Rutgers Ranked #72 in latest US News Survey

[rutgersal]

#1 Princeton
#4 Columbia
#12 Northwestern
#15 Cornell
#18 Notre Dame
#21 Georgetown
#29 University of Michigan
#30 Boston College
#32 NYU
#41 University of Illinois
#41 University of Wisconsin
#47 Lehigh
#47 Penn State
#47 University of Florida
#51 University of Miami
#52 Ohio State
#57 Maryland
#57 UConn
#61 Syracuse
#61 Purdue
#66 University of Pittsburgh
#66 Fordham
#72 Rutgers
#75 University of Indiana
#75 Michigan State University
#82 University of Iowa
#103 University of Nebraska

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

 

[RutgersRaRa]

Minnesota is #69, which completes the B1G picture. 12 of the 14 B1G schools are in the top 75 universities, and all of the schools are in the top 103 in the country.

When I first read the thread title I thought we had jumped 10 spots from pre-season #82 to #72 in football, which made me laugh that Rutgers-gets-no-respect kind of laugh.

 

[LevaosLectures]

We've always done poorly is USNWR. It is what it is.

 

[pmvon]

How UConn continues to move up and ahead of RU is a concern. What are they doing different?.

 

[rutgersal]

How UConn continues to move up and ahead of RU is a concern. What are they doing different?.

their alumni are donating, is my quick guess.

 

[LevaosLectures]

Northeastern is in the Top 50? Wtf. It was an overpriced commuter college when I was a senior in hs.

 

[pmvon]

RU ranked #55 on top Global Universities by USNWR. That must be a more objective measure.

 

[srru86]

How UConn continues to move up and ahead of RU is a concern. What are they doing different?.

Between 1988 and 2014 NJ spent $0 dollars on capital improvement to the campus. Recent bond fund is about $450 million for all of RU including Camden & Newark. During the same period the State of Connecticut has given UConn about $3.5 Billion and effectively built a new town in Storrs.

Ya get what ya pay for.

 

[ArminRU]

Instead of the academics complaining about athletics, maybe they should focus on their part.

 

[pmvon]

Between 1988 and 2014 NJ spent $0 dollars on capital improvement to the campus. Recent bond fund is about $450 million for all of RU including Camden & Newark. During the same period the State of Connecticut has given UConn about $3.5 Billion and effectively built new town in Storrs.

Ya get what ya pay for.

Oh

 

[brista21]

We always do poorly in USNWR, but in every more genuinely objective measure out there we do very, very well. I put zero stock in to these rankings, but unfortunately I'm not in the majority.

And yes UConn has had the state invest billions into their campus infrastructure and programs. If NJ did even half of what CT did we'd soar up the USNWR rankings too.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Rutgers is ranked in the 30's and 20's in nearly all other lists.

 

[srru86]

Instead of the academics complaining about athletics, maybe they should focus on their part.

Yes, and the Nutmeg State paid for their Stadium also. Now it is in East Hartford, but that is one more chunk of debt they don't have top pay for out of current operating funds.

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

Did RU go up this year? Thought the medical school merger would propel RU up the ladder.

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

Northeastern is in the Top 50? Wtf. It was an overpriced commuter college when I was a senior in hs.

For whatever reason Northeastern has become a very 'hot college" for HS seniors in the last few years. Another "hot" school is Wake Forest.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Did RU go up this year? Thought the medical school merger would propel RU up the ladder.

It did on all other lists. but USNEWS does not count any graduate programs or research.

So Rutgers is ranked #72 for undergrad ONLY.

Even in their research list, all of the RBHS schools are counted separately, which is weird.

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

USNWR = UConn Football of ratings.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Doesn't appear to be an accurate survey.

Lehigh and Fordham that high, say what?

 

[LevaosLectures]

Instead of the academics complaining about athletics, maybe they should focus on their part.

In theists that measure the professors actually do (research, grants, and publishing), Rutgers does quite well.

 

[S_Janowski]

We should not be that far behind Maryland and PSU. Rutgers needs to find a way to cheat the system and move up because as much bogus this survey is people do notice it.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

A story in the Washington Post today points out that the USNWR ratings are significantly biased toward private schools at the expense of public universities. In their rating system size is a disadvantage. So is research, grad schools, and community service.

Basically the USNWR ratings are bogus.

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

MD (coming on very strong academically in the last 10 years) and PSU not only attract a large amount of in state students, but they both attract a large number of applications from upper middle class out of state kids, many of whom are decent students. That helps them both financially (paying full freight, donations from parents, etc.) and national perception wise. Until we get a larger % of in state and out of state upper middle class kids (and the financial benefits they bring) , we will continue to trail these schools and similar ones in all undergrad surveys. The stat in the post below that RU is #10 in the country in first years getting Pell Grants is exactly my point. We are high in that area but we don't get the kids at the other end of the economic spectrum in high enough numbers.

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

In theists that measure the professors actually do (research, grants, and publishing), Rutgers does quite well.

That's likely very true, but virtually no undergrads look at that in selecting a college so it doesn't help us in our goal to attract the best and the brightest.

 

[RUforlife]

Doesn't appear to be an accurate survey.

Lehigh and Fordham that high, say what?

Really, where have you been? Lehigh has been a top 50 school since the ratings started in the 80s. They have a 1.25 billion dollar endowment and their engineering and business schools are highly respected.

 

[ru8081]

This is a disgrace. I put most of the blame on the NJ state government. This is bi-partisan. Next I'd put the blame on the school administration for not bringing this to the attention of NJ voters.

 

[RUInsanity]

That's likely very true, but virtually no undergrads look at that in selecting a college so it doesn't help us in our goal to attract the best and the brightest.

Smart Undergrads look at fields of study, majors, cost, class size, housing options, student life etc. when evaluating a school. An overall rating by USNWR really tells them very little of what they need to know when making a choice.

 

[sct1111]

Minnesota is #69, which completes the B1G picture. 12 of the 14 B1G schools are in the top 75 universities, and all of the schools are in the top 103 in the country.

When I first read the thread title I thought we had jumped 10 spots from pre-season #82 to #72 in football, which made me laugh that Rutgers-gets-no-respect kind of laugh.

Minnesota at 69 is pretty ridiculous too.

It's just strange seeing Rutgers this far behind out peers in this ranking. Syracuse and Uconn? Really?

I honestly think it all has to do with money. Rutgers gets neither support from the state nor support from private entities.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

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# 1 public national university
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# 1 public national university, freshman retention rate
# 1 public university, undergraduate engineering
# 2 public university, undergraduate business

U.S. News & World Report: 15 in the Top 10, Best Graduate Schools
# 1 in the nation, Women's History
# 2 in the nation, School Library Media
# 6 in the nation, Library and Information Studies; Library Services for Children and Youth; English–Gender and Literature; Sociology of Culture
# 7 in the nation, Criminology; Library Information Systems
# 8 in the nation, Digital Librarianship; Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics; History–African-American; Physician Assistant
# 9 in the nation, English–18th through 20th Century British Literature; Math–Logic; Fine Arts–Printmaking

Nearly 50 Rutgers University–New Brunswick graduate programs, departments, or schools rank in the U.S. News & World Report top 11 to 50. A sampling includes:

Business: Supply Chain Logistics (# 11) (Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick)
Fine Arts: Painting/Drawing (# 13)
Modern U.S. History (# 14)
Physics: Condensed Matter (# 15)
Physician Assistant (# 16)
English (# 17)
Industrial Engineering (# 19)
History (# 20)
Computer Science: Theory (# 21)
Math (# 23)
Nursing (# 25)
Pharmacy (# 26)
Social Work (# 26)
Fine Arts (# 27)
Aerospace Engineering (# 28)
Sociology (# 28)
Physics (# 29)
Public Health (# 31)

Money: Best Colleges
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Kiplinger: Best Values in Public Colleges
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The 30 best college values in the mid-Atlantic
# 8 in the mid-Atlantic, best college values, public colleges

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# 30 in the nation

Business Insider: The 104 Smartest Public Colleges in America
# 43 in the nation

U.S. News & World Report: Schools Producing the Most Fortune 500 CEOs
# 10 in the nation, with 11 graduates

LinkedIn: University Rankings Based on Career Outcomes
# 13 in the nation, Media Professionals
# 16 in the nation, Marketers
# 22 in the nation, Finance Professionals

PayScale Colllege Salary Report: Colleges by Salary Potential
# 12 in the nation, Best Schools for Humanities Majors
# 14 in the nation, Best Schools for Physical and Life Sciences Majors
# 17 in the nation, Best Schools for Computer Science Majors
# 26 in the nation, Best Schools for Communications and Journalism Majors
# 28 in the nation, Best Schools for Social Sciences Majors

The Chronicle of Higher Education
# 10 in the nation, top producers of U.S. Fulbright students. The top 10: Harvard, University of Michigan, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of California–Berkeley, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers

Military Times Edge: Best for Vets
# 10 in the nation

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Academic Ranking of World Universities
# 64 in the world
# 39 in the nation
# 44 in the world, # 22 in the nation (Mathematics)
# 45 in the world, # 27 in the nation (Physics)
Top 75 in the world: Computer Science, Economics, Life and Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Science
Top 100 in the world: Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy

Center for World University Rankings (Saudi Arabia)
# 50 in the world
# 33 in the nation
# 17 public university in the nation

Times Higher Education (U.K.) World University Rankings
Top 100 universities in the world (World Reputation Rankings)
# 32 in the world (arts and humanities)
# 16 in the nation (arts and humanities)

U.S. News & World Report: Best Global Universities
# 55 in the world
# 36 in the nation
Top 100 in the world: Agricultural Sciences, Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Business, Geosciences, Mathematics, Microbiology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, Social Sciences and Public Health, Space Science

Emerging: Global Employability University Ranking (France and Germany)
Top 100 in the world
# 27 in the nation
# 6 public university in the nation

Nature: The Top 100 Most-Cited Research Papers of All Time
# 74 Joachim Messing, Gene, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1985, pages 103–119, "Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors"
# 92 Helen Berman, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2000, pages 235–242, "The Protein Data Bank"

U.S. News & World Report: Diversity
Among all national universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Rutgers University–New Brunswick is ranked 30th in diversity, and among AAU public flagship institutions in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, is topped in diversity only by University of California schools.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education
# 18 in the nation, degrees conferred to minority undergraduates across all disciplines

Association of American Medical Colleges
# 4 in the nation, supplying African-American applicants to U.S. medical schools

Campus Pride Index: LGBTQ-Friendly Campus Climate
Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
# 10 among the top 100 schools for the percentage of first-year undergraduates receiving Pell grants

Philosophical Gourmet Report: Quality and Reputation of Philosophy Faculty
# 2 in the United States overall
# 3 in the English-speaking world overall
# 1 in the English-speaking world, Epistemology
# 2 in the English-speaking world, Philosophy of Mind
Top 4 in the English-speaking world: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Chemical & Engineering News
# 1 in the nation, federal funding for research in chemistry

American Mathematical Society
# 5 in the world for number of mathematicians in the society's inaugural class of fellows

Planetizen: Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs
# 6 in the nation, Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Times Higher Education (U.K.)
# 4 in the world among oceanographic institutions

Advanced Trading Magazine
In top 10 in the nation among programs in quantitative finance, MS in Mathematical Finance

Wall Street Journal
# 21 in the nation, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 3 among nation's undergraduate business programs, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 8 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, Return on Investment
# 21 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, World's Best Executive MBA Programs

Financial Times
Top 100 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 33 in the world, career progress, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 20 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick

USA Today: Athletic and Academic Success
# 8 in the nation, Top Division I Schools for Women's Basketball

Backstage Magazine
Dance Off USA: Five College Dance Programs Worth Leaping Into, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts
5 Tried-and-True Acting Colleges, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
The Top 25 Drama Schools in the World, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Huffington Post
Among "The 10 MFA Programs That Give You the Most Bang For Your Buck," Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

American Parliamentary Debate Association
# 8 in the nation, College of the Year. Top 10 in order: Yale, Brandeis, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brown, William and Mary, Rutgers, Bates, Columbia
# 4 in the nation, Team of the Year
# 5 and # 7 in the nation, Speaker of the Year

NCAA
Top 10 percent. Academic Progress Rate for football players. Only state university among Football Bowl Subdivision programs to finish in the top 10 percent for seven consecutive years.

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
# 2 in the nation, Solar Photovoltaic Installations at U.S. Campuses

Recyclemania
Gorilla Prize (schools that recycle the highest gross tonnage of combined paper, cardboard, and bottle and cans regardless of campus population):
# 1 in the nation, 9th consecutive year

TopManagementDegrees.Com
# 19 in the world, 50 Most Beautiful Business Schools, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, 100 Rock (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

Smart Undergrads look at fields of study, majors, cost, class size, housing options, student life etc. when evaluating a school. An overall rating by USNWR really tells them very little of what they need to know when making a choice.

I agree with you - I view USNWR ratings the same way I view star ratings - a commercial enterprise trying to do something commercial with no sanctions for errors.

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

Minnesota at 69 is pretty ridiculous too.

It's just strange seeing Rutgers this far behind out peers in this ranking. Syracuse and Uconn? Really?

I honestly think it all has to do with money. Rutgers gets neither support from the state nor support from private entities.

Correct it has 1000% to do with money. Full stop. We have little of it in disposable form - little from the state, little from alums.

 

[FlintTown]

Correct it has 1000% to do with money. Full stop. We have little of it in disposable form - little from the state, little from alums.

That's on the president.

 

[coldsprings]

Doesn't appear to be an accurate survey.

Lehigh and Fordham that high, say what?

The US News ranking are a business. They literally sell to schools the right to use the ranking in promo materials. Would you trust Consumer Reports if they sold the right to use their ratings? Exactly!

 

[sct1111]

That's on the president.

It's half on the state and half on the inability for Rutgers to get corporations to add to the endowment.

Johnson and Johnson is the largest Pharmaceutical company in the history of the world and it's world headquarters are literally on the College Ave campus.

 

[CuredbywinningRU]

That's on the president.

It''s only partly on the President. It's not his fault that forever few of the movers and shakers in NJ and those with money have sent their kids to Rutgers. The fact that there has not been a governor of NJ who went to RU undergrad since the 19th C tells you all you need to know and that state of affairs and its progeny are not Barchi's fault.

 

[e5fdny]

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
Top 30 Public National Universities

Forbes: America's Top Colleges
Top 30 Public Colleges

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
NYC/NJ Metropolitan Region
# 1 public national university
# 1 public national university, high school counselor rankings
# 1 public national university, freshman retention rate
# 1 public university, undergraduate engineering
# 2 public university, undergraduate business

U.S. News & World Report: 15 in the Top 10, Best Graduate Schools
# 1 in the nation, Women's History
# 2 in the nation, School Library Media
# 6 in the nation, Library and Information Studies; Library Services for Children and Youth; English–Gender and Literature; Sociology of Culture
# 7 in the nation, Criminology; Library Information Systems
# 8 in the nation, Digital Librarianship; Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics; History–African-American; Physician Assistant
# 9 in the nation, English–18th through 20th Century British Literature; Math–Logic; Fine Arts–Printmaking

Nearly 50 Rutgers University–New Brunswick graduate programs, departments, or schools rank in the U.S. News & World Report top 11 to 50. A sampling includes:

Business: Supply Chain Logistics (# 11) (Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick)
Fine Arts: Painting/Drawing (# 13)
Modern U.S. History (# 14)
Physics: Condensed Matter (# 15)
Physician Assistant (# 16)
English (# 17)
Industrial Engineering (# 19)
History (# 20)
Computer Science: Theory (# 21)
Math (# 23)
Nursing (# 25)
Pharmacy (# 26)
Social Work (# 26)
Fine Arts (# 27)
Aerospace Engineering (# 28)
Sociology (# 28)
Physics (# 29)
Public Health (# 31)

Money: Best Colleges
50 Best Public Colleges

Kiplinger: Best Values in Public Colleges
The 100 top values in public colleges and universities
The 30 best college values in the mid-Atlantic
# 8 in the mid-Atlantic, best college values, public colleges

The Business Journals: Rankings of U.S. Public Colleges
# 30 in the nation

Business Insider: The 104 Smartest Public Colleges in America
# 43 in the nation

U.S. News & World Report: Schools Producing the Most Fortune 500 CEOs
# 10 in the nation, with 11 graduates

LinkedIn: University Rankings Based on Career Outcomes
# 13 in the nation, Media Professionals
# 16 in the nation, Marketers
# 22 in the nation, Finance Professionals

PayScale Colllege Salary Report: Colleges by Salary Potential
# 12 in the nation, Best Schools for Humanities Majors
# 14 in the nation, Best Schools for Physical and Life Sciences Majors
# 17 in the nation, Best Schools for Computer Science Majors
# 26 in the nation, Best Schools for Communications and Journalism Majors
# 28 in the nation, Best Schools for Social Sciences Majors

The Chronicle of Higher Education
# 10 in the nation, top producers of U.S. Fulbright students. The top 10: Harvard, University of Michigan, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of California–Berkeley, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers

Military Times Edge: Best for Vets
# 10 in the nation

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Academic Ranking of World Universities
# 64 in the world
# 39 in the nation
# 44 in the world, # 22 in the nation (Mathematics)
# 45 in the world, # 27 in the nation (Physics)
Top 75 in the world: Computer Science, Economics, Life and Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Science
Top 100 in the world: Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy

Center for World University Rankings (Saudi Arabia)
# 50 in the world
# 33 in the nation
# 17 public university in the nation

Times Higher Education (U.K.) World University Rankings
Top 100 universities in the world (World Reputation Rankings)
# 32 in the world (arts and humanities)
# 16 in the nation (arts and humanities)

U.S. News & World Report: Best Global Universities
# 55 in the world
# 36 in the nation
Top 100 in the world: Agricultural Sciences, Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Business, Geosciences, Mathematics, Microbiology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, Social Sciences and Public Health, Space Science

Emerging: Global Employability University Ranking (France and Germany)
Top 100 in the world
# 27 in the nation
# 6 public university in the nation

Nature: The Top 100 Most-Cited Research Papers of All Time
# 74 Joachim Messing, Gene, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1985, pages 103–119, "Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors"
# 92 Helen Berman, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2000, pages 235–242, "The Protein Data Bank"

U.S. News & World Report: Diversity
Among all national universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Rutgers University–New Brunswick is ranked 30th in diversity, and among AAU public flagship institutions in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, is topped in diversity only by University of California schools.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education
# 18 in the nation, degrees conferred to minority undergraduates across all disciplines

Association of American Medical Colleges
# 4 in the nation, supplying African-American applicants to U.S. medical schools

Campus Pride Index: LGBTQ-Friendly Campus Climate
Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
# 10 among the top 100 schools for the percentage of first-year undergraduates receiving Pell grants

Philosophical Gourmet Report: Quality and Reputation of Philosophy Faculty
# 2 in the United States overall
# 3 in the English-speaking world overall
# 1 in the English-speaking world, Epistemology
# 2 in the English-speaking world, Philosophy of Mind
Top 4 in the English-speaking world: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Chemical & Engineering News
# 1 in the nation, federal funding for research in chemistry

American Mathematical Society
# 5 in the world for number of mathematicians in the society's inaugural class of fellows

Planetizen: Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs
# 6 in the nation, Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Times Higher Education (U.K.)
# 4 in the world among oceanographic institutions

Advanced Trading Magazine
In top 10 in the nation among programs in quantitative finance, MS in Mathematical Finance

Wall Street Journal
# 21 in the nation, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 3 among nation's undergraduate business programs, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 8 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, Return on Investment
# 21 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, World's Best Executive MBA Programs

Financial Times
Top 100 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 33 in the world, career progress, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 20 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick

USA Today: Athletic and Academic Success
# 8 in the nation, Top Division I Schools for Women's Basketball

Backstage Magazine
Dance Off USA: Five College Dance Programs Worth Leaping Into, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts
5 Tried-and-True Acting Colleges, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
The Top 25 Drama Schools in the World, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Huffington Post
Among "The 10 MFA Programs That Give You the Most Bang For Your Buck," Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

American Parliamentary Debate Association
# 8 in the nation, College of the Year. Top 10 in order: Yale, Brandeis, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brown, William and Mary, Rutgers, Bates, Columbia
# 4 in the nation, Team of the Year
# 5 and # 7 in the nation, Speaker of the Year

NCAA
Top 10 percent. Academic Progress Rate for football players. Only state university among Football Bowl Subdivision programs to finish in the top 10 percent for seven consecutive years.

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
# 2 in the nation, Solar Photovoltaic Installations at U.S. Campuses

Recyclemania
Gorilla Prize (schools that recycle the highest gross tonnage of combined paper, cardboard, and bottle and cans regardless of campus population):
# 1 in the nation, 9th consecutive year

TopManagementDegrees.Com
# 19 in the world, 50 Most Beautiful Business Schools, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, 100 Rock (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)

This post is the equivalent of Mickey Mantle's shot off the façade in the old Yankee Stadium.

Nice work Scarlet_Scourge!

 

[NJBorn]

This post is the equivalent of Mickey Mantle's shot off the façade in the old Yankee Stadium.

Nice work Scarlet_Scourge!

Unless you read it. Best philosophy! Best National Public University in NY metro (are we competing with SUNY?)

 

[NotInRHouse]

Incoming class was 15% OOS this year which is way better but needs to get better.

Also, UConn has all but admitted cheating at the rankings.

 

[jonS]

Northeastern is in the Top 50? Wtf. It was an overpriced commuter college when I was a senior in hs.

I live in the Boston area and the Northeastern leadership made a determined effort to rise up in the USNMR rankings. Also Northeastern has a very successful internship program with business community.... Rutgers for so long took a holier than thou attitude and then saw its ranking continue to fall. That being said , with research dollars added due to the med school merger and Big Ten membership, Rutgers ranking should rise. Nevertheless, Rutgers needs to reduce the size of his incoming class , become more selective , and continue to solicit alumni donations and increase its endowment, all significant factors in the rankings.

 

[LevaosLectures]

I live in the Boston area and the Northeastern leadership made a determined effort to rise up in the USNMR rankings. Also Northeastern has a very successful internship program with business community.... Rutgers for so long took a holier than thou attitude and then saw its ranking continue to fall. That being said , with research dollars added due to the med school merger and Big Ten membership, Rutgers ranking should rise. Nevertheless, Rutgers needs to reduce the size of his incoming class , become more selective , and continue to solicit alumni donations and increase its endowment, all significant factors in the rankings.

I attended and taught at BU and I'm not buying it. Every student I ever met from Northeastern was a shmuck. I'm sticking to my story.

 

[Leonard23]

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
Top 30 Public National Universities

Forbes: America's Top Colleges
Top 30 Public Colleges

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
NYC/NJ Metropolitan Region
# 1 public national university
# 1 public national university, high school counselor rankings
# 1 public national university, freshman retention rate
# 1 public university, undergraduate engineering
# 2 public university, undergraduate business

U.S. News & World Report: 15 in the Top 10, Best Graduate Schools
# 1 in the nation, Women's History
# 2 in the nation, School Library Media
# 6 in the nation, Library and Information Studies; Library Services for Children and Youth; English–Gender and Literature; Sociology of Culture
# 7 in the nation, Criminology; Library Information Systems
# 8 in the nation, Digital Librarianship; Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics; History–African-American; Physician Assistant
# 9 in the nation, English–18th through 20th Century British Literature; Math–Logic; Fine Arts–Printmaking

Nearly 50 Rutgers University–New Brunswick graduate programs, departments, or schools rank in the U.S. News & World Report top 11 to 50. A sampling includes:

Business: Supply Chain Logistics (# 11) (Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick)
Fine Arts: Painting/Drawing (# 13)
Modern U.S. History (# 14)
Physics: Condensed Matter (# 15)
Physician Assistant (# 16)
English (# 17)
Industrial Engineering (# 19)
History (# 20)
Computer Science: Theory (# 21)
Math (# 23)
Nursing (# 25)
Pharmacy (# 26)
Social Work (# 26)
Fine Arts (# 27)
Aerospace Engineering (# 28)
Sociology (# 28)
Physics (# 29)
Public Health (# 31)

Money: Best Colleges
50 Best Public Colleges

Kiplinger: Best Values in Public Colleges
The 100 top values in public colleges and universities
The 30 best college values in the mid-Atlantic
# 8 in the mid-Atlantic, best college values, public colleges

The Business Journals: Rankings of U.S. Public Colleges
# 30 in the nation

Business Insider: The 104 Smartest Public Colleges in America
# 43 in the nation

U.S. News & World Report: Schools Producing the Most Fortune 500 CEOs
# 10 in the nation, with 11 graduates

LinkedIn: University Rankings Based on Career Outcomes
# 13 in the nation, Media Professionals
# 16 in the nation, Marketers
# 22 in the nation, Finance Professionals

PayScale Colllege Salary Report: Colleges by Salary Potential
# 12 in the nation, Best Schools for Humanities Majors
# 14 in the nation, Best Schools for Physical and Life Sciences Majors
# 17 in the nation, Best Schools for Computer Science Majors
# 26 in the nation, Best Schools for Communications and Journalism Majors
# 28 in the nation, Best Schools for Social Sciences Majors

The Chronicle of Higher Education
# 10 in the nation, top producers of U.S. Fulbright students. The top 10: Harvard, University of Michigan, Northwestern, University of Chicago, University of California–Berkeley, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers

Military Times Edge: Best for Vets
# 10 in the nation

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Academic Ranking of World Universities
# 64 in the world
# 39 in the nation
# 44 in the world, # 22 in the nation (Mathematics)
# 45 in the world, # 27 in the nation (Physics)
Top 75 in the world: Computer Science, Economics, Life and Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social Science
Top 100 in the world: Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy

Center for World University Rankings (Saudi Arabia)
# 50 in the world
# 33 in the nation
# 17 public university in the nation

Times Higher Education (U.K.) World University Rankings
Top 100 universities in the world (World Reputation Rankings)
# 32 in the world (arts and humanities)
# 16 in the nation (arts and humanities)

U.S. News & World Report: Best Global Universities
# 55 in the world
# 36 in the nation
Top 100 in the world: Agricultural Sciences, Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Business, Geosciences, Mathematics, Microbiology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physics, Social Sciences and Public Health, Space Science

Emerging: Global Employability University Ranking (France and Germany)
Top 100 in the world
# 27 in the nation
# 6 public university in the nation

Nature: The Top 100 Most-Cited Research Papers of All Time
# 74 Joachim Messing, Gene, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1985, pages 103–119, "Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors"
# 92 Helen Berman, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2000, pages 235–242, "The Protein Data Bank"

U.S. News & World Report: Diversity
Among all national universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Rutgers University–New Brunswick is ranked 30th in diversity, and among AAU public flagship institutions in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, is topped in diversity only by University of California schools.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education
# 18 in the nation, degrees conferred to minority undergraduates across all disciplines

Association of American Medical Colleges
# 4 in the nation, supplying African-American applicants to U.S. medical schools

Campus Pride Index: LGBTQ-Friendly Campus Climate
Top 25 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities

U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges
# 10 among the top 100 schools for the percentage of first-year undergraduates receiving Pell grants

Philosophical Gourmet Report: Quality and Reputation of Philosophy Faculty
# 2 in the United States overall
# 3 in the English-speaking world overall
# 1 in the English-speaking world, Epistemology
# 2 in the English-speaking world, Philosophy of Mind
Top 4 in the English-speaking world: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Chemical & Engineering News
# 1 in the nation, federal funding for research in chemistry

American Mathematical Society
# 5 in the world for number of mathematicians in the society's inaugural class of fellows

Planetizen: Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs
# 6 in the nation, Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Times Higher Education (U.K.)
# 4 in the world among oceanographic institutions

Advanced Trading Magazine
In top 10 in the nation among programs in quantitative finance, MS in Mathematical Finance

Wall Street Journal
# 21 in the nation, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 3 among nation's undergraduate business programs, corporate recruiter pick for best graduates
# 8 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, Return on Investment
# 21 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, World's Best Executive MBA Programs

Financial Times
Top 100 in the world, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 33 in the world, career progress, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
# 20 in the nation, Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick

USA Today: Athletic and Academic Success
# 8 in the nation, Top Division I Schools for Women's Basketball

Backstage Magazine
Dance Off USA: Five College Dance Programs Worth Leaping Into, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts
5 Tried-and-True Acting Colleges, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
The Top 25 Drama Schools in the World, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Hollywood Reporter
25 Best Drama Schools for a Master of Fine Arts, Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

Huffington Post
Among "The 10 MFA Programs That Give You the Most Bang For Your Buck," Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts

American Parliamentary Debate Association
# 8 in the nation, College of the Year. Top 10 in order: Yale, Brandeis, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brown, William and Mary, Rutgers, Bates, Columbia
# 4 in the nation, Team of the Year
# 5 and # 7 in the nation, Speaker of the Year

NCAA
Top 10 percent. Academic Progress Rate for football players. Only state university among Football Bowl Subdivision programs to finish in the top 10 percent for seven consecutive years.

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
# 2 in the nation, Solar Photovoltaic Installations at U.S. Campuses

Recyclemania
Gorilla Prize (schools that recycle the highest gross tonnage of combined paper, cardboard, and bottle and cans regardless of campus population):
# 1 in the nation, 9th consecutive year

TopManagementDegrees.Com
# 19 in the world, 50 Most Beautiful Business Schools, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, 100 Rock (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)

These are all nice but we have to figure out how to move up in USNWR rankings. 72 is not good. In 1996, we were 45 overall & the 12th highest public university. 8 years later in 2004 we fell to 58 overall. 19 years later we've plummeted to 72. We should be in the 45-55/60 range. aTm seems to have had a similar slide from 48 in 1997 & as late as 2002 to 70 now in 2015. What's the reason for their slide as they're flush with cash so it can't be that can it? TTFP, UF & Texas have been able to basically maintain their ranking in the 40s or around 50 for 20 years now, as have others in that range like all of the UC schools, while schools like Miami, Clemson, Maryland, UConn have moved up to where we should be. Fruit U's decline in the rankings hasn't been as bad as ours as it was 49 in 1996 & 61 now. What's their secret?