The department has been rated number three in the world, after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley.

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The rankings are based on academic and employer reputation (based on a global survey of academics), research citations per paper and h-index in the relevant subject (sourced from Elsevier’s Scopus database).  The indicators receive different weighting in each discipline.