Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Programs Rank No. 1
There’s nothing nicer than a pat on the back from your peers, and that’s exactly what Rice’s graduate programs in electrical engineering and computer science have gotten with a No. 1 ranking in the 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
Four other Rice graduate programs also made the top 10: computer engineering (fourth), bioengineering (fifth), religious studies (fifth) and computational sciences (10th).
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics, a company owned partially by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, compiled overall institutional rankings on 164,843 faculty members at 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree. The company describes the index as a method for evaluating doctoral programs at research universities by measuring the annual productivity of faculty compared against national averages.
The complete rankings and more information about how they were compiled are available at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Web site.