Rankings

July 08, 2022
Case Western Reserve’s drama program again earns acclaim in The Hollywood Reporter’s annual rankings
Completion of Maltz Performing Arts Center, other enhancements take department 15th in the world—up three positions from 2021 Case Western Reserve University’s drama program has once again entered the spotlight. For the fifth consecutive year, its theater offerings made The Hollywood Reporter’s…

March 29, 2022
Engineering programs climb overall, and across multiple categories Case Western Reserve University's two schools with highest graduate student enrollment each posted gains in this year's U.S. News & World Report graduate and professional school rankings, and two of its smaller schools…

September 13, 2021
Case Western Reserve remained at 42nd in this year’s U.S. News & World Report national universities’ rankings, while the university’s undergraduate nursing program debuted at 10th in the magazine’s inaugural rating of bachelor’s programs in the discipline. The campus saw minor moves in most…

March 30, 2021
Case Western Reserve’s health-related graduate and professional programs continued their prominence in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, with eight specialty programs among the top 15 in the nation, and our medical school still in the top 25. The Frances Payne Bolton School of…

September 14, 2020
Case Western Reserve fell two notches to 42nd this year as U.S. News & World Report changed its rankings methodology for the third time in three years. The dip came despite a five-point jump in the university’s overall score, which reflected progress in its financial resources rank,…

March 17, 2020
Edited at 10:54 a.m.: This article has been updated to reflect nursing school rankings. Case Western Reserve’s health-related programs kept their impressive positions in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings—and in some cases, improved upon them. The university’s medical school…

October 31, 2019
A campuswide effort to improve Case Western Reserve’s global
rankings continued to make progress across multiple publications this
year—including the world’s two most influential lists. The university came in at 119th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, a jump of 13 positions…

September 09, 2019
Case Western Reserve climbed to 40th in this
year’s U.S. News & World Report
undergraduate rankings of national universities—regaining two of the five
positions lost last year, when the publication significantly changed its
methodology. The move came thanks to modest improvements in…

September 05, 2019
A change in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) rankings methodology sent Case Western Reserve’s ranking tumbling to 52nd this year, 13 slots below its standing in 2018. For the rankings released last night, the publications chose to apply a new metric to measure student…

June 13, 2019
For the second straight year, the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program made The Hollywood Reporter's list of top 25 graduate acting programs in the world, ranking 12th—up six slots from the previous year. The Hollywood Reporter, which bases its…