August 17, 2010
ECE Undergraduate Program Ranked Among the Best
U.S. News & World Report has released this year's national rankings of undergraduate programs. Purdue ranks #8 among engineering programs at doctoral-granting universities, tied with Carnegie-Mellon and Cornell.
The discipline rankings are:
- Industrial/manufacturing engineering - #3; last year #3
- Agricultural/biological engineering - #3; last year #2
- Aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering - #4; last year #4
- Civil engineering - #5; last year #5, tied with MIT
- Mechanical engineering - #7; last year #7
- Electrical/electronic/communications engineering - #9; last year #10
- Computer engineering - #11; last year #11
- Chemical engineering - #12; last year #13
- Materials engineering - #12, tied with UC-Santa Barbara; last year #12
- Environmental - #13, tied with U. Florida; last year #11, tied with Cal Tech and U. Florida
- Biomedical engineering - #19, tied with Wisconsin-Madison; BME was not in the top 24 last year
- Nuclear engineering programs are not ranked by USN&WR every year and were not ranked this year or last year