<p>Just a cool PDF showing how Cal Poly’s engineering programs were ranked.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/CS/misc_docs/UG_engineering_ranking_08.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/CS/misc_docs/UG_engineering_ranking_08.pdf</a></p>
<p>-Enjoy</p>
<p>I noticed Cal Poly (and even Rose-Hulman for that matter) aren’t listed in the category where the highest degree is doctorate, is this because they don’t want to mix non-doctorate schools into that category, or because the non-doctorate schools are worse than all of the doctorate schools on that list? I find it hard to believe UCI is better than Cal Poly for engineering.</p>
<p>It’s because they try to compare apples to apples, comparing only schools with PhD programs to each other, and those without to each other. You can’t compare across lists with these rankings to see if Cal Poly engineering is ranked “higher or lower” than, for example, a UC. The things you can look at are statistics that show how schools compare with each other for recruiting, starting and mid-career salaries, etc. The thing to know is that Cal Poly ranks highly for engineering and other programs when compared to similar schools. As an undergraduate, the presence or absence of a PhD program generally won’t affect you much.</p>
<p>One of the big advantages of going to a liberal arts school or a “masters” university such as Cal Poly is that courses are taught be real professors. In schools with PhD programs it is common to use doctoral students to teach undergrad classes.</p>
<p>actually you can compare them across the lists. Only by using the numbers though. They seperate the list so they can give more school attention and rankings basically. Cal Poly would end up being tied for 13th with U of Wisconsin on the doctorate list.</p>
<p>'08? Old data is old.</p>