Monday, September 01, 2008
Carnegie Mellon Ranked Among the Elite by U.S. News & World Report
8 1/2 x 11 Newsletter: "Carnegie Mellon continued to have a strong showing in U.S. News & World Report magazine's annual Best Colleges guide. In the 2009 edition, the university ranks 22nd in the Best National University category. The Tepper School of Business undergraduate business ranking improved one spot to sixth best in the country, and the College of Engineering undergraduate programs remained ninth best in the nation."
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Congrats Carnegie Mellon for being amazing and keeping up the high expectations! I knew there was a good reason why I picked this school!
It's funny that considering Carnegie Mellon's consistent high rankings, many people are still not familiar with the school. I've found this especially when talking about Tepper, where one person who was applying to graduate business school refused to believe me that it was highly ranked- she'd never heard of it.
But hey...people don't need to have heard of it, nor does US News and World Report have to rank it highly for those of us to go here to know we made a wise choice.
It was most interesting to me, to look at the list and see how closely ranked the very top schools seem to be. There is very little difference between the very top schools and the top 25, where CMU falls. Congrats to Tepper and CIT for their very high rankings.
It surprises me also how many high schoolers and even students in college haven't heard of Carnegie Mellon. Maybe it's becasue of our size. I'm surprised also that in all those rankings they give out they don't say anything about drama. I'm sure we must be fairly high ranked for undergraduate theatre and probably graduate theatre as well.
I don't have a number, but I have heard that CMU Drama ranks right up there as far as being a good program. A lot of people I have talked to have heard of the school, and a lot have not. I'm not sure how it goes unnoticed, but I suppose others' loss is our gain.
congrats for the school and the community. i know for sure that ranking on a high list was also helped by out alumni who has been constantly great in their areas and left positive images for the school. good for tepper school and engineering school!
Racial diversity? Ummm....ok I guess so. I dont know if we would rank all that high compared to most state schools, but oh well. Sad SOD wasn't on the list, I wonder if there is one of these surveys out there just for arts programs.
What about the School of Drama? Thanks a lot, world, for forgetting the arts again... It seems that these rankings always come down to the 'real' college degrees. I agree with Kendra, though. Most people I talk to have never heard of Carnegie, unless they're in theatre. Which is ironic, since we're not in that 'high ranking' article...
Coming from a slightly more engineering side of the campus, its interesting to me that most people know CMU first for robotics/CS (both not listed) and then maybe engineering. Only within theater circles does the SOD come up, and still typically not that often. I think perhaps the reason you don't see the SOD listed anywhere is because it is harder to rank arts programs like they rank engineering programs. For example the engineering program can through a lot of hard numbers around about successes and testing, %graduated and the like, where as in the SOD our retention rate may be lower, and its hard to put a number on a designer relative to another designer. Thats probably why art programs are more word of mouth and reputation than U.S. News & World Report material.
Oh my goodness, Carnegie Mellon made the elite ranks? Again? What a shock. And yet, 50% of the people I tell about still have never heard of it, which can be a real ego-buster.Anyway, congrats on moving on up in certain specialties and keeping us at the top. At least we know all that money is going to good use.
When Talking with people about where they go to school and people asking me where I go, it appears Carnegie Mellon is not always a school they know of. If they do know about it, it is for the engineering, science, or computer science programs, not Drama. The school is also relatively a new "ivy league" school and it will take some time to get more recognition throughout the world.
I've always heard that CMU is "top five" in CS - up there with Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford. I know for a fact that the largest percentage of Google recruits to come from a single university in 2006 all were hired from CMU grads or undergrads.
Anyway, grats to CMU. We try very hard to get recognition, even if it sometimes backfires. :: cough walking to the sky cough ::
..also, random CS fact. All these word verification things you see everywhere online now? Yeah, came from CMU. Mostly, this guy.
When I explained to people i would be attending Carnegie Mellon I was surprised to find that many people had never heard of the school. However, the people that did know the school had often heard of it from others who are or have been students and were very aware of the prestigious reputation that the school has. It is nice to see Carnegie Mellon being recognized by the U.S. News & World Report, while at the same time knowing the people who come here know about the school because they are deeply committed to what they have chosen to do, and are aware of the fact that this is where they will receive the best education in their chosen field.
That's great. No mention of drama. Maybe we're just off the scale... It kinda makes me wish we got Tepper on our transcript, but I don't think many of us would survive in a cubicle for very long. Really, the only ranking we need is our persona toward the rest of our industry. If the people hiring us like the school, job scored.
I've told many people I'd be going to Carnegie Mellon this year and as everyone else has said, not as many people know about it as one would think. I think it's one of those schools that people know about (and are impressed with) if they have any business knowing. People in the theatre industry know the reputation of the School of Drama; and, isn't that what really matters, for the most part?
Personally, I've been hearing about the School of Drama at CMU since I was a budding lil' playwright in highschool. Everywhere I've been in the theatre world the School is always mentioned as a top performer. What it has meant for ME, as a professor here, has been worlds - many doors suddenly opened to me after I got my appointment here. This School rocks. Rejoice.
-Doc Chemers
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