The College of Engineering is regularly listed among the top engineering programs in the United States and worldwide. While rankings are only one measure of the excellence of our programs, the College's consistent recognition as a leading institution both overall and in a number of specific disciplines confirms our reputation as a leader in engineering education.
U.S News & World Report
Undergraduate
The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked 5th in the 2010 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report (published in August 2009). Ranked undergraduate engineering science specialties in the College of Engineering include the following:
- 7 - Aerospace
- 1 - Agricultural
- 21 - Biomedical/Biomedical Engineering*
- 7 - Chemical
- 2 - Civil
- 3 - Computer Engineering
- 2 - Electrical/Electronic/Communications
- 4 - Engineering Physics
- 3 - Environmental/Environmental Health
- 13 - Industrial/Manufacturing
- 2 - Materials
- 6 - Mechanical
*The Bioengineering degree was introduced in 2004; its first bachelor's degrees were awarded in 2008. U.S. News and World Report does not include Nuclear or Computer Science among its undergraduate engineering program rankings.
Graduate
The graduate engineering program at Illinois ranked 5th in the Best Graduate Schools issue of U.S. News and World Report (published in March 2009). Ranked graduate engineering science specialties in the College of Engineering include the following:
- 7 - Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical
- 11 - Chemical
- 2 - Civil
- 5 - Computer Engineering
- 5 - Computer Science
- 7 - Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
- 6 - Computer Science - Programming Language
- 6 - Computer Science - Systems
- 4 - Electrical/Electronic/Communications
- 3 - Environmental
- 19 - Industrial/Manufacturing
- 2 - Materials
- 6 - Mechanical
- 11 - Nuclear
- 8 - Physics
- 1 - Physics - Condensed Matter
- 8 - Physics - Nuclear
- 7 - Physics - Quantum
Other Selected Rankings
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Engineering at Illinois is #1 on "The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009," a list of the top 20 institutions worldwide with the highest total citations to research papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed engineering journals from January 1, 1999 to October 31, 2009.
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In 2009, Engineering at Illinois was ranked #3 in the "Top 100 World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences" by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked first among Big Ten schools on Smart Money magazine’s list for how quickly graduates earn back the cost of their tuition (January 2009).
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Illinois was ranked #1 by PC Magazine and The Princeton Review in its "America's Top Wired Colleges," 2008 Edition.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked 16th among undergraduate programs and 21st among graduate programs in the fifth annual ranking of the nation’s top entrepreneurship educational programs by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review (October 2007).
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In May 2007, Small Times magazine ranked Illinois fourth worldwide for research and education in nanotechnology, the science of creating materials and tools at the atomic and molecular levels.
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The 2006 Fiske Guide to Colleges named Illinois as a "Public University with Strong Preprofessional Programs" in Architecture, Business, Communications/Journalism, and Engineering.
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Diverse magazine ranked Illinois in its 2006 Top 100 Degree Producers in several areas:
- 9th in total minority Engineering Baccalaureate degrees;
- 19th in total minority Doctoral degrees in all disciplines;
- 28th in total minority Baccalaureate degrees in all discipline; and
- 13th in total minority Biological and Biomedical Science Baccalaureate degrees.
