UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The College of Engineering graduate program was rated 27th in the country by U.S. News & World Report in its Best Graduate Schools 2017 edition. The report, released March 16, surveyed 215 graduate programs that grant doctoral degrees across the country with 194 responding.
Four programs – aerospace engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering and electrical engineering – improved since last year's report, and three programs – biological engineering, materials engineering and mechanical engineering – remained unchanged.
Under the publication's specialty categories, Penn State aerospace engineering was ranked 14th, biological engineering 11th, biomedical 37th, chemical engineering 22nd, civil engineering 20th, computer engineering 21st, electrical engineering 27th, environmental engineering 24th, industrial engineering 12th, materials 13th, mechanical engineering 16th and nuclear engineering 10th.
U.S. News does not survey the disciplines of acoustics, architectural engineering, and engineering science and mechanics. Computer science is ranked every four years.
Penn State's online graduate engineering program through World Campus was rated 4th.