<p>I'm so happy / proud :)
Yale</a> Creates School of Engineering and Applied Science</p>
<p>Don't know why they needed to, considering that Yale already has the best engineering program in the United States, in terms of overall research quality (though obviously not quantity).</p>
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<p>The January/February 2007 (Vol. 18, No. 1) issue of Science Watch, which tracks trends and performance in basic research, ranked Yale Engineering No. 1. Yale Engineering was followed by Harvard, University of California at Santa Barbara, Princeton, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Caltech, Vanderbilt, and Michigan.</p>
<p>The study focused on 100 federally-funded universities from 2001 to 2005. Science Watch rankings are “based on relative citation impact’—that is, each university’s average-citations-per-paper score for the five-year period compared, on a percentage basis, against the world impact average in each field.”</p>
<p>Yale Engineering was also ranked first from 1997 to 2001 and ranked among the top ten from 1993 to 1997.</p>
<p>posterX you are CRAZY! CRAZY</p>
<p>EatingFood, if you are an undergraduate looking to get your name on a published paper, why would it be crazy to want to work with the highest-impact research department in the United States?</p>
<p>lol isn't it funny that Harvard created its SEAS last year?</p>
<p>it's really not connected..it's a known part of Yale's agenda..part of Levin's 14-year program to enhance sciences anyway..</p>
<p>posterX,</p>
<p>Why do you insist on citing such a "unique" (read narrow) study? Does is it make any sense to be in a an engineering ranking list that is missing MIT or UC Berkely?</p>
<p>[I am only posting here becasue CC keeps reminding me I haven't posted in a long time]</p>
<p>Yes, it makes sense. ISI is hardly "narrow" - it is the global standard for evaluating scientific research impact. </p>
<p>I think you are simply confusing quantity with quality. Of course Berkeley, Purdue, Michigan, MIT, Georgia Tech etc have a ton of engineering research. </p>
<p>But that doesn't mean that Caltech, etc don't have a higher quality of research -- which is probably one of the things that is more important to the average undergraduate. </p>
<p>Also, Berkeley and MIT are also great places -- you should consider that they may very well be #11 and #12 on the ISI list. To use a related example showing how good they are, a completely different source, Academic Analytics, had the following 2007 rankings in biomedical/computer/general/mechanical engineering:</p>
<p>Yale: Biomedical engineering #8, Computer engineering #10, General engineering #5, Mechanical engineering #3
Princeton: Computer engineering #1, Mechanical engineering #9, others not top 10
UCSB: Biomedical engineering #2, Computer engineering #7, others not top 10
Stanford: Computer engineering #4, General engineering #2, Mechanical engineering #5, biomedical not top 10
MIT: Mechanical engineering #4, others not top 10
Cornell: Computer engineering #2, others not top 10
Caltech: Computer engineering #2, Mechanical engineering #1, others not top 10
UC Berkeley: General engineering #3, Mechanical engineering #2, others not top 10
Michigan, UPenn: Not in top 10 in these fields</p>
<p>what does this mean to me if i am going to apply to yale next year?</p>
<p>I don't think it will have any impact on anyone's application. Yale already has a great engineering program, they are just changing the structure of it slightly and continuing to rapidly expand it (as they have been doing for the past several years).</p>
<p>nothing really, with respect to your admission...it would affect you if you were torn between say Yale and Princeton and had to choose between the two in a field from the above</p>
<p>That list from post #8 is not very good. It leaves out so many common engineering fields: Electrical, Chemical, Civil, Aero, then some still popular Materials Science, Financial, Environmental.</p>
<p>Yes, also, the fields overlap so much that it is problematic to break them down by specialty. I was just including that to illustrate that Berkeley and MIT are also very good. Post #2, which gives a general engineering ranking, refers to the best and most widely-respected ranking for overall engineering research quality.</p>
<p>Just saw this on Cornell's site:
"Cornell ranked first in National Science Foundation funding for programs in academic science and engineering in 2003–04 (the most recent data available). "</p>
<p>Cornell</a> University - Facts about Cornell - Marks of Distinction , 2nd from the bottom</p>
<p>I think Cornell is widely considered best engineering in the ivy league, and one of the best in the country. I do admire Yale's growth though. Also, I think Yale has an underrated chem dept.</p>
<p>Cornell has a superb department in engineering, across many different disciplines, and funding is a very good measure of that. However, I would measure research funding in terms of "per undergraduate science major", not just overall. I think if you broke down funding in terms of $$$ per undergraduate engineering major, you would find smaller institutions like Caltech and Yale at the top.</p>
<p>Yes, Yale also was ranked #1 in chemistry (or #2, after Harvard) in various 2005-2007 rankings such as those at ISI-Sciencewatch, COHE, etc. The department is extremely strong and just got a brand-new building, and several of its recent PhD graduates have been snapped up for faculty positions at Caltech right away, for example. Berkeley also obviously has an exceptionally strong department in chemistry.</p>
<p>where did u go to school posterX?</p>
<p>I think he stalks yale. How could one know so much about rankings, employment of graduate students, as well as everything about every department and housing/campus life? Not to mention the funding for every department.</p>
<p>Well, if that's the case, then I guess I "stalk" every school.</p>
<p>PosterX:</p>
<p>I am guessing from your posts that you are a Yale undergraduate engineering student who is very delusional and insecure.</p>
<p>If you live on planet earth, you would know Yale engineering is far, far, far from #1. Their admission standards are also far below the other top engineering schools (MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.) I think the peer reputation rankings that USNews utilizes really says it all.</p>
<p>gradschoolguru, as far as anyone knows, posterX has no Yale affiliation. He does, however, like to exaggerate Yale's advantages, even though they can stand on their own.</p>
<p>That said, you clearly know nothing about undergrad admissions. Yale's undergrad engineering majors compete in the same admissions pool with every other Yale student, which means they are just as good. They are certainly (on average, at least) better than Berkeley's, because Yale's admissions standards are much higher than Berkeley's. They are roughly equal to Caltech, MIT, and Stanford. Yale's engineering program is weaker than those other schools, but it's not because the undergrads who major in engineering at Yale are weaker.</p>