Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2019

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

(2019, published in September 2018)

9th	Purdue Engineering Overall, tied with Cornell and University of Texas - Austin
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
3rd	Industrial Engineering
5th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
5th	Civil Engineering
8th	Mechanical Engineering
10th	Computer Engineering Tied with University of Washington
10th	Electrical Engineering Tied with University of Texas - Austin
12th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with University of Colorado - Boulder
13th	Materials Engineering
14th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon University
22nd	Biomedical Engineering Tied with University of California - Los Angeles

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2019,” released in September 2018, 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.

Graduate Program National Rankings

(2019, published in March 2018)

Rank	Unit
7th	Purdue Engineering
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
6th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
6th	Civil Engineering
6th	Industrial Engineering
8th	Mechanical Engineering Tied with Princeton
9th	Computer Engineering Tied with Cornell and Washington
9th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Cornell, Princeton, and UT-Austin
11th	Nuclear Engineering Tied with Oregon St.
14th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Northwestern and UIUC
14th	Materials Engineering Tied with Ohio St. and Wisconsin-Madison
17th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Penn St., Colorado-Boulder, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin-Madison
31st	Biomedical Engineering Tied with Penn St. and USC

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.