EEE graduate program jumps up in U.S. News & World Report rankings
The U.S. News & World Report released its national rankings of graduate programs and Environmental and Ecological Engineering jumped to 17th in the country, up from 25th the year prior.
The College of Engineering at Purdue University moved to the 7th position, up from 8th last year.
Discipline rankings with U.S. News & World Report are based on purely on peer evaluations, whereas college rankings are a combination of peer and recruiter assessments, measuring the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students.
Listed below are the rankings for all of the schools within Purdue's College of Engineering.
| Rank | Unit |
|---|---|
| 7th | Purdue Engineering |
| 1st | Agricultural and Biological Engineering |
| 6th | Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering |
| 6th | Civil Engineering |
| 6th | Industrial Engineering |
| 8th |
Mechanical Engineering Tied with Princeton |
| 9th |
Computer Engineering Tied with Cornell and Washington |
| 9th |
Electrical Engineering Tied with Cornell, Princeton, and UT-Austin |
| 11th |
Nuclear Engineering Tied with Oregon St. |
| 14th |
Chemical Engineering Tied with Northwestern and UIUC |
| 14th |
Materials Engineering Tied with Ohio St. and Wisconsin-Madison |
| 17th |
Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Penn St., Colorado-Boulder, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin-Madison |
| 31st |
Biomedical Engineering Tied with Penn St. and USC |