MIT Engineering ranked Number One

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a leading private research institution in the USA, with outstanding reputation for research excellence internationally. It enjoys high worldwide rankings in international league tables - ranks 5th in the world by ARWU 2008 and 9th globally by THES 2008.

MIT's School of Engineering is again ranked No. 1 overall in U.S. News & World Report's Graduate Engineering Rankings 2010. It does very well in the Best Engineering Specialty Rankings, with 8 specialties ranked in the Top 3 positions nationwide.

Graduate Engineering Specialty Rankings 2010:

- 1st for Materials.

- 1st for Chemical.

- 1st for Mechanical.

- 1st for Electrical / Electronic / Communications.

- 1st for Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical (Equal top with Caltech)

- 1st for Computer Engineering (Equal rank with Stanford and University of California--Berkeley)

- 2nd for Nuclear.

- 3rd for Civil.

- 9th for Environmental / Environmental Health.

MIT is ranked Number 1 globally in the "Top 100 world universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences" published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ARWU Ranking 2008.