COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO \u2013 The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the best in the nation, according to the editors of U.S. News and World Report.<\/p>\n
In the 2008 college rankings edition, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Colleges,\u201d to be released Aug. 20, the magazine\u2019s editors ranked the UCCS undergraduate engineering program ninth in the nation among public engineering schools offering bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s degrees. The magazine\u2019s editors ranked all of UCCS tenth among public Western universities.<\/p>\n
For the past several years, UCCS ranked in the top tier of all public and private master\u2019s universities in the West. Master\u2019s universities provide a full range of undergraduate and master\u2019s degree programs.<\/p>\n
In ranking more than 1,400 colleges and universities, U.S. News relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality. Among the measures are student retention rates, graduation rates and class size.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am pleased the quality of UCCS is being recognized from a non-partisan and objective point of view,\u201d Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said. \u201cRankings serve as a way of highlighting the high-quality and relatively low costs of a public education in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other top engineering programs at public engineering schools offering bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s degrees, include the California Polytechnic-San Luis Obispo, U. S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, California State University-Pomona, Rowan (N.J) University, San Jose (Calif.) State University, Virginia Military Institute, and California State University, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Other universities cited as top public universities in the West were: California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo, Western Washington University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Evergreen (Wash.) State College, California State University-Long Beach, California Polytechnic University-Pomona, California State University-Chico, San Jose (Calif.) State University, Sonoma (Calif.) State University, California State University-Fullerton, California State University-Stanislaus, Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University and Texas State University-San Marcos.<\/p>\n
The rankings are available on-line at www.usnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n UCCS, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado, and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The University offers 29 bachelor\u2019s degrees, 18 masters\u2019, and four doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 7,600 students annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO \u2013 The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the best in the nation, according to the editors of U.S. News and World Report. In the (Full Press Release)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}