Some Characteristics Of Highly Ranked Programs In The U.S.News & World Report Ranking Of Engineering Programs In Institutions Without Doctoral Programs | Zendy

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Some Characteristics Of Highly Ranked Programs In The U.S.News & World Report Ranking Of Engineering Programs In Institutions Without Doctoral Programs

Author(s) -

James B. Farison

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--15351

Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , point (geometry) , set (abstract data type) , engineering education , computer science , artificial intelligence , engineering management , engineering , mathematics , geometry , programming language

Many prospective engineering students and engineering educators and the schools they serve are aware of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. A distinct set of U. S. News & World Report rankings is the ranking of the undergraduate engineering programs in institutions without doctoral programs in engineering. While many observers point out the subjective and variable nature of these rankings, many also wait eagerly for the next ranking. This paper reviews the procedure by which these rankings are obtained and gives special focus to the characteristics of those engineering programs that are highly ranked. Features such as age, size and nature of the institutions and of the engineering programs in those institutions are described. Some observations about the characteristics of highly ranked programs are offered, and some potential hypotheses about correlations between program characteristics and rankings are suggested.

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