College of Engineering graduate programs ranked among nation's best

This year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of engineering graduate programs once again have all of our programs in the top 25, with eight in the top 15, five in the top 10 and two in the top 5.

USNWR Best Graduate Schools 2011 BadgeSpecial congratulations to Agricultural and Biological Engineering head Bernie Engel and the ABE faculty, graduate students, and staff for their second consecutive #1 ranking. Congratulations to Civil Engineering for breaking into the top 5, Industrial Engineering for returning to the top 10, and to the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Nuclear Engineering for moving up.

  • School of Aeronautics and Astronautics: 6th
    (3-way tie for 4th last year)
  • School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering: 1st
    tied with Illinois (2-way tie for 1st last year)
  • Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering: 23rd
    tied with Cal Tech, UC-Davis, Minnesota, and Univ. of Utah (4-way tie for 22nd last year)
  • School of Civil Engineering: 3rd
    tied with Georgia Tech, Stanford, and UT-Austin (3-way tie for 7th last year)
  • School of Chemical Engineering: 15th
    (tied for 14th last year)
  • School of Computer Engineering:
    The Computer Engineering discipline was not ranked this year
  • School of Electrical Engineering: 11th
    tied with Princeton (tied for 10th last year)
  • Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering: 16th
    tied with Penn State, Rice, Univ. of Iowa, and Minnesota (4-way tie for 17th last year)
  • School of Industrial Engineering: 10th
    tied with Wisconsin (12th last year)
  • School of Materials Engineering: 16th
    tied with Harvard and Wisconsin (3-way tie for 13th last year)
  • School of Mechanical Engineering: 9th
    (8th last year)
  • School of Nuclear Engineering: 12th
    tied with Illinois (tied for 13th last year)
  • College of Engineering: 13th
    tied with UC San Diego (2-way tie for 12th last year)

In the College ranking, the peer assessment stayed level at 4.2, with 9 universities ahead of us and one other school with a 4.2 score; 10 were ahead of us last year. Our recruiter assessment score fell from 4.2 last year to 4.1 this year, also with 9 schools ahead of us and one other school with a 4.1 score; 7 were ahead of us last year. Our quantitative scores for graduate student selectivity, NAE membership, research expenditures, research expenditures per faculty member, and PhDs granted all improved compared to last year.