U.S. News gives top rankings to MIT graduate programs in engineering, business
MIT’s graduate program in engineering has once more placed at the top of U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the nation’s graduate programs. The Institute has held the No. 1 spot since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs. The MIT Sloan School of Management also placed highly, coming in as the No. 5 graduate program in business for the third year in a row. MIT’s graduate program in engineering was the only one to earn an overall score of 100. It was followed by Stanford University (87), the University of California at Berkeley (81), and Caltech (75). The U.S. News list also ranked individual engineering disciplines across universities; top honors went to MIT for aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, electrical/electronics/communications engineering (tied with Stanford and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering (tied with Stanford). MIT also received the No. 2 ranking in nuclear engineering and biomedical engineering (tied...