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CWRU 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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