Engineering, education and MBA program among nation’s best

Graduate programs in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Education, and the College of Business and Economics are ranked among the best in the nation, according to the recently released 2016 U.S. News and World Report Graduate School Rankings.

Lehigh’s engineering college was ranked 49th out of 195 eligible to be included in the annual rankings. The College of Education was ranked 46th out of 246 education colleges.

Lehigh’s online MBA program was ranked 12th out of 196 master’s programs that deliver all required course work via distance education courses.  The part-time MBA program was ranked 64th out of 282 graduate schools.

The rankings will appear in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools 2016” guidebook, which is posted online today and will appear in print in late March.