	Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 2016 University Academic Rankings
Olin College of Engineering (also known as Olin College or simply Olin) is a private undergraduate engineering college in Needham, Massachusetts, adjacent to Babson College. Olin College is noted in the engineering community for its youth, small size, project-based curriculum, and large endowment funded primarily by the F. W. Olin Foundation. The college covers half of each admitted student's tuition through the Olin Scholarship. History Olin College was founded by the F. W. Olin Foundation in 1997. The trustees were concerned about perpetuating Franklin W. Olin's donor intent indefinitely, so the foundation's president, Lawrence W. Milas, proposed creating a college. â€œWe always had a bias toward supporting science and engineering schools because Mr. Olin was an engineer," Milas said. â€œI was concerned with whether or not this would be consistent with what Mr. Olin had ever considered. I went back and read minutes of board meetings. And sure enough, in the late 1940s, at two or three board meetings shortly before his death, he expressed the idea of starting a new institution." By 2005, the foundation had donated most of its financial resources to the college, providing Olin with an endowment of about $460 million. Richard Miller was inaugurated as the college's first president on May 3, 2003. Miller was also the first employee of Olin College, and had been working as its president for several years before he was officially inaugurated. In a program known as Invention 2000, Olin College hired its first faculty members and invited 30 students, known as Olin Partners, to help it form a curriculum. The students lived in temporary housing and spent their first year after high school investigating assessment and grading methods, jump-starting the student culture, and experimenting with forms of engineering education. Olin admitted its first full class of 75 students in 2002. This class included the Olin Partners, a group of deferred students known as the Virtual Olin Partners, and recent high school graduates. After admitting three more classes, the college reached its full size of approximately 300 students in fall 2005. It currently has an average of 350 students each year. Olin's campus was designed by the architecture firm Perry Dean Rogers in the postmodern style. The first phase, comprising four buildings, was completed in 2002. The construction of a second dormitory, East Hall, was finished in fall 2005. Future plans include an academic building that would contain additional machine shops and project space. Olin shares many campus services, including health, public safety, and athletic facilities, with Babson College. The Olin experiment Much of Olin College's curriculum is built around hands-on engineering and design projects. This project-based teaching begins in a student's first year and culminates in two senior "capstone" projects. In the engineering capstone, student teams are hired by corporations, non-profit organizations, or entrepreneurial ventures for real-world engineering projects. In the arts, humanities, and social sciences capstone or the entrepreneurship capstone, students work on self-designed projects. All accepted students receive the Olin Scholarship, which pays for half of tuition and covers cross-registration with Babson College, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University. Olin also shares clubs and intramural sports with the aforementioned colleges. In addition to the Olin Scholarship, the college provides need-based grants. It used to provide full-tuition scholarships, but in 2009, responding to a significant decline in the college's endowment caused by the Great Recession, the trustees decided to reduce the scholarships to half-tuition starting with the class of 2015.< ... [more on wikipedia]

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Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Details

Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Details
detail	value
state	Massachusetts
conference	No Conference Affiliation
public	Private
scores	2214/1476/33
level	Elite
rank	[48
overall ROI rank	[53
size	tiny
undergrads	350
grads	0
price	63801
drop	4
stem	79
research	0
scores valid	True

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What are the academic rankings for Franklin W Olin College of Engineering?

1. number 48 for Academics.

2. number 53 for ROI (Return on Investment).

What universities are similar to Franklin W Olin College of Engineering?

1. Harvey Mudd College

2. California Institute of Technology

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4. Carnegie Mellon University

5. Georgia Institute of Technology

6. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

7. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Franklin W Olin College of Engineering National Academic Rankings

Franklin W Olin College of Engineering National Academic Rankings
category	rank	scores	difficulty	smartest	brainpower	faculty	research	salary ROI	overall ROI
Top250	48	10	7	65	44	153	159	100	53
All	40	10	7	64	44	82	82	52	40
All Nonivy	34	6	6	57	36	79	79	50	32
Private	25	10	6	36	30	53	53	47	29
Stem High	9	3	5	9	8	32	32	30	18
Stem Low	32	8	6	46	32	80	80	62	45
New England Region	20	6	3	30	19	60	60	24	15
State of Massachusetts	5	3	2	7	6	12	12	6	4
Top Ten Top250	48	10	7	65	44	153	159	100	53
Top Ten Stem High	7	3	5	9	8	9	9	9	9
Top Ten State of Massachusetts	5	3	2	7	6	9	9	5	4

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match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
76.24	Harvey Mudd College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	49	19
75.71	California Institute of Technology	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	1	5
73.85	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts	New England Football Conferenc...	Private	Elite	5	2
73.73	Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	University Athletic Association	Private	Elite	21	9
73.49	Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Elite	6	1
69.28	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	New York	No Conference Affiliation	Private	Excellent	109	69
67.69	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Indiana	Heartland Collegiate Athletic ...	Private	Excellent	159	60
67.47	Stevens Institute of Technology	New Jersey	Empire Eight	Private	Excellent	99	43
67.26	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	Mountain West Conference	Public	Excellent	91	30
67.22	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Massachusetts	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Excellent	73	40
67.18	United States Naval Academy	Maryland	Division I Independents / Patr...	Public	Excellent	126	48
67.08	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Excellent	27	34
66.75	University of California-Berkeley	California	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	Excellent	18	26

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match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
97.61	Harvey Mudd College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	49	19
95.34	Brown University	Rhode Island	Ivy League	Private	Elite	25	34
95.16	Pomona College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	52	125
93.70	Ivy League (Low)	-	Ivy League	-Conf-	Elite	-	21
93.40	University of Notre Dame	Indiana	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Elite	31	12
92.81	Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	University Athletic Association	Private	Elite	21	9
92.11	Georgetown University	Washington DC	Patriot League / Big East Conf...	Private	Elite	42	88
91.48	Northeastern University	Massachusetts	Colonial Athletic Association	Private	Elite	40	109
91.41	Boston College	Massachusetts	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	47	75
91.04	Case Western Reserve University	Ohio	Presidents' Athletic Conferenc...	Private	Excellent	28	14
90.66	Emory University	Georgia	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	36	29
90.47	New York University	New York	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	35	101
89.53	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Excellent	27	34
89.24	University of Rochester	New York	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	39	93
89.15	Brandeis University	Massachusetts	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	46	116
88.86	University Athletic Association (Low)	-	University Athletic Association	-Conf-	Excellent	-	32
86.62	SUNY at Binghamton	New York	America East	Public	Excellent	65	125
86.11	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	66	50
85.51	University of Miami	Florida	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	44	93
85.39	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
85.16	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Massachusetts	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Excellent	73	40
85.01	University of California-San Diego	California	Division II Independents	Public	Excellent	26	70
84.37	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	69	32
84.04	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
83.04	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Excellent	37	64
81.62	Polytechnic Institute of New York University	New York	No Reported Affiliation	Private	Good	76	72
80.82	Ohio State University	Ohio	Big Ten Conference	Public	Good	40	43
80.75	University of Florida	Florida	Southeastern Conference	Public	Good	43	38
80.58	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	Pennsylvania	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Good	50	75
79.84	The University of Texas at Dallas	Texas	American Southwest Conference	Public	Good	70	55
78.99	The University of Texas at Austin	Texas	Big Twelve Conference	Public	Good	38	51
78.01	Stony Brook University	New York	Colonial Athletic Association ...	Public	Good	62	109
77.78	University of California-Santa Barbara	California	Big West Conference	Public	Good	63	122
76.40	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	58	31
75.40	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	Washington	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	Good	55	66

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