August 18, 2010

College of Engineering undergraduate programs ranked among nation's best

Engineering Fountain
In the just-released US News & World Report national rankings of undergraduate programs, Purdue ranks 8th among engineering programs at doctoral-granting universities. The new ranking, up from 9th last year, ties Purdue's undergraduate engineering programs with those at Carnegie-Mellon and Cornell. Last year, Purdue was tied with Cornell and the University of Texas at Austin.

The discipline rankings are:

  • Industrial/manufacturing engineering: 3rd
    last year 3rd
  • Agricultural/biological engineering: 3rd
    last year 2nd
  • Aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering: 4th
    last year 4th
  • Civil engineering: 5th
    last year 5th, tied with MIT
  • Mechanical engineering: 7th
    last year 7th
  • Electrical/electronic/communications engineering: 9th
    last year 10th
  • Computer engineering: 11th
    last year 11th
  • Chemical engineering: 12th
    last year 13th
  • Materials engineering: 12th (tied with UC-Santa Barbara)
    last year 12th
  • Environmental: 13th (tied with the University of Florida)
    last year 11th, tied with Cal Tech and the University of Florida
  • Biomedical engineering: 19th (tied with Wisconsin-Madison)
    BME was not in the top 24 last year
  • Nuclear engineering programs are not ranked by US News & World Report every year, and were not ranked last year or this year.