US News Engineering Rankings

bruno123
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:53:42 +0000

Contrary to what Alexandre says, the FSP does take into account the “importance of those publications” since it includes metrics such as total number of paper citations per faculty. Of course, publications that are “not important” do not get many citations. Number of citations is the basis of impact factor indices and all other universally recognized measures of scholarly excellency.

Peer assessment on the other hand may be a good indicator if it is properly done. USN&WR’s peer survey in particular is rather poor, as it is limited to deans of colleges of engineering or deans of graduate studies. In many (though by no means all) cases, deans are senior faculty who are no longer very active in research and have mostly administrative jobs.

As for MIT, it is actually ranked # 5 in scholarly productivity for EE, so it ranks pretty well. UC Berkeley on the other hand ranks # 6. The fact that both do not show up in the Computer Engineering ranking may be because their academic output must have been probably counted under the CS category instead, see rankings below.

Top 10 programs in Computer Science (FSP Index)

Rice U. (Computer Science)
Stanford U. (Computer Science)
UC - Berkeley (Computer Science)
Carnegie Mellon U. (Computer Science)
Princeton U. (Computer Science)
Carnegie Mellon U. (Machine Learning & Statistics)
U. Pennsylvania (Computer and Information Science)
MIT (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Cal Tech (Computer Science)
UC - Los Angeles (Computer Science)

Top 10 programs in Electrical Engineering (FSP Index)

Rice U. (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Cornell U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
U. Illinois - UC (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Carnegie Mellon U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
MIT (Electrical Engineering)
UC - Berkeley (Electrical Engineering)
Duke U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Johns Hopkins U. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
UC - San Diego (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Purdue U. (Electrical Engineering)