Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Jacobs School and Computer Science Rank Highly in New US News Global Universities Ranking

US News and World Report has a new ranking out today: Best Global Universities Rankings.

 The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has done well in the engineering rankings.

Engineering at UC San Diego (Jacobs School of Engineering)
#20 in the world
#7 in the United States of America (USA)
#5 among public universities in the USA

Computer science was ranked separate from engineering, and computer science at UC San Diego did even better:

Computer Science at UC San Diego (Computer Science and Engineering Department)
#11 in the world (note: this has been updated: due to human error I originally reported #10)
#7 in the United States of America (USA)
#3 among public universities in the USA

US San Diego as a whole also did extremely well, coming in as the 18th best university in the world.


Here is a handy breakdown of the criteria used for the subject area rankings:

Ranking indicator 
Weight
Global research reputation
12.5%
Regional research reputation 
12.5%
Publications
12.5%
Normalized citation impact   
10%
Total citations 
10%
Number of highly cited papers
12.5%
Percentage of highly cited papers
10%
International collaboration 
10%
Number of Ph.D.s awarded
  5%
Number of Ph.D.s awarded per academic staff member
  5%



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