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The University of Utah’s College of Engineering, the state’s premier engineering school, is also becoming one of the country’s top engineering institutions.

The College’s graduate school was ranked 51st out of more than 215 Ph.D.-granting American colleges, according to the new 2017 U.S. News & World Report‘s “Best Graduate Schools” survey, released Wednesday, March 16. That is up from 56th place the year before and is the College’s highest ranking. This is the fourth-largest improvement by any engineering college in rankings this year and the sixth-largest improvement since 2010.

“We are pleased to see the College of Engineering’s growth in quality, size and research impact being recognized in the U.S. News rankings,” said Richard B. Brown, dean of the U’s College of Engineering. “The College provides premier engineering and computer science graduates to Utah’s high tech industry and is efficient at translating research results into commercial products, having spun out 53 startup companies since 2006.”

The University of Utah College of Engineering’s graduate school was ranked 51st out of more than 215 Ph.D.-granting American colleges, according to the new 2017 U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate Schools” survey, released Wednesday, March 16.

The rankings are based on a number of factors including assessments by other engineering deans as well as company recruiters, graduate entrance exams, acceptance rates, faculty resources, student-faculty ratio, and research activity and expenditures.

Read the full press release at the U News Center.