U.S. Information introduced its 2023 Greatest Graduate College rankings immediately, together with excellent UMBC graduate applications throughout all three schools. Prime fields the place UMBC excels vary from pc science and a number of other sorts of engineering to psychology and statistics. Amongst UMBC’s 14 Greatest Graduate College rankings for 2023 are seven top-100 applications.
This recognition honors UMBC school, employees, and college students’ mixed dedication to excellence, says President Freeman Hrabowski. “These rankings mirror the power and creativity of our colleagues and college students,” he shares. “We’re very happy with everybody concerned.”
To develop the rankings, U.S. Information mixed quantitative knowledge and professional opinions on the reputations of over 2,000 applications, gathering enter from greater than 23,000 deans, program administrators, senior school, and different leaders.
Continued success in engineering
UMBC’s engineering applications ranked within the prime 100, each broadly and in a number of subfields. General, UMBC engineering jumped up 9 spots to rank 99th, tied with the College of Oklahoma and Illinois Institute of Know-how. UMBC’s environmental engineering graduate program moved as much as fifty fifth. The college additionally ranked 77th in chemical engineering, 89th in pc engineering, 99th in mechanical engineering, and 113th in electrical engineering.
Moreover, U.S. Information ranked UMBC’s graduate applications in pc science 74th within the nation.
This recognition and the ahead momentum it represents come at an essential second for the college. UMBC marks the thirtieth anniversary of the School of Engineering and Info Know-how (COEIT) this yr.
“COEIT’s continued success and UMBC’s newly designated R1 standing are a testomony to our excellent college students, employees, and school, and help from our campus,” says COEIT Dean Keith J Bowman. “Investments in UMBC by our state and our company companions have enabled the continued ascendance of applications throughout UMBC.”
Power in pure and mathematical sciences
As we speak’s rankings additionally honor applications from UMBC’s School of Pure and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS), together with arithmetic (54th), statistics (54th), organic sciences (119th), chemistry (a hundred and fifteenth), and physics (ninety fifth). The statistics program joins top-55 establishments like College of Chicago, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and College of Virginia.
“The U.S. Information graduate program rankings mirror a few years of effort and dedication by the school, employees, and college students within the faculty. Their dedication to world-class analysis, mentoring, and inclusive excellence gives the muse for UMBC’s rising repute as an R1 college,” says CNMS Dean Invoice LaCourse. “I’m grateful that our applications are receiving the popularity that they deserve.”
Excellence in social sciences
Within the social sciences, UMBC’s psychology graduate applications got here in at 122. UMBC joins fellow top-125 universities in psychology starting from Johns Hopkins and Rutgers to College of Delaware and American College.
Moreover, UMBC is a hundred and fortieth within the interdisciplinary class of geology. This U.S. Information rating contains fields starting from environmental sciences—a part of UMBC’s School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS)—to geophysics.
“The departments of geography and environmental programs and psychology constantly elevate the work of the social sciences in our School and at UMBC,” says CAHSS Dean Kimberly R. Moffitt. “I’m most appreciative of the large efforts of the school, employees, and college students which can be mirrored in these rankings and are worthy of such recognition.”
UMBC’s energy in analysis has helped develop graduate applications in all schools. “We’re so happy with our targeted improvement in analysis and graduate training,” says Janet Rutledge, vice provost and dean of the Graduate College. “This progress has led to our current R1 classification in addition to these graduate program rankings, which mirror UMBC’s general excellence as a number one public analysis college.”
Banner picture: Nilanjan Banerjee, pc science and electrical engineering, (proper) working with a pupil within the lab in 2018. Photograph by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
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