Engineering Program Rankings Methodology

software engineering

SAN JOSE STATE UNIV OFFERS MS IN SOFTWARE ENG HOW IS THE RANKING

about the transortation school ranking

i needed the ranking (1-100)about the top graduate schools in transortation engineering,plse can u help me out.

infromation technology

i needed some information about the top schools providing MS in computer science and information technology, your site is providing only with the top 10 colgs, plse can u help me out.

petroleum enginering rankings

i having been browsing us news, for 2009 petroleum engineering rankings, but i have not seen it any where on this site, infact it is not among the list of engineering disciplines. what's happening?

Tiers

What does the different tiers in Universities description mean? I am not getting how they all are divided in different tiers. Tier-1,2,3 & 4. What they all describes?

Meaning of N/A

I wanted to know that what exactly mean by 'N/A' in schools ranking..

Does it mean that school is not even eligible to enter in ranking list or that particular school has not participated in ranking system.??

Please guide me more on this...I am getting confused because of this...

schools left out

I'm just curious as to how some larger schools have no data available. Just as an example, Texas Tech has an engineering program that ranks up there along with the better ones in Texas. It doesn't deserve to be #1 but it does deserve to be included in the ranking at least.....

Guy Simha....Thank you

Right on.

unfair to smaller universities

I think many would agree this methodology favors bigger universities, Total Research Expenditures (.15) and Doctoral Degrees Awarded (.0625) combine for over 21% of total weight which really pushed bigger state schools like Georgia tech(No.4) and UIUC(No.5)'s rank up,

and universities like Caltech(No.7), Cornell(No.11) Harvard(No.18) and Princeton(No.18) are ranked much lower than they deserve because of their smaller total research expenditure and less doctoral degree awards every year due to their smaller size.

I agree that bigger school have certain advantage as having wider range of research activities going on, etc. But I believe smaller school also have advantage of closer collaboration between department, more focused research activities, etc.

I think one obvious fix is just drop these 2 factors' importance, give expenditure per faculty more weight than total expenditure. and i don't know why anyone care about how many PHD are awarded per year at any institute, this really has nothing to do with universities' quality.

I'm not a fan of Caltech and Ivy but this graduate engineering rank is just too biased against smaller institute.