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Since 1865, Cornell University has been continuously outweighing other liberal arts colleges and emerged as one of the best institutes of its kind. Moreover, the university is also a part of the prestigious group of Ivy League Universities that comprise the top-notch US universities. This feat has been accomplished through its relentless efforts to provide world-class education through its unique and comprehensive curriculum.
Cornell University has featured in the ranking list of top-ranking agencies in the world, such as Times Higher Education, US News, QS Rankings and many more.
Cornell University Ranking 2020-21 – Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
| Institution Name | Cornell University |
| Location | USA |
| World Rank | 13 |
| National Rank | 11 |
| Quality of Education Rank | 13 |
| Alumni Employment Rank | 28 |
| Quality of Faculty Rank | 17 |
| Research Performance Rank | 24 |
| Overall Score | 89.8 |
Cornell University Ranking in the World
As per the latest world rankings conferred by the Times Higher Education (THE) in 2020, Cornell University secured #19 rank. From the past 3 years, i.e., 2017, 2018, and 2019, Cornell has been continuously placed at #19 with an overall score of 85.1.
THE ranks the universities based upon an overall score that is primarily calculated considering the factors like teaching, research, citations, international outlook, and industry income.
Cornell Engineering climbs to #12 in U.S. News grad rankings
Cornell Engineering ranks #12 among engineering colleges in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released on March 30, 2021. This is an improvement of two places over last year’s #14 ranking.
Cornell also ranked highly in 11 specialty rankings:
#10 Aerospace Engineering
#03 Biological/Agricultural Engineering
#14 Biomedical Engineering
#18 Chemical Engineering
#11 Civil Engineering
#08 Computer Engineering
#09 Electrical Engineering
#11 Environmental Engineering
#05 Industrial/Systems Engineering
#08 Materials Engineering
#08 Mechanical Engineering
Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.
In contrast to THE rankings, Cornell performed well in the QS World University Rankings and was positioned at a higher rank of #14 for a third consecutive year with an overall score of 89.3 based on the various ranking parameters.
The ranking parameters used in the QS rankings are academic and employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, no. of citations, international faculty and percentage of international students.
Let’s look at Cornell’s ranking breakdown for the latest year of 2020.
Whether it’s QS or THE, the world ranking of Cornell seems to have been exactly the same in the last 3 consecutive years indicating its constant performance over the years. Let’s have a look at Cornell’s ranking trend over a decade:
Cornell University Ranking in the Country
Cornell University has performed exceptionally well in the National Rankings too. As per U.S. News and World Report, Cornell stands as the 17th best national university in the US for the year 2020.
Every year, US News tallies nearly 400 institutions based upon a wide array of indicators such as rate of graduation, class size, student-faculty ratio, the class profile of admitted students and opinions of experts on the universities.
This year, Cornell added one more feather in its cap by securing #68 rank and making its mark in the top 75 liberal arts colleges in the US out of 223 colleges in total, climbing 13 places higher than the rank of #81 in 2018.
Coming to THE’s US ranking list of 2020, Cornell University climbed two places higher than last year to secure #9 rank, standing right after the prestigious Stanford University (#7) and outperformed top institutions like Duke University (#10) and Northwestern University (#11).
While in the QS World University Rankings by location, Cornell stood at #14 rank among all the US institutions.
Cornell also featured among one of the top 50 liberal arts colleges, by grabbing the #33 spot, in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings (2020).
Cornell University Subject-wise Ranking
A plethora of subjects offered by Cornell University have featured top-50 subjects in the list of various ranking agencies. Let’s have a look at the best programs offered by the university.
THE Subject-wise Ranking
| Subject | Rank |
|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | #26 |
| Clinical, Preclinical & Health | #17 |
| Engineering & Technology | #26 |
| Life Sciences | #17 |
| Physical Sciences | #15 |
| Social Sciences | #19 |
| Psychology | #15 |
QS Subject-wise Ranking
| Subject | Rank |
|---|---|
| Veterinary Science | #3 |
| Agriculture & Forestry | #5 |
| Biological Science | #12 |
| Hospitality & Leisure Management | #12 |
| Statistics & Operational Research | #18 |
| English Language & Literature | #19 |
| Computer Science & Information System | #19 |
| History | #21 |
| Life Sciences & Medicine | #22 |
| Physics & Astronomy | #22 |
| Natural Sciences | #24 |
| Sociology | #25 |
| Architecture | #28 |
| Arts & Humanities | #28 |
| Politics | #28 |
| Engineering- Chemical | #30 |
| Engineering & Technology | #32 |
| Engineering- Mechanical | #36 |
| Law & Legal Studies | #41 |
| Engineering- Electric & Electronic | #44 |
| Business & Management Studies | #51-100 |
| Engineering- Civil & Structural | #51-100 |
Cornell is No. 14 among the world’s universities in the 2018 QS World University Rankings, released June 7.
That is two spots up from last year’s ranking of No. 16. And it is up five rungs from its No. 19 ranking in 2015.
QS analyzed over 75 million citations from more than 12 million papers, 115,000 survey responses from employers and academics, and considered more than 4,000 universities before evaluating 980 of them.
Of those 980, Cornell ranks in the top 2 percent. Considering there are about 26,000 universities globally, Cornell ranks in the top 1 percent of universities in the world, according to QS.
The annual rankings are based on six indicators:
- academic reputation, worth 40 percent of the score;
- citations per faculty, 20 percent;
- student-to-faculty ratio, 20 percent;
- employer reputation, 10 percent;
- international faculty, 5 percent; and
- international students, 5 percent.
The latter two indicators are proxy measures for how attractive the institution is to international faculty and international students.
QS weighted the academic reputation indicator most heavily. That indicator was Cornell’s strongest of the six measures, earning a score of 99.6 out of a possible 100. Cornell gained the most ground compared with last year in its international students indicator, scoring 79.2.
Overall, Cornell earned a score of 90.7 out of a possible 100.
Earlier this spring, QS released its 2017 subject area rankings, in which Cornell’s veterinary science programs were ranked No. 2 in the world, and its agriculture programs were ranked No. 3.
Other Cornell subject areas in the top 20 included: hospitality and leisure management, No. 11; biological sciences, No. 14; statistics and operational research, No. 16; English language and literature, No. 19; environmental sciences, No. 19; and politics and international studies, No. 19.
US News Subject-wise Ranking
| Subject | Rank |
|---|---|
| Business Programs | #10 |
| Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs | #9 |
| Biological / Agricultural Engineering | #3 |
| Civil Engineering | #11 |
| Computer Engineering | #9 |
| Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering | #11 |
| Environmental / Environmental Health Engineering | #8 |
| Industrial / Manufacturing Engineering | #6 |
| Materials Engineering | #8 |
| Mechanical Engineering | #10 |
Furthermore, ‘Design Intelligence’ ranked the architecture institutes in the US and published the list in the Architectural Record. According to it, Cornell was placed at:
- #1 spot among the ‘Top 10 Most Admired Architecture Undergraduate Programs’
- #5 spot among the ‘Top 10 Most Admired Architecture Graduate Programs’
Cornell University Non-Academic Rankings
Apart from the academics, Cornell seems to have made its mark in other spheres too! Let’s have a look at the non-academic rankings conferred by different ranking agencies.
US News
- #17 in National Universities (tie)
- #3 in Best Colleges for Veterans
- #61 in Best Undergraduate Teaching (tie)
- #23 in Best Value Schools
- #19 in Most Innovative Schools (tie)
- #224 in Top Performers on Social Mobility
- #64 in First-Year Experiences (tie)
- #27 in Service Learning (tie)
- #18 in Co-ops/Internships
- #4 in Writing in the Disciplines
- #45 in Study Abroad (tie)
- #23 in Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects (tie)
THE: 22 nd World Reputation Rankings 2019
Niche:
- #19 of 1,385 Best College Food in America
- # 19 of 585 Best Colleges that Accept the Common App in America
- #20 of 1,664 Hardest Colleges to Get Into in America
- #24 of 1,592 Best Value Colleges in America
- #118 of 838 Best Greek Life Colleges in America
- #162 of 1,417 Best College Campuses in America
- #166 of 1,578 Top Party Schools in America
- #376 of 1,407 Best College Athletics in America
- #488 of 1,692 Most Liberal Colleges in America
- #945 of 1,379 Safest College Campuses in America
Considering the exceptional rankings attained by Cornell University in all the spheres, getting accepted here is like a dream come true. It can be very well inferred from these rankings that Cornell is committed towards supporting overall development to its students by providing facilities in the best possible ways.
