The cover story in the Fall 2010 issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering focuses on ISyE’s graduate program and celebrates its string of twenty consecutive number one rankings in U.S. News & World Report. While there is no shortage of surveys assessing and comparing academic programs, it remains that the results published annually by U.S. News & World Report probably constitute the most visible source of such rankings and certainly the source most often mentioned. The feature article, “First in Its Class,” describes some attributes that form the underpinnings of a great graduate program and, in that regard, underscores how the program in ISyE measures up in comparison to others. Click here to read the article.