MTU Ranked Among Best Universities

Once again, Michigan Tech has moved up in the annual US News & World Report ranking of the best undergraduate colleges and universities, placing 56th, in the top third, of 170 public universities. Michigan Tech’s undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top half nationwide, 73rd of 157 programs ranked. Among 268 public and private national universities — a list topped by Princeton, Harvard and Yale — Michigan Tech ranked 116. The magazine defines national universities as ones that place an emphasis on faculty research and graduate studies. After evaluating more than 1,800 US universities, only 268 earned the “national university” designation, including Michigan Tech.