University Rankings
U.s. news & world report , undergraduate programs (fall 2023) .
- 53rd among 439 national universities ( U.S. News & World Report)
- 21st in "Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects" ranking
- 51st in "First Year Experiences" ranking
- 58th in "Most Innovative" ranking
Program Rankings
Business (47th)
- Accounting (60th)
- Entrepreneurship (34th)
- Finance (40th)
- Management (35th)
Engineering (37th)
- Biomedical Engineering (19th)
- Computer Science (63rd)
Nursing (10th)
Graduate and Professional Programs (2021)
Engineering
52nd - Overall 17th - Biomedical Engineering 35th Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering 37th Mechanical Engineering (214 PhD-granting programs surveyed in 2019; 201 ranked programs)
76th - Overall 9th - Health Law 24th - International Law (195 ranked accredited law schools)
88th - Full-time MBA programs 19th - Part-time MBA programs (477 MBA programs surveyed; 131 ranked programs)
24th - Medical research schools 19th - Research: Pediatrics 55th - Primary care schools (177 eligible medical schools surveyed; 124 ranked)
12th - DNP Program (among 203 ranked programs) 11th - MSN Program 5th - Master's Nursing Administration 5th - DNP Leadership 21st Midwifery 36th - Anesthesia
(603 accredited schools surveyed; 236 ranked programs)
Social Work
9th among more than 250 accredited master's program
Among the top 25 private research universities nationally
The Center for Measuring University Performance (University of Massachusetts).
The center ranks universities on nine indicators, including research support, significant awards to faculty, endowment assets, annual private contributions, doctorates awarded, and average SAT scores. (The Top American Research Universities, December 2018)The center ranks universities on nine indicators, including research support, significant awards to faculty, endowment assets, annual private contributions, doctorates awarded, and average SAT scores. (The Top American Research Universities, December 2018)
121st in the world (44th in the U.S.)
Times Higher Education ranked CWRU 164th in the world (of 1,904) and 50th in the US (of 169) in its 2024 world university rankings. Factors in the rankings include peer assessments and citations per faculty member.
18th in the world for contributions to innovation
The results in Nature Index 2017 Innovation , a supplement to the multidisciplinary journal Nature, ordered universities and institutes based on citations of their research articles in other organizations’ patent documents.
13th in the country for translating research into commercial success
The Brookings Institution report “ Hidden in plain sight: The oversized impact of downtown universities ” finds that leading higher education institutions located within major metropolitan areas dramatically outpace suburban and rural peers in research-related economic activity. Case Western Reserve ranked 13th overall, but stood at sixth for its number of patents per 1,000 students, at 4.1. The university's licensing deals (2.7) and new businesses per 1,000 students (0.4) each ranked 13th, while licensing income per student, at $155, was 26th.
16th in the nation for percentage of baccalaureate to doctoral degrees
The National Science Foundation compared the baccalaureate institutions of 2002-2011 science and engineering doctorate recipients with the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in all fields nine years earlier. CWRU ranked 16th, with 8.4 doctorate recipients per hundred bachelor's degrees awarded. Only six research universities, all private, had higher percentages ( NSF InfoBrief 13-323, April 2013 )
37th overall and 22nd among private institutions in federal expenditures for research and development
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47th in the 2019 Reuters 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities list
Reuters 100 ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy, and relies exclusively on empirical data such as patent filings and research paper citations in its methodology. Case Western Reserve University was ranked 67th in the 2018. Reuters 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities
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University Rankings. Among the top 25 private research universities nationally. 121st in the world (44th in the U.S.) 18th in the world for contributions to innovation. 13th in the country for translating research into commercial success. 16th in the nation for percentage of baccalaureate to doctoral degrees. 37th overall and 22nd among private ...