The relationship between department rank and college rank in engineering graduate program rankings conducted by U. S. News and World Report

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-72

  Vojak, Bruce A ^a,b   Price, Raymond L ^a   Carnahan, James V ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; HEURISTIC METHODS; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COLLEGE RANKINGS; DEPARTMENT RANKINGS; ENGINEERING COLLEGES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 3142721923     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2003.tb00739.x     Document Type: Article

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