University Rankings

Business (41st)

• Economics (87th)

Engineering (42nd)

• Biomedical Engineering (17th)
• Computer Science (78th)

Nursing (13th)

52nd - Overall
19th - Biomedical Engineering
35th Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering
47th Mechanical Engineering

107th - Overall
60th - Clinical Training
13th - Health Law
73rd - Intellectual Property Law
13th - International Law

82nd - Full-time MBA programs
58th - Part-time MBA programs 

25th - Medical research schools
71st - Primary care schools 

*Data as of 2024, Expected update in Spring 2026

9th - DNP Program
20th - MSN Program 
6th - Master's Nursing Administration
6th - DNP - Leadership
11th - DNP - Family
29th - Midwifery
33rd - Anesthesia

12th among more than 250 accredited master's program 

*Data as of 2024, Expected update in Spring 2026

The Center for Measuring University Performance (University of Massachusetts).

The center ranks universities on nine indicators, including research support, significant awards to faculty, endowment assets, annual private contributions, doctorates awarded, and average SAT scores. (The Top American Research Universities, December 2018)The center ranks universities on nine indicators, including research support, significant awards to faculty, endowment assets, annual private contributions, doctorates awarded, and average SAT scores. (The Top American Research Universities, December 2018)

Times Higher Education ranked CWRU 145th in the world (of 2,191) and 46th in the US (of 171) in its 2026 world university rankings. Factors in the rankings include peer assessments and citations per faculty member.

The results in Nature Index 2022 Innovation, a supplement to the multidisciplinary journal Nature, ordered universities and institutes based on citations of their research articles in other organizations’ patent documents.

The Brookings Institution report “Hidden in plain sight: The oversized impact of downtown universities” finds that leading higher education institutions located within major metropolitan areas dramatically outpace suburban and rural peers in research-related economic activity. Case Western Reserve ranked 13th overall, but stood at sixth for its number of patents per 1,000 students, at 4.1. The university's licensing deals (2.7) and new businesses per 1,000 students (0.4) each ranked 13th, while licensing income per student, at $155, was 26th.

The National Science Foundation compared the baccalaureate institutions of 2002-2011 science and engineering doctorate recipients with the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in all fields nine years earlier. CWRU ranked 16th, with 8.4 doctorate recipients per hundred bachelor's degrees awarded. Only six research universities, all private, had higher percentages (NSF InfoBrief 13-323, April 2013)

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Reuters 100 ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy, and relies exclusively on empirical data such as patent filings and research paper citations in its methodology. Case Western Reserve University was ranked 67th in the 2018.

Reuters 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities