Engineering Departments Rise in 2022 USNWR Best Graduate School Rankings
March 30, 2021
BATON ROUGE, LA 鈥� There was good news for the College of Engineering departments recognized in today鈥檚 U.S. News & World Report 2022 鈥淏est Graduate School鈥� rankings.
The college itself dipped slightly to an overall ranking of T-113 from last year鈥檚 T-102, finishing alongside two other Southeastern Conference institutions, the University of Arkansas and University of Georgia. Among public institutions, the college was ranked T-74, and it was the top-ranked school in Louisiana.
Department rankings are as follows:
- Biological and Agricultural Engineering鈥擳-23 overall, T-22 among publics (T-27 overall in 2021)
- Chemical Engineering鈥擳-73 overall, T-47 among publics (T-72 overall in 2021)
- Civil Engineering鈥擳-54 overall, T-37 among publics (T-64 overall in 2021)
- Computer Engineering鈥擳-105 overall, T-66 among publics (T-97 overall in 2021)
- Electrical Engineering鈥擳-99 overall, T-63 among publics (T-106 overall in 2021)
- Mechanical Engineering鈥擳-91 overall, T-56 among publics (T-94 overall in 2021)
- Petroleum Engineering鈥擭o. 10 overall, No. 8 among publics (No. 10 overall in 2021)
To establish its rankings, U.S. News & World Report surveyed 216 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees. The data collection was used for the overall rankings, 13 specialty rankings and for populating each school鈥檚 profile on usnews.com. Schools were ranked on peer-assessment and recruiter-assessment scores (40 percent of overall score), faculty resources (25 percent of overall score), research activity (25 percent of overall score), and student selectivity (10 percent of overall score).
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