U.S. News and World Report has once again positioned MIT’s graduate engineering program at the pinnacle of its yearly assessments, made public today. The Institute has maintained the No. 1 rank since 1990, the year the publication first evaluated such programs.

The MIT Sloan School of Management also achieved a prominent position, as revealed in the rankings published on April 8. It holds the No. 5 rank for the premier graduate business programs.

Within specific engineering fields, MIT secured the top position in six categories: aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering (jointly with the University of California at Berkeley), electrical/electronic/communications engineering (shared with Stanford University and Berkeley), materials engineering, and mechanical engineering. It ranked second in nuclear engineering and third in biomedical engineering/bioengineering.

In the evaluations of distinct MBA specializations, MIT attained first place in four categories: information systems, production/operations, project management, and supply chain/logistics. It was ranked second in business analytics and third in entrepreneurship.

U.S. News formulates its rankings of graduate programs in engineering and business based on two types of data: surveys of reputation among deans and other academic leaders, and statistical metrics that assess the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and student body. The magazine’s less frequent assessments of graduate programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities rely exclusively on reputational surveys. Among the disciplines assessed this year, MIT was ranked first in computer science, and its PhD program in economics also received a first-place ranking (tied with Harvard University, Stanford, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago).