raneksin

ChemEng program at UCLA has been there for a while now...anyone know why it's still sitting at #24, hasn't even cracked the top 15?

flopsy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Chemical Engineering isn't a lucrative industry in SoCal.

levitt2

For your CS classes, did you ever use Codemate with your textbook? Because it's already used on USED books, is it worth buying brand new books just for the Codemate?

flopsy

Nope, never...
Did the CS department change the CS 31 textbook already?

Citan

I wonder if ANYONE actually uses the CDROMs that come with the textbooks...

flopsy

US News 2007 Rankings for Undergraduate Engineering

Best Engineering programs
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)

1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2. Stanford University (CA)
University of California–Berkeley *
4. California Institute of Technology
U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
6.Georgia Institute of Technology *
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
8.Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
10. Cornell University (NY)
11. Princeton University (NJ)
University of Texas–Austin *
13. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
14.. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Northwestern University (IL)
Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
17.Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
Virginia Tech *
19. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
Rice University (TX)
Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
Univ. of California–San Diego *
University of Washington *
25.Columbia Univesity (NY)
Duke University (NC)
North Carolina State U-Raleigh *
Univ. of Maryland–College Park *
Univ. of Southern California

We've actually moved up four spots this year -- not bad!
The rest of the 2007 engineering rankings will be posted when they become available.

Citan

I think with the new specialites and stuff we can move higher

misterr

i didn't know usc engineering was strong. for graduate rankings, usc viterbi is ranked higher than caltech.

W-T-F

flopsy

The US News graduate engineering ranking of USC remains an isolated phenomenon. Viterbi has been artificially elevated due to its extraordinary research expenditures (surpassing Caltech and UCLA), measured both in raw dollars and in dollars per faculty member. However, HSSEAS surpasses Viterbi in almost every other ranking criteria (peer assessment score, recruiter assessment score, admission rate, average GRE Quantitative score), along with peer institutions such as Cornell and UCSD which also share better reputations than USC. Luckily, though, US News is becoming aware of the Viterbi anomaly; USC has tumbled from its apogee of 6th in 2003 to 9th in 2007, while UCLA has conversely climbed from 17th in 2003 to 15th in 2007. It's no wonder that UCLA nevertheless outranks USC in undergraduate engineering -- research dollars don't get factored into the rankings.

flopsy

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Electrical / Electronic / Communications
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)

1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. University of California–Berkeley *
4. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
5. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
6. Georgia Institute of Technology *
7. California Institute of Technology
8. Cornell University (NY)
9. Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
10. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
11. University of Texas–Austin *
12. Princeton University (NJ)
13. Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
14. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
15. Rice University (TX)
16. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
Univ. of Southern California
18. Northwestern University (IL)
19. Duke University (NC)
Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
Univ. of California–San Diego *
University of Washington *
Virginia Tech *
24. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
Univ. of Maryland–College Park *
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
27. Johns Hopkins University (MD)

flopsy

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Mechanical
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)

1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2. University of California–Berkeley *
3. Stanford University (CA)
4. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
5. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
6. Georgia Institute of Technology *
7. Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
8. Cornell University (NY)
9. California Institute of Technology
10. University of Texas–Austin *
11. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
12. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
13. Princeton University (NJ)
14. Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
15. Virginia Tech *
16. Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
17. Northwestern University (IL)
18. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
19. Univ. of California–San Diego *
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
21. Ohio State University–Columbus *
22. Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
24. Univ. of Southern California
Duke University (NC)

Citan

seems like Electrical is the highest ranked...or is it Aerospace?

ucsd_ucla_dad

flopsy:

Any undergrad CS or CSE rankings?

flopsy

US News doesn't include Computer Science in its undergraduate rankings since they categorize it as a science rather than as an engineering discipline; thus, their only Computer Science rankings are at the graduate level (UCLA moved up to 13th this year). However, it posts rankings of undergraduate Computer Engineering departments, which I hope to find soon.

Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Civil
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)

1. U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
2. University of California–Berkeley *
3. Georgia Institute of Technology *
4. University of Texas–Austin *
Stanford University (CA)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
7. Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
9. Cornell University (NY)
10. Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *
11. Virginia Tech *
12. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
13. Northwestern University (IL)
14. Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
15. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *
16. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
17. California Institute of Technology
University of Washington *
19. University of Colorado–Boulder *
Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities *
21. Univ. of Southern California
Princeton University (NJ)
Duke University (NC)
24. University of Florida *
Michigan State University *
Clemson University (SC)*

UCLA has now fallen out of the Top 25 in undergraduate Civil Engineering.

Citan

that's interesting. I wonder why