US News &
World
Report
2016 Rankings
US News & World Report Rankings 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Graduate Engineering School 89 77 80 77 76 70 77 76 71 76 N = 187 N = 191 N = 198 N = 189 N = 198 N = 198 N = 198 N = 199 N = 193 N = 195 54
Public Public 47 Public 51 Public 47 Public 46 Public 41 Public 44 Public 44 Public 42 44 Public 3 TX
Public Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX
Overall Score 24 28 27 31 27 31 30 29 30 na Engineering Specialties: Computer Engineering RNP 63 72 RNP 61 62 53 63 62 74 N = 139 N = 140 76 N = 139 N = 140 N = 138 N = 144 N = 185 N = 135 Public 39 Public 43 N = 142 Public 36 Public 35 Public 30 Public 39 34 Public Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX
Overall Score 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.4 Engineering Specialties: Electrical/Electronic Communications 77 73 65 69 66 66 62 60 64 52 N = 168 N = 167 N = 170 N = 170 N = 173 N = 173 N = 173 N = 175 N = 177 N = 187 48
Public Public 44 Public 39 Public 41 Public 38 Public 38 Public 34 Public 35 Public 36 30 Public 3 TX
Public Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX Public 3 TX
Overall Score 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.7 Engineering Specialties: Materials 74 59 Ranking Not Publish ed 59 N = 95 N = 95 N = 97 49
Public Public 40 40 Public
4 TX
Public Public 2 TX Public 4 TX
Overall Score 2 2.3 2.3 Engineering Specialties: Mechanical Engineering 119 88 N = 171 N = 177 Public 80 58 Public Public 6 TX Public 3 TX Overall Score 2.1 2.3 Engineering Specialties: Systems Engineering 69 N = 99 56 Public Public 6 TX Overall Score na The Sciences - specialties: Computer Science 72 79 70 N = 151 N = 155 N = 177 45
Public Public 48 Public 44
3 TX
Public Public 3 TX Public 3 TX
US News & World Report Rankings America’s Best Colleges
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs 95 96 104 91 60
Public Public 59 Public 66 56 Public
5 TX
Public Public 5 TX Public 5 TX 5 TX
Overall
Natl. Research
Peer Recruiter Average Ph.D. Natl. expenditures Research
assessment assessment score quantitative Acceptance students/ Academy Ph.D.'s per faculty expenditures (5.0 highest) (5.0 highest) GRE score rate faculty of Eng. granted thousands) (in (in millions)
Weight 0.2500 0.1500 0.0675 0.0325 0.0750 0.0750 0.0625 0.1000 0.1500 (+0.0375 MS 1.00 students/ faculty)
Quality Assessment Student Selectivity Faculty Resources Research Activity
0.40 0.10 0.25 0.25 2016 Ranked 76th NP 2.30 2.90 160 38.70% NP 3.40% 70 330.6 46.28 out of 195 98th 86th 86th 91st 38th 57th 68th 60th 2015 Ranked 71st 30 2.4 2.9 757 43.40% 1.8 3.60% 64 360.5 46.86 out of 193 96th 86th 55th 104th 108th 35th 53rd 64th 60th 2014 Ranked 76th 29 2.4 2.8 740 50.70% 2.5 3.10% 79 354.7 42.9 out of 191 91st 93rd 93rd 111th 80th 40th 38th 67th 64th 2013 Ranked 77th 30 2.4 2.8 747 47.80% 2.6 2.50% 58 423.5 47.4 out of 194 96th 88th 64th 86th 74th 44th 56th 48th 61st 2012 Ranked 70th 31 2.4 3.1 749 48.60% 2.6 2.70% 56 327.3 35 out of 194 95th 69th 62nd 85th 31st 46th 53rd 65th 66th 2011 Ranked 76th 27 747 40.20% 2.80% 290 27.8 out of 192 2010 Ranks 77th 31 2.3 2.8 749 54.80% 2.2 3.10% 38 322.7 31.3 out of 189 103rd 92nd 59th 130th 72nd 44th 72nd 61st 70th 2009 Ranked 80th 27 2.3 2.9 742 53.30% 1.7 2.10% 44 300 27.6 out of 192 2008 Ranked 77th 28 2.3 2.9 748 55.80% 2 3.30% 42 270.8 23.3 out of 191 2007 Ranked 89th 24 2.4 2.6 754 50% 2.1 3.50% 34 237.5 19 out of 187
Peer Assessment - 98th 25% Recruiter Assessment 86th 15% Quant GRE 85th 6.75% Acceptance Rate 91st - 3.25% PhD Student Faculty Ratio RNP - 11.25% Natl Ac Eng - 38th 7.50% PhDs granted - 57th 6.25% Ave Res Exp Fac = 68th
10%
Total Research Exp 60th
15%
2016 US New & World Report
Engineernig School Rankings by Criterion
Erik Jonsson School ranked 76
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Methodology: 2016 Best Engineering Schools Rankings
For U.S. News' graduate engineering rankings, programs at 215 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees were surveyed; 196 responded. Data were collected in fall 2014 and early 2015. Rankings for the 195 schools that provided the data needed were calculated based on a weighted average of the 10 indicators described below. All schools are listed in the online directory.
Quality assessment (weighted by 0.40)
Peer assessment score (0.25): In fall 2014, engineering school deans and deans of graduate
studies at engineering schools were asked to rate programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Those individuals who did not know enough about a school to evaluate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know."
A school's score is the average rating of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. About 44 percent of those surveyed
responded.
Recruiter assessment score (0.15): In fall 2014, corporate recruiters and company contacts who
hire from previously ranked programs were asked to rate programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Those individuals who did not know enough about a school to evaluate it fairly were asked to mark "don't know." All the names of those surveyed for the recruiter assessment score were provided by the schools themselves.
A school's score is the average rating of all the respondents who rated it. Responses of "don't know" counted neither for nor against a school. For the purpose of calculating this year's rankings, the three most recent years of recruiter survey results were averaged and weighted by 0.15.
Assessment data were collected by Ipsos Public Affairs.
Student selectivity (weighted by 0.10)
Mean GRE quantitative scores (0.0675): This is the mean quantitative score on the GRE for
master's and doctoral students entering in fall 2014. Scores for the new and old GRE were converted to a common scale for the purposes of the ranking calculations.
Only GRE scores using the new 130-170 score scale taken during or after August 2011 are displayed on the ranking tables. These GRE data are only available via a U.S. News Engineering School Compass subscription.
Schools that reported that less than 50 percent of their entering students submitted GRE scores had their weighted percentile distributions adjusted by the proportion of the percentage of the student body that submitted test scores.
Acceptance rate (0.0325): This is the proportion of applicants to a school's master's and
doctoral programs who were offered admission for fall 2014.
Faculty resources (weighted by 0.25)
Student-faculty ratio: This is the ratio of full-time doctoral students to full-time tenured or
tenure-track faculty (0.075) and full-time master's students to full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty (0.0375) in fall 2014.
Percentage of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering (0.075): This is the proportion of
full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who were members of the National Academy of Engineering during fall 2014.
Doctoral degrees awarded (0.0625): This is the total number of doctoral degrees granted in the
2013-2014 school year.
Research activity (weighted by 0.25)
Total research expenditures (0.15): This is the total of externally funded engineering research
expenditures. These expenditures refer to separately funded research, public and private, conducted by the school and are averaged over fiscal years 2013 and 2014. The definition for research expenditures is set by the American Society for Engineering Education.
Average research expenditures per faculty member (0.10): This is the average amount of
externally funded engineering research expenditures per full-time faculty member averaged over fiscal years 2013 and 2014.
Overall rank: Data were standardized about their means, and standardized scores were
weighted, totaled and rescaled so that the top-scoring school received 100; others received their percentage of the top score.
Specialty rankings: Engineering specialty rankings are based solely on peer assessments by
department heads in each specialty area. The peer assessment surveys for the specialty area rankings were conducted in fall 2014.
Department heads in a specialty area rated the other schools that offered a doctoral degree in the specialty on a 5-point scale. Those schools with the highest average scores appear in the rankings. The lists of the engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees in each specialty, as well as the names of the department heads surveyed, came from the American Society for Engineering Education.
