2017 Rankings: MIT Tops in Engineering

U.S. News & World Report released its 2017 Best U.S. Colleges Rankings on Sept. 13 and MIT was named the best undergraduate engineering program for the 26^th consecutive year. The Institute also placed first in 10 other categories, including the high school counselor rankings, and named in the top 10 in 13 more.

U.S. News’ undergraduate rankings mirror its rankings of best graduate schools released earlier this year. MIT earned 10 first-place rankings, including top graduate engineering school for the 28th consecutive year,and top-10 rankings in eight other categories.

MIT’s placement is the 2017 undergraduate categories are listed below. For more rankings fun, see where MIT landed in the Princeton Review and QS World University rankings that were released earlier this month.

Ranked #1

• Aerospace Engineering
• Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering (tie)
• High School Counselor Rankings
• Management Information Systems
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Production/Operation Management
• Quantitative Analysis

Ranked #2

• Best Colleges for Veterans
• Business Programs
• Entrepreneurship
• Supply Chain Management/Logistics

Top-10 Rankings

• Finance (#3)
• Most Innovative Schools (#3)
• Biomedical Engineering (#4)
• Best Value Schools (#5)
• Civil Engineering (#5)
• Environmental / Environmental Health Engineering (#6)
• National Universities (#7)
• Management (#8)
• Industrial / Manufacturing Engineering (#9, tie)