<p>Pretty similar to graduate rankings (though mechanical was 10th for graduate program) and all departments are ranked in the top-20 (US News doesn't rank applied math). I think our material science program is a little under-ranked. NU undergrads had consistently done very well in competition held by TMS, especially the mat sci and engg undergrad student design competition, for which they'd won 4 out of 5 times since 2001, better than anyone ranked ahead....</p>
<p>Wow EECS jumped up like 20 ranks, I remember they used to be in the 40s.</p>
<p>Here's a question... When there are schools like Umich and UIUC ranked in front of NU for engineering (I don't know if this is true or not, but I should think so based on last year's), are they truly better? Would an engineer coming out of Umich, or even Berkeley, really be better than a Northwestern Engineer, or any other engineer from a school with solid engineering? If so, how? Why? These things make me curious.</p>
<p>Im not too familiar with engineering but i do know that many of the big state schools have better funding for something like engineering, hence they have the higher rankings often times...more research, more students, etc. But a degeree from Northwestern, in engineering, is worth a lot more than say Mich or U of I, Purdue, etc. also, most of the engineers at NU will not end up being an engineer, they generally go onto med school bus school, or something of the like</p>
<p>Northwestern is #6 among privates, above schools like Duke, Brown, Penn, Yale, RPI..etc. The privates ranked ahead of Northwestern are MIT, Stanford, CalTech, Cornell, and Princeton.</p>