High ratings for engineering, education

The University’s graduate program in chemical engineering remains among the nation’s elite, according to rankings published in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report newsstand book America’s Best Graduate Schools.

The chemical engineering graduate program is ranked ninth in the nation, tied with the University of California Santa Barbara. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology program was at the top of the list, followed by the California Institute of Technology, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Texas, UD and UC Santa Barbara.

In other graduate rankings in the book, some of which also are included in the magazine, the School of Education is ranked 39th in the nation and the College of Engineering is ranked 42nd.

“With 148 graduate programs and nearly 3,500 graduate students, the University of Delaware is among the nation’s leading graduate institutions. The University community should be pleased by this national recognition of the quality of the graduate programs in education and engineering,” UD Provost Dan Rich says.

“The University has many other graduate programs that are recognized to be among the best in their fields, but these disciplines were not included in this rating report.”

The School of Education, which is in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy (CHEP), is tied in the rankings with Cornell University and the University of Missouri. It is rated just behind Temple University, the University of Florida, the University of Tennessee and Utah State University and ahead of the University of Illinois Chicago, Rutgers and the University of Colorado.

The top five schools of education are listed as Harvard, Columbia University, the University of California Los Angeles, Stanford and Vanderbilt.

The College of Engineering is tied with Boston University, Case Western Reserve University, Dartmouth College and Iowa State University. It is just behind the University of California Irvine and just ahead of Arizona State, Lehigh, Rutgers and Vanderbilt universities.

The top four colleges of engineering were MIT, Stanford, the University of California Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology.