Purdue Engineering National Rankings – 2021

Graduate Program National Rankings

(2021, published in March 2020)

Rank	Unit
7th	Purdue Engineering
2nd	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
6th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
6th	Civil Engineering
6th	Industrial Engineering Tied with MIT, Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison and Virginia Tech
9th	Mechanical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon and Princeton
9th	Electrical Engineering Tied with Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Princeton
12th	Computer Engineering Tied with University of Washington
12th	Nuclear Engineering Tied with RPI
15th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering Tied with Arizona State, Colorado-Boulder, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Princeton, Rice and Wisconsin-Madison
16th	Chemical Engineering Tied with Colorado-Boulder and Cornell
16th	Materials Engineering Tied with Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Florida and Wisconsin-Madison
34th	Biomedical Engineering Tied with North Carolina-Chapel Hill and USC

The College of Engineering is made up of 11 schools and 2 divisions: aeronautics and astronautics, agricultural and biological, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and computer, engineering education, industrial, materials, mechanical, nuclear, construction engineering and management, and environmental and ecological engineering. Also, the college houses programs such as Purdue Online – Engineering, EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service), the Minority Engineering Program, the Women in Engineering Program and Global Engineering Programs and Partnerships.

Online Graduate Program National Rankings

(2021, published in January 2021)

Rank	Unit
3rd	Online Graduate Engineering
3rd	Online Graduate Engineering for Veterans
1st	Industrial Engineering
1st	Mechanical Engineering
1st	Electrical Engineering
2nd	Civil Engineering
3rd	Engineering Management

 

Undergraduate Program National Rankings

(2021, published in September 2020)

9th	Purdue Engineering Overall, tied with Cornell
1st	Agricultural and Biological Engineering
2nd	Industrial Engineering
3rd	Civil Engineering Overall, tied with MIT
5th	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Overall, tied with Stanford
7th	Mechanical Engineering
10th	Computer Engineering Overall, tied with the University of Washington
10th	Electrical Engineering Overall, tied with Cornell
11th	Materials Engineering
12th	Environmental and Ecological Engineering
14th	Chemical Engineering
27th	Biomedical Engineering Overall, tied with Princeton

Note: The Nuclear undergraduate discipline is not ranked by USNWR, but is part of their graduate rankings.

Purdue Engineering undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers. In the U.S. News & World Report survey “Best Colleges 2021,” released in September 2020, Purdue’s College of Engineering ranked 9^th nationally among doctorate-granting universities. Undergraduate program rankings are based on ratings by deans and senior faculty in those disciplines at peer institutions.