Colorado State Ranks in Top Tier

U.S. News and World Report ranked Colorado State among the best colleges in the nation in the 2008 "America's Best Colleges" edition.

U.S. News and World Report listed Colorado State in the top tier of public and private doctoral universities and 62nd among public universities, closely ranked with institutions such as Florida State University, University of Oregon, University at Buffalo-SUNY and Kansas State University. For a complete list of rankings and methodologies, visit the Web at www.usnews.com.

"While we measure our success through many factors, this ranking further solidifies Colorado State among the finest research institutions in the country," said Larry Edward Penley, Colorado State president. "Our faculty and students look beyond the borders of Fort Collins to address the great global challenges, from eradicating infectious diseases from the planet to researching innovative treatments for cancers and creating clean energy sources."

Also ranked individually in the top 100 of the 2008 edition were Colorado State's undergraduate programs in the Colleges of Engineering and Business.

The College of Engineering ranked 35th among all public universities and 57th overall, up from 73rd in 2007. The college boasts three University Distinguished Professors and four members of the National Academy of Engineering. The college's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, which offers undergraduate and graduate programs, ranked in the top 10 most productive computer engineering programs in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, produced by Academic Analytics with support from State University of New York-Stony Brook.

The College of Business ranked 59th among all public research universities. In March, Business Week ranked Colorado State's College of Business as one of the top undergraduate business programs in the country. In fall 2006, Princeton Review ranked it No. 1 nationally in "Best Administered" MBA graduate programs.

In March 2007, U.S. News and World Report ranked the Veterinary Medicine program at Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences second in the nation among America's best graduate schools. It is the only veterinary medical program in the Western states to be ranked among the top 10. Colorado State's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences leads all other schools of its kind in external research funding.

In U.S. News and World Report "Best Graduate Schools" rankings for occupational therapy, Colorado State's graduate program ranked seventh in the nation. The ranking rose three places from the previous survey. Five graduate programs in the College of Engineering were ranked in the U.S. News and World Report 2008 edition of “America's Best Graduate Schools”: chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical and environmental.

Five graduate programs in the College of Natural Sciences were ranked by U.S. News in the 2008 edition: chemistry, computer science, biological sciences, mathematics and physics.