<p>I was surprised when I saw [thread=287132]this thread[/thread] on the "College Search and Admissions" forum mentioning that CMU has been recently ranked by the Chronicle of Higher Education as # 6 among U.S research universities in terms of faculty productivity (measured by peer-reviewed publications, citations per paper, awards, etc.). </p>
<p>According to this link mentioned in the thread, the specific disciplines in which CMU made to the top 10 in research output per faculty are (in alphabetical order): </p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>] Applied Mathematics
[</em>] Civil and Environmental Engineering
[<em>] Cognitive Science
[</em>] Computer Engineering (see note 1 below)
[<em>] Computer Science
[</em>] Information Science
[<em>] Linguistics
[</em>] Statistics
[/ul]</p>
<p>Although the list above shows lack of breadth (as most listed disciplines are computer/math related), it is nonetheless impressive that CMU made to top 10 OVERALL, including other programs within the university that are lower ranked, but probably still mantain reasonably high research output (since I don't have access to the full ranking tables, I won't speculate which programs would fall under that second category).</p>
<p>** Note 1 **: By the number of faculty members reported for Computer Engineering, I believe the Chronicle may have lumped it together with Electrical Engineering (both disciplines BTW are in the same department at CMU).</p>