{"323941":{"#nid":"323941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Undergraduate Engineering Program Climbs to 4th Place in U.S. News \u0026 World Report Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s engineering college has climbed to fourth in the annual undergraduate engineering program rankings released by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report on September 9, 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Engineering (CoE) is tied with Caltech among bachelor\u2019s programs at universities that offer doctoral degrees, as reported in the annual U.S. News publication called America\u2019s Best Colleges. All of the programs offered by CoE, the nation\u2019s largest and most diverse engineering college, placed among the top eight of their respective areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is again No. 1 among similar schools, while Tech\u2019s programs in aerospace, biomedical, civil, environmental and mechanical engineering are all ranked in the top five in the nation in their disciplines. The college is the second-ranked public engineering institution in the country behind the University of California\u2014Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is gratifying to know that U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report recognizes Georgia Tech\u2019s excellence in undergraduate engineering education, \u201csaid Gary S. May, dean of engineering at Georgia Tech. \u201cThis shows we are doing an outstanding job at producing a high level of academic quality within the college. The ranking is a reflection of the efforts of our faculty, staff and students whose hard work and commitment to excellence truly make us a world-class technological university.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0026nbsp;Undergraduate Rankings, published September 9, 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering: 1st\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECivil Engineering: 2nd\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace Engineering: 3rd\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnvironmental Engineering: 3rd\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical Engineering: 4th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMechanical Engineering: 5th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputer Engineering: 6th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElectrical Engineering: 6th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChemical and Biomolecular Engineering: 7th\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaterials Science and Engineering: 8th\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s engineering college has climbed to fourth in the annual undergraduate engineering program rankings released by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report on September 9, 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s engineering college has climbed to fourth in the annual undergraduate engineering program rankings released by U.S. News \u0026 World Report on September 9, 2014."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2014-09-11 09:27:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:04","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKay Kinard\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications, College of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kay.kinard@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}