Harvard and Yale to boost their engineering efforts

Harvard and Yale are boosting their engineering programs because of increased demand and competition from China, where more engineering degrees are awarded each year than in the U.S.

Both academic institutions, following the lead of Princeton University and Columbia University, added to the status, staffing and visibility of the engineering schools in the past year. Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, is enlarging its faculty by 17 percent, to 70, during the next five years. Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is expanding to 100 professors within a decade, up 43 percent.

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