Engineering School Ranking 2015

According to the U.S. News & World Report ranking of "America's Best Graduate Schools" 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology was ranked No. 1 among the best engineering schools in the country, ahead of Stanford University (2nd place) and University of California-Berkeley (3rd place).

Cornell University was ranked 13th overall among the best engineering schools. Additionally, eight of Cornell's graduate engineering fields were ranked in the top 10 in U.S. News 2015 "Best Graduate Schools". Topping the engineering categories was biological/agricultural at No. 4.

Penn State College of Engineering graduate program was rated 25th in the country by U.S. News in its Best Graduate Schools 2015 edition. Under the publication's specialty categories, Penn State aerospace engineering was ranked 14th, biological engineering 14th, bioengineering 34th, chemical engineering 20th, civil engineering 22nd, computer engineering 21st, computer science 29th, electrical engineering 24th, environmental engineering 25th, industrial engineering 11th, materials 11th, mechanical engineering 17th and nuclear engineering 5th.

The University at Buffalo (UB) School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' overall placement moved from 61st to 60th and distinguished itself in the U.S. News rankings of engineering disciplines of chemical engineering, which moved from 43rd to 36th and mechanical engineering, which moved from 68th to 49th. UB programs in aerospace engineering (39), civil engineering (31), electrical engineering (77), environmental engineering (46), and industrial engineering (25) also were ranked among the best by U.S. News.

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