Programs
Clarkson provides education for undergraduates, graduate students and early college students through the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Business, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and the Clarkson School.
At the undergraduate level, students study in more than 50 majors and minors, including multidisciplinary degrees in engineering & management (E&M), environmental science & policy, digital arts & sciences, and innovation & entrepreneurship.
At the graduate level, Clarkson’s School of Arts & Sciences, School of Business, Institute for a Sustainable Environment and Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering provide programs of study leading to degrees in master of business administration, master of engineering, master of science, master of physician assistant studies, doctor of physical therapy and doctor of philosophy.
Clarkson University is home to the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP). CAMP is dedicated to developing Clarkson's research and educational programs in high-technology materials processing. Its mandate is to develop innovations in advanced materials processing and to transfer this technology to business and industry. The center receives support from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research for research and operating expenses as one of 14 Centers for Advanced Technology (CATs). In addition, CAMP-related work receives several million dollars each year from the federal government and private industry.
Clarkson's sixteen Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED) teams allow students across all majors to participate in hands-on, extracurricular projects.
Clarkson participates in student exchange programs with many schools in Europe and Australia. One example is the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where students who are studying engineering come to Clarkson for a year as part of one of the exchange programs.
U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings "America's Best Colleges" placed Clarkson University in tier one, the top tier of national universities, with a ranking of 119, and No. 35 on the Best Value Schools list, which takes into account a school's academic quality, as indicated by its 2012 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking, and the 2010–2011 net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid. The survey editors also placed Clarkson University in the "A+ Options for B Students" list. The Supply Chain Management program was listed among the 20 best in the nation for the tenth consecutive year, ranked number 15 in Supply Chain Management/Logistics.
Clarkson is #20 on the Fifty Most Affordable with a Return on Investment list, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2011.
Clarkson is among the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, by Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges: 2011
U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2012 ranks Clarkson 38th overall in Environmental Engineering and 58th in Civil Engineering.
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