U.S. News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings based on the QS World University Rankings, identified Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering as number 12 in the World in the 2009 edition. Georgia Tech followed the University of California-Berkeley as the number two ranked public technological institution. In addition, the National University of Singapore, where COE has a number of joint programs, was ranked 14th in the Times of London supplement.

These updated 2009 World’s Best Universities rankings are based on data from the QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the world’s leading networks for careers and education, has been publishing world rankings since 2004. The rankings were based on Peer Review Scores from the the responses of more than 3,500 academic institution representatives around the world, and include such factors as subject area rankings, academic peer review, faculty/student ratio, and citations per faculty member.

“We are extremely pleased with our world ranking,” said Don Giddens, Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech. “Our strategic plan calls for us to invest in research and educational programs involving issues of global significance. To be recognized globally as a leader in technological education means that we are seeing positive results from our efforts.”