EEE ranked 12th graduate program in the nation by U.S. News & World Report

Purdue Environmental and Ecological Engineering was ranked the 12th graduate program in the nation by U.S. News & World Report!


In the 2023 - 2024 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, EEE's program tied with Princeton, Duke, Yale, and Rice as 12th in the nation

Purdue’s College of Engineering was ranked 4th out of 220 for the third consecutive year.

“These rankings reflect the success of our collective research enterprise across Purdue – from record research expenditures, graduate student selectivity and numbers, along with investments in major centers,” said Arvind Raman, the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering and Robert V. Adams Professor in Mechanical Engineering.

Provost Patrick Wolfe added, “Along with substantial investments in a reimagined School of Business that plays to our strengths in analytics and engineering, and an expansion into Indianapolis that is strategically focused on these same areas, these latest in a long line of strong STEM rankings highlight our relentless pursuit of scholarly excellence at scale.”

"While all rankings are limited and noisy, Purdue’s excellence at scale is reflected in part in the recent graduate rankings, with top-ranked programs across multiple departments,” said Purdue President Mung Chiang. “We thank our faculty, staff and students for always aiming at “one brick higher” in scholarly excellence.”