March 20, 2018

U.S. News & World Report releases 2019 Graduate Program rankings

The US News & World Report has released its national rankings of graduate programs. EE and CmpE both ranked #9 for 2019, the same ranking as the previous year for both programs.
U.S. News & World report released its rankings of Graduate Programs for 2019; Purdue EE and CmpE held steady at #9

The US News & World Report has released its national rankings of graduate programs. EE and CmpE both ranked #9 for 2019, the same ranking as the previous year for both programs. The College of Engineering moved to the #7position, up from #8 last year. The discipline rankings are based entirely on peer evaluations, whereas the college rankings are a combination of peer and recruiter assessments, along with a variety of performance-based factors.

Listed below are the rankings for all of the schools within Purdue's College of Engineering.

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