U.S. News & World Report is out with its graduate school rankings for 2016. Although the Jacobs School of Engineering overall ranked #17 out of 195 engineering schools, there was better news in the part of the survey focused on computer engineering (which is split between CSE and Electrical and Computer Engineering). The UC San Diego computer engineering program tied for #13 with UCLA and the University of Southern California.
There was nothing new to report on the computer science side. That's because the magazine does not do annual surveys of computer science programs, since at most schools computer science is not located inside of the engineering school. The last survey of computer science -- published in 2014 -- had UC San Diego tied for #15 among the top U.S. programs.
Building on fundamental engineering strengths including wireless communications and biomedica engineering, the school is now developing new research centers in emerging, interdisciplinary research areas including wearable sensors, extreme events engineering, sustainable power and energy, and visual computing. The Best Graduate Schools rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.