Looking at Carnegie Mellon by the numbers could mean many different things: 35,846 admission applications; 5,982 admitted students; 90 different programs and majors; 19 Nobel Prize winners. Here are some new impressive numbers to mull over.

V12n1 Nfh 3If you need a list of the most important people working in robotics today, Business Insider has you covered. The magazine curated an unranked list of the 15 most influential figures in robotics, and Carnegie Mellon professor Raj Reddy and research professor Reid Simmons both landed a spot. Reddy founded the university’s Robotics Institute, now the largest robotics research and education organization, and won the Alan Turing prize in 1994 for his work in artificial intelligence. Simmons’ navigation software guided NASA’s Deep Space 1.

Thomson Reuters, the “leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals” has published the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014” by identifying the top 3,200 most highly cited researchers across 21 fields over a period of 10 years. Thomson Reuters named seven Carnegie Mellon faculty members in this elite group.

In addition to faculty, also making the list were CMU President Subra Suresh—materials science

And, the researcher who has published the greatest number of papers ranked in the top 0.1% of his/her respective field During 2012-2013) is CMU alumna Stacey Gabriel (S’93)—genomics

FounderDating, a networking and collaboration service for entrepreneurs, named 30 of the most entrepreneurial schools, situating Carnegie Mellon as number 5, ahead of peer schools like Princeton, Brown, Yale, and Cornell and behind only Babson, Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. The list ranks the best “schools that currently have alumni who are ready to start new companies – including repeat entrepreneurs.”

A comprehensive online resource for climate change, Decarboni.se, recently ranked universities studying climate change. Among U.S. schools, CMU ranked #4, and the report cited in particular the creation of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, a university-wide research initiative.

For the first time, LinkedIn has released its University Rankings, which are “based on career outcomes from university to career to see which schools are launching graduates into desirable jobs.” There were eight categories, and CMU was ranked #1 in two of them: Designers; Software Developers. CMU was also ranked #6 for Software Developers at Startups and  #20 for Finance Professionals. Not long after the rankings were released, Josh Zumbrun, national economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, tweeted: “Stanford, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, and NYU are the only schools worth attending, according to LinkedIn.”

—Shannon Deep (CMU’10, HNZ’11)