U.S. News and World Report Announces 2021 Graduate School Rankings
Purdue’s electrical engineering graduate program moved up three spots – from 12 to 9 – in the U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Computer engineering held steady at 12 in the new rankings, which were released on March 17th. Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 7th nationally among doctoral-granting universities, up from 8th last year.
The data used in the college rankings are based on in-depth statistical surveys conducted in fall 2019 and early 2020. Engineering specialty rankings, such as electrical engineering and computer engineering, are based solely on peer assessments by department heads in each specialty area. U.S. News conducted peer assessment surveys in fall 2019 for the specialty rankings.
Graduate Program National Rankings
(2021, published in March 2020)
| Rank | Unit |
|---|---|
| 7th | Purdue Engineering |
| 2nd | Agricultural and Biological Engineering |
| 6th | Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering |
| 6th | Civil Engineering |
| 6th |
Industrial Engineering Tied with MIT, Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison and Virginia Tech |
| 9th |
Mechanical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon and Princeton |
| 9th |
Electrical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Princeton |
| 12th |
Computer Engineering Tied with University of Washington |
| 12th |
Nuclear Engineering Tied with RPI |
| 15th |
Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Arizona State, Colorado-Boulder, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Princeton, Rice and Wisconsin-Madison |
| 16th |
Chemical Engineering Tied with Colorado-Boulder and Cornell |
| 16th |
Materials Engineering Tied with Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Florida and Wisconsin-Madison |
| 34th |
Biomedical Engineering Tied with North Carolina-Chapel Hill and USC |