This school is a top research-oriented top 100 universities in the world. The university is a founding member of the "Top Ten Alliances" in the United States and is known as the "public Ivy League". Together with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan at ann arbor, it is called "the Big Three of American Public Universities".

Many disciplines in the school are well-known by Yelp, and its engineering school is the highest level in the United States and even the world. It has been ranked in the top five in the American Academy of Engineering, almost all engineering majors are ranked in the top ten in the United States, electrical, civil, materials, agriculture, environment, machinery and other majors are ranked in the top five in the United States, and computer majors are ranked second in the United States. Computer alumni founded (or participated in the creation of) Tesla, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Youtube, Paypal and AMD. ; The academic research of the School of Communication is the top in the world and the birthplace of communication discipline. 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.

20 18 Times Higher Education ranked 37th; ARWU ranked 37th with 20 17.