{"51480":{"#nid":"51480","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Grad Programs Ranked 4th in Nation; Professor Ranked 1st in World","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch2\u003ESoftware Engineering Ranked 3rd in the Nation and Professor Ranked 1st in the World\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(May 31, 2007) - The College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been ranked 4th in the Nation for graduate programs in an article published in the June 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM. The article by Jie Ren and Richard N. Taylor, \u0022Automatic and\u00a0 Versatile Publications Ranking for Research Institutions and Scholars,\u0022 also ranks Georgia Tech 3rd in the nation for software\u00a0 engineering and lists NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing Mary Jean Harrold as the number one software engineering scholar in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe rankings framework employed by the authors uses publications data from 1995 to 2003 to rank computing graduate programs\u00a0 automatically and objectively. One of the most well-known rankings, the U.S. News and World Report rankinging icludes both\u00a0 objective indicators and subjective polls, and currently ranks the College of Computing graduate programs 11th in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESoftware engineering institutions and scholars were ranked based on data from 2000 to 2004 from journals and conferences that are\u00a0 considered to be the most prestigious in the field: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on\u00a0 Software Engineering, the International Conference on Software Engineering, and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the\u00a0 Foundations of Software Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top 5 ranked computing graduate programs are:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Maryland, College Park\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECarnegie Mellon University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStanford University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top 5 ranked software engineering institutions are:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECarnegie Mellon University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of Maryland, College Park\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOregon State University\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EACM subscribers can find the complete article \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1247001.1247010\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been ranked 4th in the Nation for graduate programs in an article published in the June 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM. The article also ranks Georgia Tech 3rd in the nation for software engineering and lists NSF ADVANCE Professor of Computing Mary Jean Harrold as the number one software engineering scholar in the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:44:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:53","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170948","name":"software_engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}