cornell's college of engineering has been ranked as being one of the top seven engineering programs in the nation by u.s. news and world report. the engineering physics program at cornell was ranked as being no. 1 by u.s. news and world report in 2008. cornell's operations research and industrial engineering program ranked fourth in nation, along with the master's program in financial engineering. cornell's computer science program ranks among the top five in the world, and it ranks fourth in the quality of graduate education.