Mason Tops U.S. News List of Schools to Watch

Mason was named the nation's number one university to watch on U.S. News and World Report's new list of "Up-and-Coming Schools" published on Friday, Aug. 22.

From Provost Stearns

On August 15, Shanghai Jiao Tong University's new Academic Ranking of World Universities was released (see www.arwu.org.) For the first time, George Mason is ranked in the top 100 North and Latin American Universities---we
are ranked 78-99. See http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/
ARWU2008_TopAmer(EN).htm

In the 2009 world ranking, we come in at 152-200. See
http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/
ARWU2008_B(EN).htm