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Engineering, education ranked in new graduate guide 12:05 a.m., March 31, 2006--The University of Delaware graduate program in chemical engineering remains among the nation's elite, according to rankings to be published in the forthcoming 2007 U.S. News & World Report newsstand book “America's Best Graduate Schools.” The chemical engineering graduate program is ranked ninth in the nation, tied with the University of California Santa Barbara. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology program was as the top of the list, followed by the California Institute of Technology, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Texas, UD and UC Santa Barbara. In other graduate rankings in the book, some of which will be included in the magazine, the School of Education is ranked 39th in the nation and the College of Engineering is ranked 42nd. "With 148 graduate programs and nearly 3,500 graduate students, the University of Delaware is among the nation's leading graduate institutions. The University community should be pleased by this national recognition of the quality of the graduate programs in education and engineering,” UD Provost Dan Rich said, adding, “The University has many other graduate programs that are recognized to be among the best in their fields but these disciplines were not included in this rating report." The College of Engineering is tied with Boston University, Case Western Reserve University, Dartmouth College and Iowa State University. It is just behind the University of California Irvine and just ahead of Arizona State University, Lehigh University, Rutgers and Vanderbilt University. The top four colleges of engineering were MIT, Stanford, the University of California Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology. "While it is truly gratifying to see the college ranking climb, and the confirmation of the strong program in chemical engineering, it is interesting that we are still relatively lower ranked by our peers than should be the case. We clearly need to work harder to tell those making these evaluations how good our programs really are,” Eric Kaler, Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, said. Kaler said the U.S. News & World Report rankings “are popular but not critical reviews of programs,” and added that “the ongoing National Research Council study of doctoral programs will be more definitive." The School of Education, which is in UD's College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy (CHEP), is tied in the rankings with Cornell University and the University of Missouri. It is rated just behind Temple University, the University of Florida, the University of Tennessee and Utah State University and ahead of the University of Illinois Chicago, Rutgers and the University of Colorado. The top five schools of education are Harvard, Columbia University, the University of California Los Angeles, Stanford and Vanderbilt. “CHEP and the School of Education have been working especially hard to increase program focus and student success in our 12 graduate programs during the past five years,” Chris Clark, director of the School of Education, said. “While the U.S. News & World Report ranking is only one indicator, we have come a very long way, from No. 68 in the year 2000 to No. 39 today. The lion's share of the credit goes to our faculty, whose integration of teaching, research and service prepares our graduates to make positive differences immediately in schools.” “America's Best Graduate Schools” will be available on newsstands on Monday, April 3. Some of the ranking information will appear in the April 10 edition of U.S. News & World Report, which will go on sale the same day. Additional rankings will be available on the magazine's web site [www.usnews.com]. |
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