March 14, 2012
ECE Graduate Programs Ranked Among the Best
Purdue University's engineering programs remain among the best in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's rankings of the top graduate schools.
Once again, Purdue engineering’s disciplines are all ranked in the top 25, with five in the top 10, and ten in the top 15. The discipline rankings are based entirely on peer evaluations, whereas the college rankings are a combination of peer and recruiter assessments, along with a variety of performance-based factors
| 2013 Ranking | 2012 Ranking | |
| College | #10, tied with Cornell | #11, 2-way tie |
| ABE | #1 | #1, 2-way tie |
| AAE | #6 | #6 |
| CE | #6, tied with MIT | #3, 4-way tie |
| ME | #9, tied with Cornell | #9 |
| EE | #10, tied with Princeton | #11, 2-way tie |
| CmpE | #11 | #12 |
| ChE | #14, tied with Carnegie Mellon & Northwestern | #15 |
| MSE | #14, tied with Carnegie Mellon | #16, 3-way tie |
| IE | #15 | #10, 2-way tie |
| NE | #11, tied with Oregon State | #12, 2-way tie |
| EEE | #19, tied with Penn State & U Minnesota | #16, 5-way tie |
| BME | #23, tied with U Minnesota, U Virginia & U Wisconsin-Madison | #23, 5-way tie |