For immediate release: September 20, 2002
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CLEVELAND—Case Western Reserve University continues to be highly-ranked among the nation's premier universities. In the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of academic quality, CWRU rated 37th out of the country's top 50 doctoral institutions. That ranking is up one from last year, placing CWRU just below the University of Rochester and above such renowned institutions as Georgia Tech, Penn State University and the University of Illinois.

CWRU remains the only Ohio institution ranked in the top 50 national universities.

In its methodology, U.S. News & World Report considers 249 universities—private and public—that offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral degrees, and emphasize faculty research. According to the magazine, the U.S. News ranking system rests on "two pillars." It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and it is based on what the magazine calls "our nonpartisan view" of what matters in education. First, schools are categorized by mission, and in some cases, by region. Most of the data comes from the colleges and universities, although U.S. News says it "takes pains to ensure their accuracy." This year, 95 percent of the schools returned surveys.

As for CWRU's undergraduate programs, Weatherhead's undergraduate management program ranked 25th, tied with Arizona State, Georgetown, Michigan State, the University of Georgia and Wake Forest University. Case School of Engineering's undergraduate program ranked 31st, tied with Harvard, North Carolina State University, the University of California-Davis, the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado. The biomedical engineering program ranked fourth.

CWRU's graduate and professional programs continue to rank highly among its peer institutions, according to the magazine. The Case School of Engineering's biomedical engineering program ranked seventh nationally, while the entire CSE program was rated 44th in 2002 among 185 graduate engineering programs, tied with the University of Arizona. The School of Law ranked 50th among the nation's 175 accredited law schools in 2002, with reputational scores from academics and practitioners among the highest in the second of four tiers of schools. CWRU's program in health law ranked sixth.

The Weatherhead School of Management ranked 51st among the nation's 352 accredited MBA programs in 2002. The Executive MBA program ranked 13th nationally, and the nonprofit management program ranked eighth. The School of Medicine ranked 22nd among the nation's 125 accredited medical schools in 2002, tied with Northwestern, the University of North Carolina and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The school's family medicine program ranked eighth nationally. Among primary care schools, CWRU also ranked 22nd, tied with Dartmouth and UC-Davis.

Nursing and social work programs are not ranked on an annual basis. However, the latest rankings for nursing and social work came in 2000. At that time, the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences ranked eighth, tied with the University of Southern California. The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing ranked seventh nationally, tied with the University of Illinois-Chicago and Oregon Health Sciences University. The specialty program in gerontological nursing ranked 10th. For the third year in a row, Princeton University topped the list of the nation's premier universities.

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