The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools highly ranks UC San Diego's professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine. The Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked #17 out of 215 engineering schools, and the School of Medicine came in at #18 in the research category (and #21 in primary care).
In the U.S. News 2016 global ranking of computer science university programs, published last October, UC San Diego ranked #9 in the world. Data from previous U.S. News surveys indicate that UC San Diego graduate programs in the sciences are among the best in the nation. In particular, computer science remains #15 in the national 2017 list, which was unchanged because the publication did not survey computer science specifically this year. However, last October, U.S. News also came out with its 2016 Best Global Universities rankings (which it compiles separately from the national rankings), based exclusively on research in computer science and the department's reputation, In that survey, UC San Diego was ranked at #9 on the global list for computer science, while the overall campus was ranked #19 among global universities for all disciplines.
The Jacobs School has been consistently ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News for its wide range of strengths in fundamental engineering research areas such as wireless communications, computer engineering, and biomedical engineering. The school is also building on its many core strengths through new research centers, including the CSE-based Center for Visual Computing, and other emerging, interdisciplinary research areas including contextual robotics, wearable sensors, sustainable power and energy, visual computing, and microbiome innovation and others.
“UC San Diego’s impressive showing in the U.S. News and World Report rankings is a testament to the campus’s broad academic excellence,” said Chancellor Pradeep. K. Khosla. “The cutting-edge work of our graduate students and faculty are critical parts of UC San Diego’s success, bringing hard work, ingenuity, creativity and a diversity of life experiences that enrich the campus and its scholarly pursuits.”
U.S. News Best Global Universities for Computer Science 2016