Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2014

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

10th	Purdue Engineering (Overall) Tied with the University of Texas at Austin
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
4th	Nuclear Engineering (2005 ranking*)
5th	Industrial Engineering
6th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
7th	Civil Engineering
7th	Electrical Engineering
7th	Mechanical Engineering
12th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering
12th	Computer Engineering
13th	Chemical Engineering
15th	Biomedical Engineering
17th	Materials Engineering Tied with North Carolina State University

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2014,” released in September 2013, Purdue’s College of Engineering tied with the University of Texas at Austin for 10^th nationally among doctoral-granting universities. Undergraduate program rankings are based on ratings by deans and senior faculty in those disciplines at peer institutions.

* Nuclear engineering programs are not ranked by USN&WR every year and were not ranked this year. 2005 is the most recent year in which the Nuclear engineering specialty was ranked by USN&WR.

 

Graduate Program National Rankings

(2015, published in March 2014)

8th	Purdue Engineering (Overall, tied with University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) Online graduate program is 4th in the Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
5th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Tied with Georgia Tech
6th	Civil Engineering Tied with MIT
8th	Industrial Engineering Tied with Virginia Tech
9th	Computer Engineering Tied with University of Texas-Austin
10th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Cornell University
10th	Mechanical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University and University of Texas-Austin
12th	Nuclear Engineering
14th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, and University of Colorado-Boulder
16th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with University of Washington and University of Wisconsin-Madison
17th	Materials Engineering
26th	Biomedical Engineering Tied with Harvard, University of California-Irvine, and Yale

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.