{"id":4248,"date":"2015-09-09T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T22:53:33","slug":"harvey-mudds-engineering-program-ranked-no-1-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2015\/09\/09\/harvey-mudds-engineering-program-ranked-no-1-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd\u2019s Undergraduate Engineering Program Ranked No. 1 in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harvey Mudd College was ranked No. 1 among the nation\u2019s undergraduate engineering programs in <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> 2016 Best Colleges rankings, sharing the top spot for engineering with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Harvey Mudd&#8217;s ranking is among colleges that offer the bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s as its top degree in engineering. The College has tied for first place six times over the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The College\u2019s engineering department was also recognized in the \u201cBest in the Specialties\u201d section for computer engineering (second&nbsp;place), electrical\/electronic\/communications engineering (fourth&nbsp;place) and mechanical engineering (fifth&nbsp;place). Harvey Mudd offers a broad yet deep general engineering degree that emphasizes experiential, hands-on learning and team-based projects with real-world applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey Mudd came in at No. 5 on the High School Counselors\u2019 Top College Picks, sharing the slot with Smith, Vassar and Wellesley colleges. All five of the undergraduate Claremont Colleges ranked in the top 20 of the High School Counselors\u2019 ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the overall ranking for national liberal arts colleges, Harvey Mudd tied with four other colleges for the No. 14 spot, moving up from last year\u2019s No. 15 ranking. Harvey Mudd had the highest SAT\/ACT 25th-75th percentile scores of all national liberal arts colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> rankings are based on a selection of indicators of quality, including: assessment of excellence by peers and counselors (22.5 percent); graduation and retention rates (22.5 percent); faculty resources (20 percent); student selectivity (12.5 percent); financial resources (10 percent); graduation rate performance (7.5 percent); and alumni giving (5 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College was ranked No. 1 among the nation\u2019s undergraduate engineering programs in U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,217],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-unlisted"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13031,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/13031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}