 24 24 21 21 0 Univ Maryland College Park 25 18 13 17 17 18 19 16 16 17 15 16 17 17 22 22 18 19 22 23 1 Univ. California Santa Barbara 24 24 25 25 22 24 24 21 21 21 19 19 18 19 21 21 20 19 23 4 Johns Hopkins 25 23 17 21 25 24 24 22 21 21 26 27 25 25 26 26 25 27 25 2 Penn State 14 15 18 16 18 15 17 14 15 21 21 19 19 21 23 23 23 25 25 25 25 25 0 Univ. Washington 24 22 25 24 21 23 24 27 28 27 26 25 26 27 1 Duke University 35 35 33 31 28 28 29 28 1 North Carolina State 30 31 30 31 31 29 29 28 1 Univ. Minnesota Twin Cities 15 14 12 18 20 23 20 21 22 28 23 24 23 28 27 28 29 28 28 0 Rice 24 25 29 30 35 34 33 34 31 32 33 31 2 Ohio State 19 18 20 22 25 20 22 24 24 26 26 29 27 25 29 30 29 31 32 1 University of California Davis 32 33 32 31 31 33 31 33 2 Univ. Colorado Boulder 22 39 40 39 40 39 36 35 34 34 34 0 Vanderbilt 37 37 35 34 34 35 1 Yale 39 40 39 35 34 34 34 35 1 Boston University 42 39 38 38 40 37 3 University of California Irvine 37 35 36 39 39 37 38 37 1 Renesselaer 18 21 24 20 18 17 19 25 37 36 32 31 35 37 42 38 38 39 1 University of Rochester 32 38 37 42 41 38 37 39 2 University of Virginia 38 37 39 39 39 38 40 39 1 Arizona State University 44 44 43 44 43 42 1 Iowa State University 45 45 43 43 46 43 3 Univ. Florida 23 25 26 26 24 25 30 30 35 38 42 43 1 University of Pittsburgh 48 52 47 45 43 43 0 Office of the Provost Page 3 of 29 Institutional Research
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Select Findings from US News and World Report - Engineering Schools Rank (Year indicates when data was released) MIT Specialties within Engineering year Aeronautics and Astronautics 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 Biological/Agricultural NR NR NR NR NR NR Biomedical Engineering 4 4 3 2 4 3 2 4 2 3 8 7 8 8 6 5 6 6 5 5 3 4 1 Chemical Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Civil Engineering 2 1 2 3 3 3 2 4 3 3 5 5 4 6 4 3 7 7 6 7 6 8 2 Computer Engineering (no s in ) 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Electrical Engineering 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Environmental Engineering NR NR 5 3 6 7 4 7 9 7 9 12 NR 11 10 9 10 10 9 9 11 10 1 Industrial/Manufacturing NR NR NR 3 6 6 0 Materials Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Mechanical Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 Nuclear Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NR 1 1 NR 1 2 1 2 2 3 3 2 1 1 2 1 NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 5 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Computer Engineering Peer Rankings Computer Engineering Peer Rankings Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering MIT 1 1 1 1 MIT 1 1 1 1 Stanford 2 1 Stanford 1 1 1 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 3 2 2 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 3 3 1 3 Carnegie Mellon 5 3 4 4 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 7 3 4 4 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 4 4 5 5 Cal Tech 7 5 4 5 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 7 5 6 6 Georgia Institute of Technology 5 5 6 6 Georgia Institute of Technology 6 5 7 7 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 6 7 7 7 Cornell 9 5 8 9 Carnegie Mellon 3 7 8 8 Princeton University 9 9 11 9 Princeton University 12 9 8 University of Texas Austin 11 5 9 9 Cornell 9 7 10 10 Purdue 12 10 9 12 Purdue 10 10 10 10 University of California Los Angeles 12 University of Texas Austin 10 12 10 Univ Cal San Diego 16 12 11 13 UCLA 14 18 13 University of Southern California 14 12 13 13 University of Southern California 14 13 13 Columbia University 18 16 17 16 Columbia University 19 24 15 University of Washington 14 12 15 16 Univ Cal San Diego 16 15 15 University of Wisconsin Madison 17 11 13 16 University of Maryland College Park 16 15 15 University of Maryland College Park 18 15 15 19 Texas A & M 25 13 18 Rice 23 16 18 20 University of Washington 21 24 18 Harvard 26 22 27 21 University of Wisconsin Madison 16 15 18 Johns Hopkins 22 21 21 Harvard 25 27 21 Texas A & M 30 16 21 21 Ohio State 25 18 21 University of California Santa Barbara 18 19 18 21 Rice 19 21 21 University of Penn 21 21 Johns Hopkins 13 21 24 Northwestern 25 21 26 University of California Santa Barbara 21 18 24 Ohio State 26 19 18 26 Virginia Tech 21 27 24 University of Minnesotta Twin Cities 22 21 26 Arizona State University 27 27 Virginia Tech 23 19 27 26 Duke 27 27 Duke University 25 27 30 Northwestern University 27 Penn State 21 31 RPI 25 27 27 RPI 26 27 35 33 University of Penn 27 27 Brown University 31 38 Penn State 25 24 32 Univ Cal Irvine 31 38 University of Minnesota Twin Cities 21 32 North Carolina State 27 27 46 Yale University 32 Office of the Provost Page 6 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Business Schools MIT Business Year when data was released Rank 2 1 2 4 3 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 5 5 Overall Score 99.7 100 99.9 98.7 99 95 98 96 92 94 96 93 93 95 93 92 94 93 93 97 95 96 Peer Assessment Score (5.0 highest) 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7 Recruiter Assessment Score (5.0 highest) 4.4 4.4 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.5 Average Undergrad GPA 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.57 3.57 3.51 3.53 3.58 3.58 Average GMAT Score 650 650 650 650 675 690 700 710 703 707 710 697 700 702 705 708 711 718 710 710 713 713 Acceptance Rate 20.6% 23.2% 19.6% 15.1% 13.8% 13.4% 14.9% 17.5% 18.1% 13.7% 18.2% 20.8% 22.0% 20.1% 19.7% 15.0% 14.2% 13.0% 13.3% 15.6% 13.1% 13.8% Starting Salary and Bonus $65,000 $68,000 $75,000 $78,000 $75,000 $100,000 $101,323 $112,741 $118,381 $101,922 $99,539 $104,309 $112,632 $118,779 $127,839 $131,087 $125,707 $125,905 $132,618 $139,035 $137,057 $142,936 Graduates Employed at Graduation 97.1% 97.2% 93.2% 85.1% 72.9% 77.0% 80.0% 77.9% 84.4% 86.9% 79.0% 69.5% 75.6% 80.8% 84.5% 80.9% 79.6% Employed 3 months after graduation 98.0% 98.0% 100.0% 98.8% 97.7% 97.1% 98.4% 95.4% 90.1% 82.9% 88.3% 90.7% 91.3% 94.0% 94.6% 90.0% 83.4% 88.9% 93.5% 94.4% 87.4% 92.8% Out of State Tuition and Fees $20,500 $21,690 $22,700 $23,900 $25,800 $27,100 $28,200 $29,860 $31,200 $32,470 $34,780 $37,050 $40,044 $42,564 $44,792 $47,034 $48,922 $50,625 $52,900 $58,200 $61,440 $63,750 Total Enrollment 708 713 714 733 744 765 785 752 781 770 788 792 797 804 816 819 812 Reputation rank by academics 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Rep. Rank by recruiters 8 3 7 4 5 10 6 Student Selectivity Rank 2 3 4 9 2 Placement Success Rank 1 1 1 3 7 Graduation Ratio Rank 1 Office of the Provost Page 7 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Business Schools Peer Rankings Business Year data was released year Stanford 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Harvard 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 Univ. Pennsylvania 4 2 3 3 3 2 3 4 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 3 1 3 2 Univ. Chicago 6 7 6 5 6 6 6 9 6 9 6 8 6 5 4 5 5 5 4 6 4 4 0 MIT 2 1 2 4 3 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 5 5 0 Northwestern 5 5 4 6 6 2 5 3 5 4 5 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 4 6 6 0 Univ. California Berkeley 12 10 10 10 10 14 10 7 10 7 8 6 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 0 Columbia 11 12 8 7 3 7 6 6 8 6 6 9 7 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 0 Dartmouth 7 6 7 8 8 12 11 11 9 10 9 6 9 7 7 8 7 7 9 9 9 9 0 Univ. Virginia 13 9 11 11 10 11 11 15 10 11 12 14 13 12 14 15 13 13 13 12 11 10 1 NYU 17 17 13 13 14 13 14 12 13 12 14 13 13 10 10 11 9 10 11 10 10 11 1 Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor 8 11 12 12 10 7 9 10 10 13 10 10 11 11 12 13 12 14 13 14 11 11 0 Duke 9 8 9 9 10 9 8 8 6 7 11 11 11 12 14 12 14 12 12 11 14 13 1 Yale 19 14 18 15 15 15 16 12 13 14 14 15 15 14 13 10 11 10 10 13 13 13 0 UCLA 10 13 16 17 8 10 11 12 15 14 12 11 10 16 11 14 15 14 15 14 16 15 1 Cornell 15 14 15 20 19 16 15 16 16 16 14 15 16 14 14 17 18 16 16 16 17 16 1 UT Austin 18 19 18 18 15 18 16 18 18 17 23 18 18 18 18 18 16 17 17 17 15 17 2 UNC Chapel Hill 16 18 17 16 15 16 18 18 17 21 21 21 20 18 19 20 21 19 19 20 19 18 1 Washington Univ. 25 26 29 25 22 19 20 22 21 22 19 3 Carnegie Mellon 13 14 14 14 15 18 19 17 18 17 17 17 16 17 17 15 16 18 18 19 18 20 2 Emory 21 23 22 23 21 21 21 23 22 21 19 18 18 20 24 22 27 23 19 18 20 21 1 Indiana Univ. Bloomington 21 21 20 19 21 21 20 20 21 23 23 23 24 20 22 23 23 23 22 21 21 0 Univ. Washington 18 29 29 34 26 33 37 35 23 25 23 2 Georgetown Univ 25 22 25 22 24 24 34 25 22 19 24 25 24 25 23 24 1 University of Notre Dame 31 37 25 27 23 25 2 USC 20 21 23 22 21 20 20 18 29 21 21 20 20 21 21 26 27 25 2 Texas A&M 23 31 29 29 33 33 32 32 35 37 27 10 Univ. Minnesota Twin Cities 24 21 23 23 25 27 33 24 21 30 23 33 27 6 Vanderbilt Univ. 25 25 24 49 34 44 33 36 28 25 30 25 27 2 Arizona State 22 29 27 27 30 30 27 30 3 Georgia Inst. of Tech. 29 22 26 28 32 27 27 30 3 Ohio State 25 22 25 25 23 24 19 19 21 22 22 27 26 21 25 25 27 27 30 3 Brigham Young 29 29 33 32 34 30 27 33 6 Rice University 40 38 39 34 25 30 33 33 0 University of Texas Dallas 50 40 37 37 37 33 4 Michigan State U 24 23 29 40 40 46 49 44 43 35 36 1 Penn State 40 40 48 40 44 49 41 36 5 Univ. Rochester 23 24 23 20 20 23 25 23 23 26 36 25 29 27 45 37 37 37 36 1 University of Florida 44 36 41 36 5 Univ of Maryland Coll. Park 24 25 38 25 39 40 45 45 44 37 41 40 1 Boston University 40 46 31 34 37 40 45 42 3 University of Iowa 42 40 49 44 51 42 9 Boston College 39 34 37 40 45 44 1 U of Ill Urbana Champaign 23 28 37 38 38 42 37 37 47 35 46 11 University of California Davis 42 28 36 40 41 47 6 Purdue 23 20 21 24 24 20 23 23 24 23 21 22 33 32 36 49 42 44 40 52 12 University of California Irvine 36 40 49 49 45 52 7 University Wisconsin 29 28 27 28 25 34 27 27 UArkansas Fayettville 50 51 51 66 55 55 0 Wake Forest University 46 47 44 47 58 58 0 Tulane University 40 43 67 63 63 0 Office of the Provost Page 8 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Business Schools Ranking the Top 10 Business Schools U.S. News Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Stanford Harvard Univ. Pennsylvania Univ. Chicago MIT Northwestern Univ. California Berkeley Columbia Dartmouth Univ. Virginia NYU Office of the Provost Page 9 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Business Schools MIT Specialties within Business Rank (Year indicates when data was released) year Accounting NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 24 29 19 22 14 19 18 26 8 Entrepreneurship NR NR NR NR 9 6 6 5 5 6 5 5 5 3 3 4 3 3 3 0 Executive MBA NR NR NR NR 18 14 12 NR 20 NR 17 NR 15 Finance 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 6 6 6 6 4 6 6 5 6 5 6 1 Information Systems 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 International NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 20 19 22 NR 20 15 19 13 6 Management NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 11 12 10 13 11 12 13 13 12 1 Marketing NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 10 NR NR 13 13 13 14 13 18 13 14 16 2 Nonprofit NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR Production/Operations 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Supply Chain/Logistics 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 10 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Economics Programs Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Economics Harvard 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 MIT 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Princeton 1 4 2 3 1 1 0 Univ of Chicago 1 4 2 1 1 1 0 Stanford 1 1 2 3 5 5 0 Univ. of Cal Berkeley 6 4 6 3 6 5 1 Northwestern 8 8 8 8 8 7 1 Yale 6 7 7 7 6 7 1 Univ of Pennsylvania 8 9 9 9 9 9 0 Columbia 12 14 14 11 10 10 0 NYU 25 21 19 15 12 11 1 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 10 10 11 15 10 11 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 10 12 11 11 12 13 1 Univ Wisconsin Madison 12 10 10 11 14 13 1 Cal Tech 17 14 14 17 14 15 1 UCLA 12 12 11 11 14 15 1 Univ Cal San Diego 17 14 17 10 14 15 1 Cornell 15 18 17 17 18 18 0 Brown 21 21 21 21 19 19 0 Carnegie Mellon 19 19 19 20 19 19 0 Duke 20 19 21 21 19 19 0 Univ of Maryland College Park 23 24 24 21 22 22 0 Univ Rochester 15 14 14 19 22 22 0 Boston Univ 25 25 24 24 0 Johns Hopkins 21 21 24 24 25 24 1 UT Austin 25 21 25 25 26 1 Univ of Virginia 25 25 28 30 2 Office of the Provost Page 11 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Economics Programs MIT Specialties within Economics Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Development Economics 3 2 2 0 Econometrics 1 2 1 1 Industrial Organization 1 1 1 3 5 6 1 International Economics 2 1 3 5 5 5 0 Labor Economics 4 4 3 1 Macroeconomics 2 3 3 1 1 2 1 Microeconomics 2 2 1 3 1 2 1 Public Finance 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 Office of the Provost Page 12 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Political Science Programs Peer Rankings Political Science Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Harvard 1 1 1 1 1 0 Princeton 6 6 4 1 2 1 Stanford 3 2 2 1 2 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 2 2 3 4 4 0 Yale 6 5 5 5 4 1 Univ. of Cal Berkeley 3 2 5 6 6 0 Columbia 17 11 10 7 7 0 MIT 8 11 10 9 8 1 Univ Cal San Diego 14 7 7 7 8 1 Duke 12 8 8 9 10 1 UCLA 9 8 10 11 10 1 Univ of Chicago 5 8 8 11 12 1 UNC Chapel Hill 16 15 13 13 13 0 Washington Univ 20 18 16 13 13 0 NYU 18 17 15 2 Ohio State 17 15 13 17 15 2 Univ Rochester 9 11 13 15 15 0 Univ Wisconsin Madison 9 11 16 15 15 0 Cornell 14 20 18 20 19 1 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 12 15 18 17 19 2 Northwestern 20 20 21 21 21 0 UT Austin 22 23 25 21 21 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 22 23 22 21 23 2 Indiana Univ Bloomington 17 18 25 26 25 1 Texas A&M 22 24 25 1 Univ Washington 23 25 26 28 2 Michigan State 25 22 22 28 32 4 Univ Iowa 25 25 32 Office of the Provost Page 13 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Political Science Programs MIT Specialties within Political Science Rank (Year indicates when data was released) American Politics NR NR NR 12 NR Comparative Politics NR NR NR 14 12 2 International Politics NR NR NR 10 12 2 Political Methodology NR 10 10 0 Political Theory NR NR NR NR NR NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 14 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Biological Sciences Peer Rankings Biological Sciences Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Stanford 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Harvard 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 1 MIT 1 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 1 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 Cal Tech 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 0 Johns Hopkins 6 6 5 5 6 5 5 0 Princeton 6 7 9 9 12 7 9 2 Scripps Research 10 9 7 7 9 2 Univ Cal San Francisco 9 7 5 9 7 7 7 0 Yale 9 7 9 7 7 7 7 0 Cornell 11 12 14 7 12 11 11 0 Washington Univ 15 12 14 9 7 11 11 0 Duke 11 12 12 12 12 13 11 2 Univ of Chicago 11 12 20 19 18 13 14 1 Columbia 19 17 14 19 15 15 14 1 Rockefeller 6 10 8 12 7 15 14 1 Univ Cal San Diego 15 17 14 12 18 15 14 1 Univ Washington 15 20 20 17 18 15 19 4 Univ Wisconsin Madison 11 12 12 12 15 15 18 3 Univ Cal Davis 20 20 24 17 23 20 19 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 18 17 14 12 15 20 19 1 Univ Pennsylvania 20 23 23 24 21 20 19 1 Univ Texas Southwest Medical Center 25 20 14 19 21 20 19 1 UCLA 20 23 20 22 23 24 19 5 UNC Chapel Hill 25 24 26 24 26 2 Baylor 20 23 24 22 26 26 25 1 Cornell Medical College 25 28 26 26 26 0 Northwestern 26 26 0 University of Texas Austin 26 30 4 Univ Colorado Boulder 20 28 33 30 30 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 25 24 24 29 30 30 0 Office of the Provost Page 15 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Biological Sciences Rank (Year indicates when data was released) MIT Specialties within Biological Sciences Biochemistry/Biophysics/Structural Biology 2 7 3 2 3 5 2 Cell Biology NR 3 4 2 7 NR Ecology/Evolutionary Biology NR NR NR NR Genetics/Genomics/Bioinformatics 2 1 2 6 4 Immunology/Infectious Disease NR NR NR NR Microbiology 4 NR NR 6 7 NR Molecular Biology 3 4 2 2 4 2 Neuroscience/Neurobiology NR NR 9 4 5 5 0 NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 16 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Chemistry Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Chemistry Cal Tech 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 0 MIT 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 Univ Cal Berkeley 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Harvard 2 2 2 3 5 4 4 0 Stanford 2 2 5 3 1 4 4 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 8 6 6 6 7 6 6 0 Northwestern 12 11 12 9 9 7 7 0 Scripps Research 8 6 6 7 7 0 Univ Wisconsin Madison 10 10 8 7 7 7 9 2 Columbia 6 8 8 7 11 10 10 0 Cornell 6 6 8 9 9 10 10 0 UT Austin 16 11 12 9 12 12 12 0 UNC Chapel Hill 15 15 14 14 16 13 15 2 Univ Chicago 8 11 14 14 12 13 12 1 Yale 12 15 14 12 15 13 12 1 Princeton 12 17 14 14 16 16 15 1 UCLA 10 11 11 12 12 16 15 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 20 20 21 17 16 16 15 1 Texas A&M 19 18 22 18 22 19 19 0 Univ Pennsylvania 20 20 18 18 20 19 19 0 Johns Hopkins 20 24 28 21 24 3 Penn State 20 18 22 16 21 21 0 Purdue 16 18 18 22 22 21 21 0 Univ Cal San Diego 20 22 18 20 21 21 0 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 20 20 22 24 22 21 24 3 Georgia Tech 26 24 2 Indiana Univ Bloomington 16 20 24 34 26 24 2 Ohio State Univ 20 20 22 24 28 26 31 5 Univ Colorado Boulder 20 20 22 24 28 26 24 2 University of California Irvine 26 24 2 University of Washington 26 24 2 Office of the Provost Page 17 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Chemistry MIT Specialties within Chemistry Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Analytical NR NR NR NR NR NR Biochemistry 5 2 6 7 1 Inorganic 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 Organic NR 4 5 4 5 4 1 Physical 3 3 3 3 2 3 1 Theoretical 5 3 5 7 2 NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 18 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Computer Science Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Computer Science Carnegie Mellon 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 0 MIT 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Stanford 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 Univ Cal Berkeley 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 0 Cornell 5 5 6 5 6 5 6 1 Univ Washington 7 7 7 7 6 7 6 1 Princeton 7 8 9 8 6 8 8 0 Georgia Tech 18 13 12 11 9 10 9 1 UT Austin 9 9 7 9 9 8 9 1 Cal Tech 11 11 10 11 11 11 11 0 Univ Wisconsin Madison 10 9 10 9 11 11 11 0 UCLA 12 13 14 15 13 14 13 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 18 13 14 15 13 13 13 0 Columbia 18 21 20 18 16 17 15 2 Univ Cal San Diego 25 25 20 13 16 14 15 1 Univ Maryland College Park 12 11 12 13 13 14 15 1 Harvard 16 17 20 15 16 17 18 1 Univ Pennsylvania 22 25 17 18 20 17 19 2 Brown 12 13 14 22 20 20 20 0 Purdue 22 17 20 18 19 20 20 0 Rice 16 17 17 22 20 20 20 0 USC 21 25 20 20 20 0 Yale 12 17 25 18 20 20 20 0 Duke 25 20 25 20 27 25 2 UNC Chapel Hill 18 21 17 22 20 20 25 5 Univ Massachusetts Amherst 22 21 25 25 20 20 25 5 Office of the Provost Page 19 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Computer Science Rank (Year indicates when data was released) MIT Specialties within Computer Science Artificial Intelligence 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 Programming Language 4 4 4 4 0 Systems 2 2 2 2 2 0 Theory 5 1 1 2 1 2 1 NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 20 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Earth Sciences Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Earth Sciences (prior to category was Geology) * * Cal Tech 1 1 1 1 1 0 MIT 2 2 2 1 2 1 Stanford 3 3 2 4 3 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 4 3 4 3 3 0 Columbia 6 5 5 5 5 0 Penn State University Park 16 7 7 6 6 0 Univ Arizona 9 7 8 7 7 0 Harvard 7 7 9 8 8 0 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 5 5 5 9 8 1 UT Austin 9 11 9 9 8 1 Princeton 9 11 11 9 11 2 Univ Washington 16 18 11 13 11 2 Univ Cal Los Angeles 9 11 11 17 13 4 Univ Wisconsin Madison 19 17 15 13 13 0 Yale 9 20 11 12 13 1 Brown 20 18 19 17 16 1 Cornell 9 11 15 13 16 3 Univ Cal San Diego 16 11 15 17 16 1 Univ Cal Santa Cruz 22 23 19 13 16 3 Arizonia State University 17 20 3 Univ Cal Davis 25 25 21 17 20 3 Univ Chicago 7 10 15 17 20 3 Univ Cal Santa Barbara 21 21 21 23 23 0 Univ Colorado Boulder 25 23 23 0 Colorado School of Mines 25 25 0 Rice 25 25 25 25 0 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 22 21 21 28 25 3 University of Sourthern Cal 25 25 0 Washington Univ 22 23 25 28 25 3 Johns Hopkins 9 11 21 28 30 2 Virginia Tech 28 30 2 * Program = Geology Office of the Provost Page 21 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Earth Sciences Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Environmental Sciences MIT Specialties within Earth Sciences NR Geochemistry 5 4 4 2 10 8 Geology 2 2 2 7 7 5 Geophysics and Seismology 2 2 2 2 4 0 Paleontology NR NR NR NR NR NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 22 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Mathematics Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Ranking Mathematics MIT 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 Princeton 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 Harvard 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 Stanford 5 2 2 2 2 2 5 3 Univ of Chicago 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 1 Cal Tech 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 0 UCLA 12 12 10 12 12 8 7 1 Columbia 11 12 13 11 9 10 9 1 NYU 9 9 10 7 9 10 9 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 9 9 8 7 9 8 9 1 Yale 6 6 7 7 7 10 9 1 Cornell 12 9 10 12 13 13 13 0 Brown 16 16 21 15 14 14 14 0 Univ Texas Austin 16 14 15 15 14 14 14 0 Univ Wisconsin Madison 12 14 13 14 14 16 14 2 Duke 25 25 21 21 24 17 7 Northwestern 24 21 21 21 18 16 17 1 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 19 17 16 17 18 20 17 3 Univ Maryland College Park 19 21 16 20 21 20 17 3 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 15 17 16 17 17 18 17 1 Univ Pennsylvania 19 21 16 17 18 18 17 1 Rutgers New Brunswick 16 17 16 21 24 20 23 3 Univ Cal San Diego 19 17 21 21 24 20 23 3 Johns Hopkins 25 21 21 24 25 1 SUNY Stony Brook 19 21 21 26 24 24 25 1 Univ Washington 24 25 29 24 27 25 2 Georgia Tech 30 28 2 Ohio State University 30 28 2 Penn State 28 27 28 1 Purdue 24 25 26 28 27 28 1 Rice 25 26 28 30 28 2 Indiana University Bloomington 28 30 34 4 Office of the Provost Page 23 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Mathematics Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Algebra/Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry MIT Specialties within Mathematics 4 6 6 5 5 0 Analysis 3 3 6 5 3 Applied Math 1 1 2 2 3 4 1 Discrete Mathematics and Combinations 1 1 1 1 0 Geometry* 4 2 3 4 2 1 Logic 5 NR 9 NR NR Topology* 4 3 5 4 4 1 * Combined in NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 24 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Physics Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Physics MIT 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 Cal Tech 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 Harvard 1 3 3 4 3 1 2 1 Princeton 4 3 3 4 3 5 2 3 Stanford 4 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 4 3 3 4 3 5 2 3 Cornell 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 0 Univ Chicago 8 7 7 8 8 7 7 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 9 9 9 8 8 9 9 0 Univ Cal Santa Barbara 13 10 10 10 10 10 10 0 Columbia 11 10 10 11 11 11 11 0 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 14 13 13 13 13 11 11 0 Yale 10 10 12 13 11 11 11 0 Univ Maryland College Park 14 14 13 15 13 14 14 0 Univ Texas Austin 11 14 13 11 16 14 14 0 Johns Hopkins 23 21 20 22 20 19 16 3 Univ Cal San Diego 17 18 16 16 16 14 16 2 Univ Pennsylvania 17 18 20 16 13 17 16 1 UCLA 17 14 16 16 16 19 18 1 Univ Colorado Boulder 25 20 16 20 19 18 1 Univ Wisconsin Madison 17 18 16 16 16 17 18 1 Univ Washington 14 14 16 16 20 19 22 3 Ohio State 23 25 24 24 26 23 23 0 Penn State 23 23 23 0 SUNY Stony Brook 17 21 23 22 23 23 23 0 Northwestern University 26 30 26 4 Rice 26 26 0 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 25 24 24 27 23 26 26 0 Brown 30 29 1 Duke 30 29 1 Georgia Tech 30 29 1 Rutgers New Brunswick 22 21 24 24 26 26 29 3 U Cal Davis 26 29 3 U Cal Irvine 30 29 1 Carnegie Mellon 30 36 6 Office of the Provost Page 25 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Physics MIT Specialties within Physics Year data was released Atomic / Molecular / Optical* 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 Condensed Matter 2 2 4 2 1 3 2 Cosmology /Relativity /Gravity Elementary Particles/Fields/String Theory** 4 6 7 7 0 NR 2 5 1 6 5 1 Nuclear** 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 Plasma* 1 1 2 2 3 1 Quantum 1 1 1 3 2 * Combined in ** Combined in NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 26 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Psychology Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Peer Rankings Psychology Change from Stanford 1 1 1 1 0 UCLA 6 5 3 2 1 Univ Cal Berkeley 6 2 1 2 1 Harvard 6 5 3 4 1 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 2 2 3 4 1 Yale 3 4 3 4 1 Princeton 11 5 8 7 1 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 3 5 7 7 0 MIT 11 12 11 9 2 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 11 16 8 9 1 Univ Wisconsin Madison 9 9 8 9 1 Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill 17 22 13 12 1 Univ Pennsylvannia 15 16 11 12 1 Columbia 11 16 17 14 3 Cornell 15 16 17 14 3 Northwestern 17 22 17 14 3 Univ Cal San Diego 17 16 17 14 3 Univ Washington 17 22 13 14 1 UT Austin 17 12 13 14 1 Washington Univ 39 36 13 14 1 Carnegie Mellon 9 9 17 21 4 Duke 24 16 23 21 2 Ohio State 24 9 17 21 4 Univ Cal Davis 61 47 23 21 2 Univ Chicago 30 28 23 21 2 Brown Univ 30 36 29 26 3 Indiana Univ Bloomington 17 22 23 26 3 Johns Hopkins 24 22 23 26 3 Univ Virginia 17 28 23 26 3 NYU 30 36 29 30 1 Penn State 39 36 29 30 1 Univ Cal Irvine 30 22 29 30 1 Univ Colorado Boulder 30 28 29 30 1 Univ Iowa 45 47 29 30 1 Vanderbilt 39 36 29 30 1 Office of the Provost Page 27 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - Psychology MIT Specialties within Psychology Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Behavioral Neuroscience 4 6 2 4 Cognitive Psychology 9 6 5 10 5 Developmental Psychology NR NR NR NR Experimental Psychology NR NR 5 Industrial and Organizational Psychology NR NR NR NR Social Psychology NR NR NR NR = Not Ranked Office of the Provost Page 28 of 29 Institutional Research
Select Findings from US News and World Report - History Programs Peer Rankings History Rank (Year indicates when data was released) Princeton 1 1 2 1 1 0 Univ. of Cal Berkeley 3 3 2 1 1 0 Yale 1 1 1 1 1 0 Harvard 7 8 4 5 4 1 Stanford 4 3 4 1 4 3 Univ Chicago 4 5 4 5 4 1 Columbia 7 5 7 7 7 0 Univ Michigan Ann Arbor 6 5 7 7 7 0 UCLA 7 9 9 9 9 0 Univ Pennsylvania 14 13 13 9 9 0 Cornell 10 10 11 12 11 1 Johns Hopkins 10 10 9 9 11 2 Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill 13 13 13 12 11 1 Duke 14 15 15 14 14 0 Northwestern 18 15 17 14 14 0 Univ Wisconsin Madison 10 10 11 14 14 0 Univ Texas Austin 18 22 19 17 17 0 Brown 16 15 15 17 18 1 NYU 24 22 17 18 1 Rutgers 21 19 17 20 20 0 Univ Illinois Urbana Champaign 18 22 22 22 20 2 Univ Virginia 21 15 19 20 20 0 Indiana Univ Bloomington 17 19 19 22 23 1 Ohio State Univ 25 24 24 0 Univ Minnesota Twin Cities 23 19 22 24 24 0 Vanderbilt 26 24 2 Emory 25 25 28 27 1 MIT 28 27 1 Univ Cal Davis 28 27 1 CUNY Grad School & Univ Center 25 28 30 2 Georgetown 30 Rice University 30 Univ Cal San Diego 30 Univ Washington 24 26 30 4 Washington Univ 28 30 2 Office of the Provost Page 29 of 29 Institutional Research