Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2015
Undergraduate Program National Rankings
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9th
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(Overall)
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1st
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Tied with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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4th
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4th
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4th
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(2005 ranking*)
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5th
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7th
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9th
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Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2015,” released in September 2014, Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 9th 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
(2016, published in March 2015)
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6th
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(Overall, tied with University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Online graduate program is 4th in the Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs |
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1st
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6th
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6th
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8th
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Tied with Cornell University
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8th
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Tied with Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University
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10th
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Tied with Cornell University and University of Texas-Austin
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12th
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12th
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Tied with Oregon State
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14th
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Tied with Carnegie Mellon University
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15th
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Tied with University of Iowa and University of Minnesota
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15th
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Tied with University of Florida and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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33rd
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Tied with UCLA and University of Maryland
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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.