U.S. News and Word Report once again placed MIT's graduate engineering programs at the top of its annual rankings released today, a position the institute has held since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs.
MIT Sloan School of Management also ranked highly in the rankings released on April 9, taking the No. 5 spot for best graduate business programs.
In terms of engineering fields, MIT ranked first in six fields: Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering (tied with Stanford University and UC Berkeley), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. It also ranked second in Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering (tied with Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Stanford University) and Nuclear Engineering.
In the rankings for MBA specializations, MIT took first place in four areas: Business Analytics, Information Systems, Production/Operations, and Project Management (tied with Carnegie Mellon University). It took second place in Supply Chain/Logistics.
US News MIT bases its rankings of graduate schools in engineering and business administration on two types of data: reputation surveys of deans and other academic officials, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of the universities' faculty, research, and students. The magazine less frequently ranks graduate programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities based on reputation surveys alone. Of the 12 peer-reviewed fields ranked this year, MIT came in first in computer science.
