Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2018
Undergraduate Program National Rankings
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8th
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Overall, tied with Carnegie Mellon
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1st
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Tied with Iowa State and Texas A&M
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4th
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6th
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Tied with University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign
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6th
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Tied with University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign
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7th
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Tied with Virginia Tech
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8th
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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 2018,” released in September 2017, Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 8th nationally among doctoral-granting universities. Undergraduate program rankings are based on ratings by deans and senior faculty in those disciplines at peer institutions.
*Environmental and Ecological engineering program was not ranked by USN&WR this year. 2017 is the most recent year in which Environmental and Ecological engineering program 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.