Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2012

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

9th	Purdue Engineering (Overall) Tied with Cornell
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
4th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
4th	Nuclear Engineering 2004 rank—Nuclear engineering programs are not ranked by US News & World Report every year, and were not ranked last year or this year.
5th	Civil Engineering
5th	Industrial Engineering Tied with Stanford University
7th	Mechanical Engineering
9th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University
11th	Computer Engineering
11th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering
12th	Chemical Engineering Tied with University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
14th	Materials Engineering

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2012,” released in September 2011, Purdue’s College of Engineering tied with Cornell for 9^th 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

10th	Purdue Engineering (Overall) Tied with Cornell University
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
6th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
6th	Civil Engineering Tied with Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9th	Mechanical Engineering Tied with Cornell University
10th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Princeton University
11th	Computer Engineering
11th	Nuclear Engineering Tied with Oregon State University
14th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University
14th	Materials Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University
15th	Industrial Engineering
19th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Pennsylvania State University and University of Minnesota
23rd	Biomedical Engineering Tied with University of Minnesota, University of Virginia and University of Wisconsin-Madison

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.