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Stony Brook Again Receives
National Recognition:
Named One of Top 100 Universities
and Top 50 Publics
U.S. News & World Report
Cites
Undergraduate Research, Engineering
We are finally on
the magical top 100 list:
Tied for 97
SUNY Bing is still beating us - #74
but Buffalo is #115
and Albany is still a party school!
STONY BROOK, N.Y., August 19, 2005 -- Stony
Brook University has been ranked among the top 100 national
universities in America and among the top 50 public national
universities in the country in the annual U.S. News & World
Report survey released today. The survey marks the fourth time
in less than a year that Stony Brook has received either worldwide
or national recognition in such a poll.
The University tied for 97th in the U.S. News rating of
national universities, which the magazine defines as universities
that "offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as
master's and doctoral degrees; many strongly emphasize
research." Stony Brook ranked tied for 45th in the category
of top public national universities.
The survey, which appears in the August 29 edition of U.S. News,
is based on 15 indicators of academic quality gathered from each
institution.
"Stony Brook University is an extraordinary place," said
Shirley Strum Kenny, President of Stony Brook University.
"Our internationally known faculty enrich the lives of
students from all over the globe and our researchers pioneer
discoveries that improve the lives of people throughout the world.
The rankings -- all of them -- are a tribute to the terrific work
our people do."
Stony Brook's engineering program was also selected as one of the
nation's best, ranking in a tie for 67th for universities whose
highest degree offered is a doctorate. And the University was one
of only 36 cited for its undergraduate research/creative ideas --
joining such other institutions as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the
University of California-Berkeley, and MIT.
The University also ranked 24th in "least debt: national
universities."
Within the last year, Stony Brook has also been ranked the 136th
best university in the world by the London Times Higher
Education Supplement, and in the top 50 in North America;
ranked 10th among U.S. public universities by the Times; and
ranked among the top 150 universities in the world by the
Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai.
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