Georgia Tech and the College of Engineering Rankings Still Among Best in Nation

Rankings for Schools of Engineering

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. University of California-Berkeley
4. Georgia Institute of Technology

"Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has placed fourth in U.S. News & World Report magazine's latest annual ranking of national universities that offer doctoral degrees, once again receiving one of the highest scores through the magazine’s methodology. "Everyone in COE should feel proud of the reputation and accomplishments of the college and the schools," said Don Giddens, Dean of Engineering.

Tech’s College of Engineering also scored high in the newest rankings with nine schools finishing in the top ten programs in the country. Once again, the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) was the top ranked industrial/manufacturing program in the country. This is the fifteenth year in a row that ISyE has ranked number one. Other Tech engineering programs with top ten rankings included: Aerospace - 4th place (up from 5th last year); Biomedical Engineering - 2nd place; Civil Engineering - 6th place; Computer Engineering - 7th place; Electrical Engineering - 6th place (up from 7th last year); Environmental Engineering - 6th place; Materials Science and Engineering - 8th place (up from 9th last year); Mechanical Engineering - 7th place and Nuclear Engineering – 9th (first time on the top ten). In all, ten of the 11 programs within Tech’s College of Engineering ranked in the top 10 of their respective disciplines.

U.S. News & World Report magazine has published its well-regarded graduate school rankings for 19 years. The magazine's criteria for determining overall engineering rankings include peer assessment, recruiter assessment, research activity, student selectivity and doctoral student-to-faculty ratio.

Graduate School Rankings

Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical

1. California Institute of Technology
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     Stanford University
     University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
4. Georgia Institute of Technology

Biomedical/Bioengineering

1. Johns Hopkins University
2. Georgia Institute of Technology
     University of California-San Diego
     University of Washington
     Duke University

Civil

1. University of California-Berkeley
2. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
3. Stanford University
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Texas-Austin

Computer Engineering

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. University of California-Berkeley
4. Carnegie Mellon University
5. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
     Princeton University
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
     University of Texas-Austin

Electrical/Electronic/Communications

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley
4. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
5. California Institute of Technology
6. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
7. Georgia Institute of Technology

Environmental/Environmental Health

1. Stanford University
2. University of California-Berkeley
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
4. University of Texas-Austin
5. Johns Hopkins University
6. Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Industrial/Manufacturing

1. Georgia Institute of Technology
2. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
3. Pennsylvania State University-University Park
University of California-Berkeley

Materials

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Northwestern University
     University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
4. University of California-Berkeley
     University of California-Santa Barbara
6. Stanford University
7. Cornell University
     Pennsylvania State University-University Park
9. Georgia Institute of Technology
     University of Florida
     University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Mechanical

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     Stanford University
3. California Institute of Technology
     University of California-Berkeley
5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
6. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
     Purdue University