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 2013 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report (published in September 2012). Ranked undergraduate engineering science specialties in the College of Engineering* include the following:
- 8 - Aerospace
- 1 - Agricultural
- 18 - Biomedical
- 9 - Chemical
- 1 - Civil
- 5 - Computer Engineering
- 4 - Electrical/Electronic/Communications
- 2 - Engineering Physics
- 4 - Environmental/Environmental Health
- 11 - Industrial/Manufacturing
- 2 - Materials
- 5 - Mechanical
*U.S. News and World Report does not include General Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, 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 2013). Ranked graduate engineering science specialties in the College of Engineering include the following:
- 7 - Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical
- 2 - Biological/Agricultural
- 13 - Chemical
- 1 - Civil
- 4 - Computer Engineering
- 5 - Computer Science*
- 8 - Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence*
- 9 - Computer Science - Programming Language*
- 6 - Computer Science - Systems*
- 11 - Computer Science - Theory*
- 3 - Electrical/Electronic/Communications
- 3 - Environmental
- 16 - Industrial/Manufacturing
- 4 - Materials
- 7 - Mechanical
- 10 - Nuclear
- 9 - Physics*
- 2 - Physics - Condensed Matter*
- 10 - Physics - Nuclear*
- 8 - Physics - Quantum*
*Ranked in 2010
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