to earn the "Innovation and Economic Prosperity University" designation by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
The agriculture and forestry programs were ranked 16th in the world by QS for 2020. The statistics program was tied for 20th in the U.S. according to U.S. News & World Report for 2018. ISU's chemistry and physics programs are ranked in the Top 100 globally and in Top 50 nationally. ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication is among the first group of accredited journalism and mass communication programs.
The National Science Foundation ranks ISU 71st in the nation in total research and development expenditures and 94th in research and development expenditures for science and engineering.
In 2016, ISU's landscape architecture program was ranked as the 10th best undergraduate program in the nation, and architecture as the 18th best.
=== Parks Library ===
The W. Robert and Ellen Sorge Parks Library contains over 2.6 million books and subscribes to more than 98,600 …
