Winter 1996
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Winter 1996 |
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College and university officials from across the nation ranked Rose-Hulman as the second-best college of its kind in the country. The latest indication of Rose-Hulman’s increasing national stature was published in the 10th annual "America’s Best Colleges" issue of U.S. News & World Report magazine. Rose-Hulman was ranked second among engineering colleges that do not offer the doctoral degree. The ranking was determined from results of the magazine’s reputational survey of national engineering education officials. "The results of the survey are yet another example that Rose-Hulman is achieving its goal to become the best," President Samuel Hulbert said. "Everyone associated with Rose-Hulman should be proud that the nation’s educational community has such a high regard for the institute," he stated. This is the seventh consecutive year Rose-Hulman has been ranked by the magazine as one of the nation’s best engineering colleges. The rankings were published in the magazine’s Sept. 16 issue. The national recognition in U.S. News came just weeks after Rose-Hulman was ranked by Money magazine as the seventh-best buy in engineering and science education. Money also listed Rose-Hulman as one of the nation’s top 150 best buys in overall value. There was a change this year in U.S. News’ ranking of engineering colleges. For the first time, the magazine’s survey asked for a reputation ranking of engineering schools without a Ph.D. program separately from institutions that offer the doctorate degree. Cooper Union, located in New York City, was the only college ranked higher than Rose-Hulman in the non-Ph.D. category. The survey required education officials to place schools in quartiles based upon reputation. Each school placed in the top quartile received four points. A school listed in the second quartile received three points; two points were given for being in the third quartile; and one point for a reputational ranking in the last quartile. Cooper Union earned an average score of 3.6. Rose-Hulman followed closely with an average score of 3.5. Other schools listed among the top five with their average score were Harvey Mudd College, 3.4; and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, 3.3. Bucknell University, the Naval and Air Force academies, and Rochester Institute of Technology were tied with scores of 3.2. Other institutions ranked below the top five included Swarthmore College, Baylor University, the U.S. Military Academy, and Villanova University. To determine the rankings, U.S. News tallied the results of 2,700 surveys from college presidents, deans and admissions directors. The reputational rankings were then combined with educational data that measured each college’s academic quality, student selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, graduation rate and alumni satisfaction.
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