Rankings

MIT was named one of “America’s Best Employers” in Forbes’ annual ranking of the top 500 workplaces around the country, reports CBS Boston. 

The Sloan School of Management was honored in the Financial Times’ annual executive education rankings. Laurent Ortmans and Patricia Nilsson note that nearly half of the participants in Sloan’s executive education program “had an MBA, double the average for all ranked schools. Nearly two-thirds of students worked at partner level or higher compared with an average of 36 per cent.”

A new study finds that MIT offers students the best value for their money, reports Will Norris for Boston Magazine. “The study found that MIT, with its plentiful grant and scholarship opportunities and a cool $78,300 average starting salary for graduates, affords students the ‘best value’ of any school in the country,” writes Norris. 

MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning has been named the world’s top architecture school by QS University Rankings for the third year in a row, reports Madeline Billis of Boston Magazine. MIT received a total of 98 points when judged on categories including academic and employer reputations and research citations from the previous year.

MIT has been ranked the number two university in the world in U.S. News & World Report’s list of the best global universities, writes Kyle Scott Claus for Boston Magazine. 

MIT was named the number one midsize school in the Northeast in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings. MIT took the number two spot in the overall rankings. 

MIT has been named one of the top 10 universities in the country by U.S. News & World Report, writes Dylan McGuiness for The Boston Globe. 

MIT has been named the top university in the world in the latest QS World University Rankings, reports Nick Morrison for Forbes. This is the fifth consecutive year that MIT has earned the number one spot in the QS rankings. 

Writing for The Boston Globe, Jaclyn Reiss highlights that MIT was named one of the most prestigious colleges in the world in a new ranking by Times Higher Education. 

MIT has been named one of the most reputable universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, reports Karsten Strauss for Forbes. 

MIT has been ranked the number one university in the world by QS World University Rankings, reports Naina Bhardwaj for The Huffington Post. Bhardwaj writes that, “MIT is at the technological forefront.”

QS World University Rankings has named MIT the top university in the world, reports Aftab Ali for The Independent. Ali writes that MIT “has taken the top spot again for the fourth year running.”

“QS released its 2014-2015 world's best college rankings, putting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the top,” writes Aileen Graef for UPI. MIT retained its 2013-2014 number-one spot on the list of colleges, which are judged by research, teaching, employability and internationalization.

For the second year in a row, the QS World University Rankings rated MIT number one on its list of best schools across the globe. “The rankings judge colleges by research, teaching, employability and internationalization,” reports Kate Barnato for CNBC.

In an article for USA Today, Megan Cahill highlights MIT’s top-ranked biology program. “As a top research university with small class sizes, MIT offers a program that allows students to work closely with professors and their peers on various research projects,” she writes.