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.
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.