Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2017

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

9th	Purdue Engineering (Overall, tied with Cornell)
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering Tied with Iowa State
3rd	Industrial Engineering
4th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
4th	Nuclear Engineering (2005 ranking*)
6th	Civil Engineering
7th	Mechanical Engineering
8th	Electrical Engineering
11th	Computer Engineering
11th	Materials Engineering Tied with Cal Tech
13th	Chemical Engineering
13th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Cornell
18th	Biomedical Engineering

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2017,” released in September 2016, Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 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.

*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

(2018, published in March 2017)

Rank	Unit
8th	Purdue Engineering
2nd	Agricultural and Biological Engineering Tied with Texas A&M
6th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
6th	Civil Engineering
6th	Industrial Engineering Tied with Virginia Tech
8th	Mechanical Engineering Tied with Cornell and Princeton
9th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon
9th	Computer Engineering Tied with Cal Tech, Princeton, Washington, and Wisconsin-Madison
12th	Nuclear Engineering Tied with Ohio State and RPI
14th	Materials Engineering Tied with Harvard and Wisconsin-Madison
15th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Northwestern and U Pennsylvania
25th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Cal Tech and North Carolina State
25th	Biomedical Engineering Tied with UC-Davis and Vanderbilt

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.