Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2010

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

Purdue Engineering (overall)* 9th Agricultural and Biological Engineering 2nd Industrial Engineering 3rd Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering 4th Civil Engineering** 5th Mechanical Engineering 7th Electrical Engineering 10th Computer Engineering 11th Environmental and Ecological Engineering*** 11th Materials Engineering 12th Chemical Engineering 13th Biomedical Engineering****   Nuclear Engineering***** 4th

* Tied with Cornell and University of Texas-Austin ** Tied with MIT *** Tied with California Institute of Technology and University of Florida **** Not ranked in the top 24 ***** 2004 rank—this field was not included in the 2010 survey

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “America’s Best Colleges 2010,” released in August 2009, Purdue’s College of Engineering tied with Cornell and University of Texas-Austin for 9th nationally among doctoral-granting universities. Undergraduate program rankings are based on ratings by deans and senior faculty in those disciplines at peer institutions.

 

Graduate Program National Rankings

Purdue Engineering* (overall) 12th Agricultural and Biological Engineering* 1st Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering* 4th Civil Engineering* 7th Mechanical Engineering 8th Electrical Engineering* 10th Computer Engineering* 12th Industrial Engineering 12th Materials Engineering* 13th Nuclear Engineering* 13th Chemical Engineering* 14th Environmental and Ecological Engineering* 17th Biomedical Engineering* 22nd

* Tied in ranking with another university

The College of Engineering is made up of 14 schools and departments: aeronautics and astronautics, agricultural and biological, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and computer, engineering education, industrial, materials, mechanical, and nuclear. This also includes the divisions of engineering professional education, construction engineering and management, and environmental and ecological engineering. Also, the college houses programs such as Engineering Projects in Community Service, the Minority Engineering Program, the Women in Engineering Program and the Indiana Space Grant Consortium.