UM-Dearborn again among top regional universities according to U.S. News & World Report

UM-Dearborn was among the top regional universities in Michigan and ranked 36^th among all regional universities in the Midwest. This marks the 13^th consecutive year the university was rated as one of the region’s best.

UM-Dearborn’s College of Business (COB) and College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) also were ranked on program-specific lists.

For the 18^th consecutive year, the College of Engineering and Computer Science was rated among the nation’s top ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs among schools whose terminal degree is a bachelor’s or master’s with few, if any, doctoral programs. The program was the category’s highest-rated public undergraduate engineering program in the state.

The College of Business was ranked as one of Michigan’s top undergraduate business programs. This was the seventh consecutive year COB’s undergraduate program has appeared on the list.

The rankings, which were released online this week at US News and World Report, will appear in the magazine’s annual guidebook to “America’s Best Colleges.” In the magazine’s ratings, UM-Dearborn is compared with other public universities that offer a full range of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, but few or no doctoral degrees. Those institutions are rated by region because they tend to draw students from their surrounding areas, according to U.S. News. The magazine said it bases its overall rankings “on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality.” Their rankings of engineering programs are based on a peer survey of deans and senior faculty members at schools around the country. For more information on how U.S. News ensures the accuracy of the rankings.