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Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranks Boston University 51 among national universities for 2013. Boston University was also ranked 11th among public health graduate schools, 22nd among law schools, 22nd among social work schools, 31st among business schools, 34th among medical schools, 42nd among engineering schools, and 56th among education schools.

In 2012, Emerging, a human resources company based in Paris, and Trendence, an institute that researches employer branding, personal marketing and recruitment, ranked Boston University 17th worldwide and 7th in the United States for employability of its graduates.

QS World University Rankings in 2012 ranked Boston University 64th overall in the world, the 23rd highest ranked U.S. school on its list. It has also received the maximum five stars under the QS Stars evaluation system.

Times Higher Education in 2011 ranked Boston University 54th overall in the world, the 32nd highest ranked U.S. school on its list.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Boston University 43rd in the United States, and 71st in the world, in its 2012 list of the Top 500 Universities.

Newsweek (International Edition), in its list of the Top 100 Global Universities, ranked Boston University the 35th in the United States, and 65th in the world.

In a 2003 survey, Gallup polls asked American adults, "All in all, what would you say is the best college or university in the United States?" Boston University was one of only 35 schools to be named by at least 1% of the American public as the best school in the country.

The Biomedical Engineering Graduate and Undergraduate Programs are ranked 7th and 8th respectively in the nation and rising by U.S. News & World Report. The undergraduate program is also the sixth-largest ABET-accredited program in the nation.

Additionally, all of the professional graduate programs in the Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College rank within the top 8% in the country. The Occupational Therapy Program ranked 2nd out of 156 programs; the Physical Therapy Program ranked 16th out of 201 programs; and the Speech-Language Pathology Program ranked 21st out of 250 programs.

Business Week ranks Boston University's MBA program 38th, and its undergraduate business program 18th.

The Economist ranks Boston University School of Management 42nd among global MBA programs in 2010.

The Financial Times ranks Boston University's MBA program 68th in the world.

Quantnet ranks Boston University's Mathematical Finance program 17th in the world.

The Center for Measuring University Performance. ranks Boston University among the top 50 research universities in the country

BU is one of 96 American universities receiving the highest research classification ("RU/VH") by the Carnegie Foundation.

In 2010, the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) conducted by the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University in Turkey ranked Boston University 64th in the world and 33rd in the United States. The criteria for the URAP was an aggregation of six academic research performance indicators: current productivity (number of published articles), long-term productivity (from Google Scholar), research impact (citations from Institute for Scientific Information), impact (cumulative journal impact), quality (H-index), and international collaboration.

In the 2011 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, produced by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), which is designed to assess research universities by measuring both long-term and short-term research performance, Boston University is ranked 54th in the World and 36th in the United States.

In 2010, The Center for Measuring University Performance ranked Boston University among the top 53 American research universities overall, and among the top 33 private American research universities. Their methodology is based on data such as research publications, citations, recognitions and funding, as well as undergraduate quality such as SAT scores.

The 2012 SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), an international ranking of worldwide research institutions, ranked Boston University 129th in the world and 47th in the United States. SCImago Research Group, a Spain-based research organization, ranked schools in areas such as: research output, international collaboration, normalized impact and publication rate.