{"id":5990,"date":"2017-09-12T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2018-09-06T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T23:42:15","slug":"harvey-mudds-undergraduate-engineering-program-ranked-no-1-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2017\/09\/12\/harvey-mudds-undergraduate-engineering-program-ranked-no-1-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd\u2019s Undergraduate Engineering Program Ranked No. 1 in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvey Mudd College was ranked No. 1 among the nation\u2019s undergraduate engineering programs in\u00a0U.S. News & World Report\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Best Colleges 2018<\/a>, sharing the top spot for engineering with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Harvey Mudd\u2019s ranking is among colleges that offer a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s as the top degree in engineering. The College has tied for first place seven times over the past decade.<\/p>\n

The College\u2019s engineering department was also recognized in the \u201cBest in the Specialties\u201d section for electrical\/electronic\/communications engineering (fourth\u00a0place). 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

Harvey Mudd came in at No. 5 on the High School Counselors\u2019 Top College Picks, sharing the slot with Bowdoin, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley colleges. All five of the undergraduate Claremont Colleges ranked in the top 25 of the High School Counselors\u2019 ratings.<\/p>\n

In the category of \u201cCampus Ethnic Diversity,\u201d Harvey Mudd ranked No. 5 among all liberal arts colleges, tied with Wellesley College. Increasing diversity has been a strategic priority for Harvey Mudd; the 2015\u20132016 entering class was the most ethnically diverse in the College\u2019s history, and each incoming class since has contributed to building a more diverse community. Harvey Mudd was also on the list of top colleges for economic diversity, coming in at No. 20, and on the list of colleges with the largest percentage of international students\u201411 percent of the College\u2019s student body is from other countries.<\/p>\n

On this year\u2019s list of \u201cMost Innovative Schools,\u201d a ranking that highlights colleges making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities, Harvey Mudd came in at No. 7, in a three-way tie with Amherst and Hendrix colleges.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cAcademic Programs to Look For\u201d section, Harvey Mudd made the \u201cSenior Capstone\u201d list of 16 unranked schools with excellent senior capstone experiences. All students at Harvey Mudd complete either an independent research project<\/a> or participate in the Harvey Mudd Clinic Program<\/a>, a year-long experience that engages juniors and seniors in the solution of real-world, technical problems for industrial clients.<\/p>\n

Harvey Mudd also made the \u201cUndergraduate Research\/Creative Projects\u201d list, an unranked selection\u00a0of 42 colleges that offer students the opportunity, resources and faculty mentorship to produce stellar undergraduate research or creative projects.<\/p>\n

In the overall ranking for national liberal arts colleges, Harvey Mudd tied with six other colleges for the No. 12 spot, moving up from last year\u2019s No. 21 ranking. Harvey Mudd shared the No. 12 position with Colby College, Colgate University, Smith College, United States Military Academy and Vassar College.<\/p>\n

U.S. News & World Report\u2019s\u00a0rankings are based on a selection of indicators of quality including: graduation and retention rates (22.5 percent); assessment of excellence by peers and counselors (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":"

Harvey Mudd College was ranked No. 1 among the nation\u2019s undergraduate engineering programs in\u00a0U.S. News & World Report\u2019s\u00a0Best Colleges 2018, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ranking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","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=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}