{"id":9409,"date":"2021-09-17T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:27:30","slug":"harvey-mudd-ranks-high-in-u-s-news-world-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2021\/09\/17\/harvey-mudd-ranks-high-in-u-s-news-world-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Ranks High in U.S. News &#038; World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 2 for undergraduate engineering programs in\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-colleges\">Best Colleges 2022<\/a>, a ranking of colleges that offer a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s as the top degree. Over the past eight years, Harvey Mudd has tied for No. 1 with Rose-Hulman four times and taken the No. 2 spot the other four times.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd\u2019s engineering department was also recognized in the Best in the Specialties section, coming in at No. 3 in electrical engineering, No. 4 in computer engineering, No. 4 in mechanical engineering and tied for fifth in civil engineering. Harvey Mudd offers a general engineering degree that emphasizes experiential, hands-on learning and team-based projects with real-world applications.<\/p>\n<p>In year two of <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> ranking of computer science programs, which includes both doctoral and non-doctoral granting institutions, Harvey Mudd came in at No. 23 and was the highest-ranked undergraduate-only college on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mudd ranked No. 6 again this year on the list of Most Innovative Schools, and No. 15 for Best Undergraduate Teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The College ranked No. 14 for Undergraduate Research and No. 17 for Senior Capstone Programs. Harvey Mudd\u2019s undergraduate research and Clinic Program are both hallmarks of the College\u2019s hands-on educational experience.<\/p>\n<p>In the overall ranking of national liberal arts colleges, Harvey Mudd came in at No. 28. Last year Harvey Mudd ranked No. 25, tied with Colorado College.<\/p>\n<p>In the category of Campus Ethnic Diversity, an unranked list, Harvey Mudd came in second from the top with a score of 0.74. 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.<\/p>\n<p>On the Best Value Schools list, Harvey Mudd came in at No. 61, moving up from last year\u2019s No. 83 spot.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings\">methodology used this year<\/a> was the same as for last year and included: graduation and retention rates (22%), social mobility (5%), graduate rate performance (8%) undergraduate academic reputation (20%), faculty resources (20%), student selectivity (7%), financial resources (10%), alumni giving (3%) and graduate indebtedness (5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 2 for undergraduate engineering programs in\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s\u00a0Best Colleges 2022, a ranking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","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=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}