Dean's message
#11 Engineering School in the Nation
June 2024
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I am proud to share that our position improved this year in the closely watched U.S. News & World Report Best Engineering Schools rankings. We jumped to become the #11 engineering school in the nation, up from #12 last year. Among the nation's public engineering schools, we rose to #7 in the nation, up from #8 last year.
And there is even more fantastic news. This is the first year U.S. News has broadened the inputs of the rankings to include citation metrics. Citations are technically when our peer institutions cite our work, and I interpret our citations as additional affirmation that our work is state-of-the-art. When citation measures were added to the U.S. News rankings, our overall position rose.
In fact, we rank #1 in the nation among public engineering schools for citations per publication – and #5 in the nation overall in this category. I consider this citation ranking as a measure of our world-class thought leadership.
To our graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, faculty and staff – and to every single person inside and outside the Jacobs School who works behind the scenes to keep our education, research and innovation enterprise thriving – thank you! My admiration and congratulations go to you. This #1 ranking in intellectual leadership is for you!
The particulars of this citation ranking are as follows: at the Jacobs School, our average rate of citations per publication from 2019 to 2023 was the highest among all public engineering schools in the nation, and #5 overall. I am so pleased to see this much-deserved spotlight shining on our intellectual leadership. I am so pleased to see this measure of the scholarly impact we have on our colleagues in engineering and computer science throughout the country and around the world.
Schoolwide, the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering increased its research expenditures to $256M, which is up nearly five percent from last year – and higher than it has ever been. Research activity is one of the metrics that highlights the resources we have to train tomorrow’s innovation workforce while advancing engineering and computer science to improve lives.
Yes, I celebrate that we are so strong in the rankings. But at the same time, I never lose my focus on the more important things that come later – the positive impacts of the new tools, new insights, new cures and new solutions that make their way from research and papers to innovations and implementations.
Just one example is the fact that Jacobs School researchers are collaborating all across campus to advance human health and to translate discoveries to the marketplace. A sampling of our contributions to this campus-wide effort in Health Innovation are highlighted on a new campus website. Great new achievements from these efforts are imminent. I can’t wait to see the wonderful results that emerge from our ever deepening collaborations with our colleagues in UC San Diego Health Sciences and across campus.
To our entire Jacobs School community, and to everyone who empowers us in our mission to advance engineering and computer science to improve human health and to solve the toughest challenges for the public good, thank you!
Read our full June 2024 news email here.
As always, I can be reached at DeanPisano@ucsd.edu
Sincerely,
Al
Albert ("Al") P. Pisano
Dean, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives