Case Western Reserve remained at 42nd in this year’s U.S. News & World Report national universities’ rankings, while the university’s undergraduate nursing program debuted at 10th in the magazine’s inaugural rating of bachelor’s programs in the discipline.
The campus saw minor moves in most categories, which altogether increased its overall score by one point, to 73, a 13-point improvement over the institution’s tally in 2010. The largest rankings jump this year came in the faculty resources category, where Case Western Reserve improved by 16 notches to 32nd. Criteria for this ranking include class size, compensation, and the percentage of faculty with a terminal degree in their fields.
In other undergraduate disciplines’ rankings, Case Western Reserve’s computer science program leapt 11 notches to 60th, business climbed two spots to 36th, and engineering overall fell three slots, to 45th. Biomedical engineering, however, climbed four notches to 12th.