Inside Higher Ed: Another Rankings Fiasco at ‘U.S. News’
Portland State University’s engineering college has been transformed into “a national and international academic and research institution.” The excellence of the college “illustrates how state investments in higher education can increase programmatic capacity.” The university’s electrical engineering department is so good that it’s in a “top 10″ listing with such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. “We knew PSU engineering was significantly under-ranked. But Top 10? Wow! It made my day. Go PSU!”
Those quotes are all from a press release that the Oregon university rushed out Friday, upon learning that the 2008 U.S. News & World Report guide to graduate programs had ranked Portland State No. 9 in electrical engineering. You won’t find the press release on the Portland State Web site any more. It turns out that Portland State doesn’t make the Top 10 — or the top 70 for that matter.
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