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For 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked BYU as 61st among national universities in the United States.[97] A 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics study of where the nation's top high school students choose to enroll ranked BYU No. 21 in its peer-reviewed study.[98] The Princeton Review has ranked BYU the best value for college in 2007,[99] and its library is consistently ranked in the nation's top ten — No. 1 in 2004 and No. 4 in 2007.[100] BYU is also ranked No. 19 in the U.S. News and World Report's "Great Schools, Great Prices" lineup, and No. 12 in lowest student-incurred debt.[101] Due in part to the school's emphasis on undergraduate research, in rankings for 2008-2009, BYU was ranked No. 10 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, No. 1 nationally for students who go on to dental school, No. 6 nationally for students who go on to law school, and No. 10 nationally for students who go on to medical school.[102][103] BYU is designated as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.[104] Forbes magazine ranked it as the No. 1 "Top University to Work For in 2014"[105] and as the best college in Utah.[106]
In 2009 the university's Marriott School of Management received a No. 5 ranking by BusinessWeek for its undergraduate programs,[107] and its MBA program was ranked by several sources: No. 22 ranking by BusinessWeek,[107] No. 16 by Forbes,[108] and No. 29 by U.S. News & World Report.[109] Among regional schools the MBA program was ranked No. 1 by The Wall Street Journal's most recent ranking (2007),[110] and it was ranked No. 92 among business schools worldwide in 2009 by Financial Times.[111] For 2009, the university's School of Accountancy, which is housed within the Marriott School, received a No. 2[112] and two No. 3 rankings for its undergraduate program—one by Public Accounting Report and the other by U.S. News & World Report.[113][114] The same two reporting agencies also ranked the school's MAcc program No. 3 and No. 8 in the nation, respectively.[113][115][116] In 2010 an article in the Wall Street Journal listing institutions whose graduates were the top-rated by recruiters ranked BYU No. 11.[116] Using 2010 fiscal year data, the Association of University Technology Managers ranked BYU No. 3 in an evaluation of universities creating the most startup companies through campus research.[117]
The BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School[118] has a No. 41 national ranking according to the U.S. News & World Report[119]
Notable research and awards
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The N. Eldon Tanner Building, home of the Marriott School of Management
Scientists associated with BYU have created some notable inventions. Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the electronic television, received his education at BYU, and later returned to do fusion research, receiving an honorary degree from the university.[120] Alumnus Harvey Fletcher, inventor of stereophonic sound, went on to carry out the now famous oil-drop experiment with Robert Millikan, and was later Founding Dean of the BYU College of Engineering.[121] H. Tracy Hall, inventor of the man-made diamond, left General Electric in 1955 and became a full professor of chemistry and Director of Research at BYU. While there, he invented a new type of diamond press, the tetrahedral press. In student achievements, BYU Ad Lab teams won both the 2007 and 2008 L'Oréal National Brandstorm Competition,[122][123] and students developed the Magnetic Lasso algorithm found in Adobe Photoshop.[124] In prestigious scholarships, BYU has produced 10 Rhodes Scholars,[125] four Gates Scholars in the last six years, and in the last decade has claimed 41 Fulbright scholars and 3 Jack Kent Cooke scholars.[126]
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