Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2016
Undergraduate Program National Rankings
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9th
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(Overall, tied with Cornell)
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1st
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3rd
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Tied with UC-Berkeley
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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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6th
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Tied with University of Illinois
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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 2016,” released in September 2015, 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
(2017, published in March 2016)
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9th
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Online graduate program is 5th 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 Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University
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8th
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Tied with Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and University of Texas-Austin
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9th
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Tied with Virginia Tech
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9th
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Tied with California Institute of Technology
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10th
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Tied with Pennsylvania State University
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15th
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Tied with Cornell University, Northwestern University, and University of Colorado-Boulder
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15th
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Tied with North Carolina State, University of Florida, and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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18th
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Tied with University of Iowa and University of Minnesota
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22rd
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Tied with Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University
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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.