US News Engineering Rankings

liuchuanfeng
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:43:25 +0000

1 Princeton U. (Electrical Engineering)
2 Cal Tech (Electrical Engineering)
3 Cornell U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
4 Rice U. (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
5 Stanford U. (Electrical Engineering)
6 Carnegie Mellon U. (Robotics)
7 UC - Santa Barbara (Computer Engineering)
8 Carnegie Mellon U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
9 U. Illinois - UC (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
10 Yale U. (Electrical Engineering)

This should be the real rank for EE, I don’t know why this is categorized on the FSP index as Computer Engineering rank and in the EE rank they didn’t include the top 2 Princeton and Caltech in it, anyways, I checked the detailed data, and both Computer engineering and Electrical Engineering use the exact same data. It’s probably because they feel bad leaving MIT out of the top 10 rank…jk, anyways, you can check it out yourself

[Chronicle Facts & Figures: Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index](http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&primary=5&secondary=49&bycat=Go)

Now you have Caltech, Princeton and Stanford in the picture and this seem to be more similar to the US news EE rank,

Regarding the US news, the engineering rank is biased in which it favors bigger school(total expenditure and total PHD awarded weight more than 21%) and the individual department rank is I think also a little biased since i suspect that “academic peers” will think bigger department with 20 good professors to be better than an equally good department with only 5 people in it.

Anyways, there are tons of amazing universities in US and I really think individuals should visit the universities because all of them has very distinctive style and character that might fit one person but not another.