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Berkeley Graduate Engineering holds number three ranking
Berkeley’s College of Engineering retained its number three
overall ranking in the 2005 U.S. News & World Report
Best Graduate Schools edition, behind frontrunners MIT and Stanford,
which also held onto their first- and second-place slots, respectively.
Of 10 specialties evaluated, Berkeley ranked first in four programs,
with civil repeating its first-place ranking of last year. In
computer engineering, Berkeley jumped from fourth to a first-place
tie with MIT and Stanford. The electrical/communications program
moved up from second to a first-place tie, also with MIT and Stanford.
Chemical engineering moved up from second last year to a first-place
tie with MIT and University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Also moving up were environmental engineering, from third to second
this year, and industrial, from fifth last year to a fourth-place
tie with Penn State, University Park. Materials slipped from fifth
to sixth, and mechanical slipped from second to third. The College’s
newest department, bioengineering, slipped off the top-ten ranking
altogether from ninth place last year.
Summary of top three ranked graduate schools in engineering
(U.S. News & World Report)
| Department |
MIT |
Stanford |
UC Berkeley |
| Biomedical/bioengineering |
8 |
NR |
12* |
| Chemical engineering** |
1* |
6* |
1* |
| Civil engineering |
5* |
3* |
1 |
| Computer engineering |
1* |
1* |
1* |
| Electrical/communications |
1* |
1* |
1* |
| Environmental engineering |
9 |
1 |
2* |
| Industrial/manufacturing |
NR |
6 |
4* |
| Materials engineering |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| Mechanical engineering |
1* |
1* |
3 |
| Overall |
1 |
2 |
3 |
This is the 17th year the magazine has ranked the nation’s
best graduate and professional schools and specialty programs
in engineering, business, education, fine arts, law, medicine,
and nursing. Criteria include quality as perceived by deans and
corporate recruiters, GRE scores of accepted students, ratio of
full-time students to full-time faculty, number of doctoral degrees
granted, externally funded research expenditures, and research
dollars per faculty member doing research. The specialty program
rankings are determined solely by assessments by department heads.
Undergraduate programs are ranked in a separate edition.
An independent national study following the rankings found that
six UC campuses—including Berkeley, UCLA, Irvine, Davis,
San Diego, and Santa Barbara—enroll more low-income students
than any other top public or private universities in the nation.
The study, by Tom Mortenson of Postsecondary Education Opportunity,
was based on Pell Grants, which are available to students from
families earning less than $35,000 annually. UCLA ranked first,
with 35.1 percent of its students receiving Pell Grants, followed
by UC Berkeley with 32.4 percent.
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