Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) has nosed out Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to top Yahoo Internet Life magazine's list of the 'most wired colleges' in the United States, which was published earlier this month.
The university, in Cleveland, Ohio, ranked 13th when the list was introduced in 1997, but fell to 63rd place last year.
'We understood where we were deficient and we fixed it,' Raymond Neff, vice-president for information services, said.
'It's wonderful news. I'm very pleased,' said CWRU president Agnar Pytte.
'The credit goes to all the people who have put in place the network and all of the electronics and optics that go with it, and to all the faculty and students who have come up with imaginative uses of it,' Professor Pytte said.
Toni Searle of CWRU said the survey took into account several considerations, including hardware, and the types of free services provided.