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Princeton Review
- UC among 'Nation's Best' -- UC has been named as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education for the fifth straight year, according to the Princeton's Review's 2012 edition of "The Best 376 Colleges." (2012)
- College of Law, among best 172 -- UC's College of Law is ranked among the top schools in the country. (2011, '09, '05)
- Lindner College of Business among best 301 -- UC's College of Business is ranked one of the best, based largely upon the opinions of students.(2011, '09)
- 19th most diverse -- UC is ranked 19th in the nation for having a diverse student population. (2009)
- Entrepreneur Program in top 25 -- UC's undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the Lindner College of Business is ranked 21st among Princeton's "Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges." (2008)
- Named a "Green University" -- UC is the only public institution so desiginated in Ohio.
Chronicle of Higher Education
- At top of Fulbright Scholar list — Among research institutions, the University of Cincinnati ranked near the top of the list when the Chronicle published "Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Scholars." UC had seven faculty earning Fulbrights, surpassing Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Ohio State universities. Only four universities ranked ahead of UC (Pennsylvania State, University of Kansas, Arizona State and New York University). Fulbright awards allow faculty to teach and conduct research internationally.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Research classification — UC is classified as a "Very High Research Activity" university, placing us among 35 research-intensive universities to receive the classification.
- Community Engagement -- UC is received a Community Engagement classification, acknowledging UC's emphasis on service in improving teaching and learning, as well as its commitment to benefiting the local and global community. (2011)
DesignIntelligence
- Industrial design No. 1 (undergrad) and 2 (grad) -- UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning was named as having the country's best industrial design program for undergraduate study (tied with Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif.) and the No. 2 program for graduate studies (tied with Art Center College of Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology). (2012)
- Interior design No. 3 -- For the past decade, DAAP’s undergraduate interior design program has ranked in the top three in the nation. (2012)
- No. 10 for architecture -- DAAP’s graduate architecture program ranked No. 10. (2012)
International Student Barometer
- Among the top 15 worldwide -- The 2011 International Student Barometer, the largest survey of international college students in the world, rates UC among the top 15 in the world. In these categories, UC not only placed in the top 15 worldwide, but also in the No. 1 spot in the U.S. — opportunities to teach, earning money and financial support. UC also placed high in the following other categories:
- Top 15 in these global categories — expert lecturers, good teachers, grading criteria, sports facilities, visa advice, finance office, welcome, student advising.
- No. 1 in these U.S. categories — managing research, learning spaces, online library, technology, Internet access, response to offer.
London (UK) Times Higher Education Supplement
- 190th in the world -- The Times Higher Education supplement, emphasizing research universities, ranks the University of Cincinnati 190th among all the universities in the world, 69th among United States universities and 28th among public U.S. universities. (2011, '09)
Academic Ranking of World Universities
- Top 300 in the world -- UC places in the top 300 worldwide universities, out of more than 2,500 universities ranked by the influential Academic Ranking of World Universities. The study was published by Shanghai Jiaotong University. (2010, '07)
- Top 100 of American universities (2010)
National Research Council
- 7th in country — UC's classical PhD program ranked 7th best in country. (2011)
Poets & Writers magazine
- Creative writing doctoral program No. 8 in nation —- Department head Russel Durst largely attributes the placement to "the accomplishments of the faculty, who in recent years have produced prize-winning books and won highly competitive awards including the Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award.” (2011)
Fashionista.com (based in New York City)
- No. 12 in the country — The UC fashion design program in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning was included in rankings of the top 20 fashion design programs in the nation and placed 12th. Judges looked at jobs procured, opinions of people in the industry and standout program offerings. (2011)
Diverse Issues In Higher Education
- Top 100 -- The University of Cincinnati is ranked among the Top 100 schools in awarding master’s degrees to African American and Native American students. UC also ranks among the Top 100 schools in awarding doctoral degrees to African American, Asian and Native American students, and in awarding medical degrees to African American students. (2010)
Chronicle of Higher Education
- 'Research heavyweight' — The publication calls UC a "research heavyweight."
Webometric
- No. 178 in the world -- The Cybermetrics Lab in Spain measures "the performance and impact of universities through their web presence," ranking the University of Cincinnati 178 in the world. Webometrics scores each university on four criteria, the most heavily weighted being the number of links to the institution's website from other sites -- a way of evaluating that site's general impact on the web community say the rankers. (2010)
Architect Magazine
- Top 5 -- In the first edition of a guide to architecture schools in the U.S., UC's architecture program placed in the nation’s Top 5 in delivering a "practice-based education." (2010)
SCImago Research Group
- The SCImago Research Group's Institutions Rankings World Report 2010 combines four global indicators revealing performance, institutions' ability to generate scientific knowledge and to achieve international visibility. UC ranks as follows:
- 150th in the world out of 2,833 institutions (2010)
- 60th among U.S. institutions (2010)
Washington Monthly
- Research among nation's best -- UC is ranked 134th among 258 of the nation’s best schools promoting social mobility, research and service. (Sept. 2009)
- Hero of higher ed -- UC is 168th on a list of 242 U.S. universities that are "heroes of higher education," selected according to performance as an engine of social mobility, fostering of scientific and humanistic research, and promotion of an ethic of service to the country. (Sept. 2007)
BusinessWeek magazine
- Lindner College of Business in top 100 -- UC’s business school placed 87th out of 113 public and private undergraduate programs listed as the country's best. (2011) The undergraduate accounting program placed in the nation's top 10. (2009)
- School of Design among world's best -- The DAAP school was listed among the best 60 design programs in the world. (Oct. 2009, '07 & '06)
Journal of Criminal Justice Education
- Criminal Justice No. 1 in research productivity -- The School of Criminal Justice (in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services) has led the nation in having the most published researchers in the field for 10 years, according to a Journal of Criminal Justice survey. UC has placed No. 1 in the last two surveys, which are conducted every five years. The ranking is based upon the number of articles published during the previous five years and weighted by the quality of the journal. (late 2007)
Industrial Designers Society of America
- School of Design among top four in world -- The DAAP school was one of four to receive an International Design Excellence Award, considered the "gold standard" and sponsored by the society and BusinessWeek magazine. The other four schools were from South Korea, the Netherlands and Milwaukee. (July 2007)
Planetizen Guide
- Graduate urban-planning 20th in U.S. -- The DAAP urban-planning master's degree program ranks 20th in the nation and fifth in the Midwest, according to the Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs. Additionally, the guide placed the program sixth in the nation for providing training to international students and ninth in the nation for offering the best financial aid packages. With its Top-25 ranking, UC stands with other such schools as Harvard, Cornell and MIT. Planetizen is the only ranking system that currently exists for Schools of Planning. (2009)
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics
(2007, the most recent report available)
- These programs placed in the following rankings among nearly 7,400 doctoral programs in the country in terms of faculty productivity:
- Biological sciences No. 2 -- Only Harvard ranked higher.
- Classics and classical languages No. 3
- Criminology and Justice Studies No. 6
- Environmental engineering No. 6
- Ecology No. 6
- Physiology No. 7
- Biomedical sciences No. 9
- Special education No. 9
- Toxicology No. 10
National Science Foundation
- One of America’s top 25 public research — UC is so ranked.
Money magazine
- 'Value' No. 62 -- In the magazine's last College Guide, UC was ranked 62nd among Money's 100 "elite values" in higher education. (2005, guide has not been updated since then)
Entrepreneur Awards
- Grand champs -- University of Cincinnati graduate students were named “Co-Grand Champions” in the 2008 Best-Strategy Invitational (BSI) online strategy competition. UC’s team, “Everymans Cneakers,” bested 10 other teams to share the grand championship with the team from Pennsylvania State University – York. UC students also brought home the first-place prize for a field-case consulting project in the February 2008 Small Business Institute competition. (2008)
Journal of Real Estate Economics
- No. 5 in real estate -- UC is the fifth most influential real estate research institution in the U.S., based on the quality of faculty research and literary citations in journals. UC's Real Estate Center placed ahead of schools such as Cornell, Harvard, Wisconsin and Yale. (2007)
American Institute of Architects
- Steger building among world's best -- The AIA's international rankings of the world's most notable projects placed UC's Steger Student Life Center among 11 of the world's most exciting buildings. (2006)
Gold medal for dining
- UC's CenterCourt Dining in the Campus Recreation Center won gold medal status for its innovations in college dining from the National Association of College and University Food Services. (2006)
Committee on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
- Clermont program in top 20 -- Clermont College's Surgical Technology Program is rated one of the top 20 among 360 programs by the Accreditation Review Committee for Education in Surgical Technology. (2006)
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