The university is a founding member of the "Top Ten" in the United States and a member of the association of american universities (AAU). Known as the "public ivy", it is also known as the "Big Three American public universities" with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan at ann arbor.
In American News and World Report 20 18, the world universities ranked 52nd [2]; In Times Higher Education 20 15, it ranks 36th among the world universities and 30th among the world universities. Academic ranking of world universities Shanghai Jiaotong University ranked 30th on 20 16.
The school has been committed to excellent research, teaching and public participation. Among its alumni and professors, 28 [3] won the Nobel Prize, second only to the University of California at Berkeley, and 25 won the Pulitzer Prize.
Many disciplines of the school are well-known, and its engineering school is the highest level in the United States and even the world, and has been ranked in the top five among the engineering schools of American universities. Almost all engineering majors rank in the top ten in the United States, electrical, civil, materials, agriculture, environment, machinery and other majors rank in the top five in the United States, and computer majors rank second in the United States [4]; Business schools are also very strong, accounting and finance majors are first-class in the United States, and accounting majors rank in the top two in the United States.
Alumni majoring in computer science have created (or participated in creating) world-famous companies and IT products such as Tesla, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Youtube, Paypal, AMD, Mozilla, Netscape and Yelp, as well as programming languages such as JavaScript and Swift.
The school has the third largest university library in the United States, second only to Harvard University and Yale University.