Case Western Reserve University

A top-ranked research university operating since 1826 is Case Western Reserve University, or CWRU. For 2021, CWRU is ranked at number 42 in the top 50 universities in the USA by US News & World Report's National University category. CWRU's higher admission rate of 27%, early acceptance rate of 31.8%, and above average freshmen retention rate of 93% help it rank in the top 50 universities in the United States. As a result, CWRU is ranked #42 nationally based on admissions and applications from both domestic and foreign students. Search Admissions at Case Western Reserve. In contrast, CWRU is ranked #142 in the world according to US News & World Report's list of universities for 2021. Due to CWRU's increase in retention rate and student satisfaction rate, the rankings fell from #152 in 2018 to #155 in 2019 and 2020.

Rankings have fluctuated over the years starting in 2018 when looking at THE Ranking for 2021 at #121. Case Western Reserve University was ranked #126 in 2017 and moved up 32 spots to #158 in 2018. The rating constantly declined from 2019 to 2020, a two-year span. Finally, CWRU's position in 2021 stabilised at 2 points higher than in 2020. According to the QS World University Ranking, a similar pattern of unpredictable increase and decline in ranking may be seen. CWRU's ranking for 2021 is #162, down from #167 in 2020. Due to CWRU's 86.3 professor-to-student ratio, 75.9 citations per faculty, 74.1 foreign student ratio, and total score of 48.2, it ranks #162 in the QS World University Ranking for 2021.

All levels of study—undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral—offer a selection of management programmes at Case Western Reserve University. Weatherhead School of Management offers management programmes, and according to QS University Rankings for 2021, CWRU ranks between 150 and 200 in the global MBA category. The management programmes at CWRU are ranked between 176 and 200 according to THE - PG Business and Economics Ranking 2021. US News & World Report routinely puts CWRU's undergraduate business programmes at #38 for 2020 and 2021, while the graduate business school is ranked at #88 for the same year.

According to the THE - PG & Engineering Technology category for 2021, the CWRU School of Engineering is rated 101–125. Biomedical engineering is ranked at #19 (lowest) in US News & World Report's ranking of PG Engineering & Technology courses, while civil engineering is ranked at #53. According to the same survey for UG engineering programmes, Mechanical Engineering's rating fell from #34 in 2020 to #30 in 2021.