UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering Ranks at 9th among Elite World Universities

November 3, 2009

By Pat JaCoby

The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the ninth best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) in engineering are based on academic and research performance. Indicators considered include number of researchers highly cited for their work in engineering, computer science and materials science; articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded; percentage of articles by faculty published in top-tier journals, and total engineering-related research expenditures.

A total 1,000 international institutions were scanned, and the top 100 engineering institutions were ranked. All of the top 10 universities for engineering/technology and the computer sciences are based in the United States.

The top 10, ranked consecutively, include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Stanford University; University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Texas, Austin; Georgia Institute of Technology; UC San Diego, and Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

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