{"84941":{"#nid":"84941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Continues National Prominence in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E maintained its powerful national stature in the most popular college rankings released today, once again ranked among the top five engineering programs in the nation by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E.  Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E program was ranked number one for the 13th year in a row.  In all, seven of the 11 programs within Engineering ranked in the top 10 of their respective disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the highly competitive schools of business, Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dupree.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDuPree College of Management\u003C\/a\u003E ranked 51st overall and the College\u0027s Production\/Operations Management program ranked 10th.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022Overall trends are far more important than a specific ranking in a specific year,\u0022 said President Wayne Clough.  \u0022Our consistently high rankings in Engineering indicate that we have been able to sustain a very high level of quality for a long time.  That\u0027s a very satisfying trend,\u0022 said Clough.  \u0022I\u0027m also confident in the fundamentals of our management program and look forward to improved rankings in the future.  The economy has hit the technology sector extremely hard, so it\u0027s only natural that a college that excels in entrepreneurship and the management of technology would feel the impact of that.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E remained a member of the elite top five, behind only MIT, Stanford, Cal-Berkeley, and Illinois.  The seven Engineering programs ranked in the top 10 are:  Aerospace (4th), Biomedical (6th), Civil (5th), Electrical (6th), Environmental (9th), Industrial and Systems (1st) and Mechanical (6th).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022I\u0027m very proud of the work done by our faculty, graduate students, and staff to achieve these rankings,\u0022 said Clough.  We\u0027re consistently competing well against some of the finest universities in the world.  Rankings are not why we are here, but the trends contained therein are notable.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis year, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E ranked graduate programs in Business, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Law and Medicine.  Additional information may be found at the \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\u003C\/em\u003E Web site.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Systems Engineering  #1; Overall Engineering in Top Five"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering maintained its powerful national stature in the most popular college rankings released today, once again ranked among the top five engineering programs in the nation by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E.  Tech\u0027s Industrial and Systems Engineering program was ranked number one for the 13th year in a row.  In all, seven of the 11 programs within Engineering ranked in the top 10 of their respective disciplines.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-04-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:10","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2003-04-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84951":{"id":"84951","type":"image","title":"2004 Graduate School Badge","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894706","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:06"}},"media_ids":["84951"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/edu\/grad\/rankings\/rankindex_brief.php","title":"\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026 World Report\u003C\/em\u003E Graduate School Rankings for 2004"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Fetig\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssociate Vice President\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jfetig3\u0022\u003EContact Jim Fetig\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-0852\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["james.fetig@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}