Four Programs Among Top 50 in Best Grad School Rankings
April 25, 2023
BATON ROUGE, LA – In the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the 2024 Best Engineering Graduate Schools, four of the LSU College of Engineering’s programs were ranked in the top 50 nationally among public institutions.
The petroleum engineering program was ranked 10th among publics, biological engineering was ranked 30th, civil engineering was ranked 41st, and chemical engineering was ranked 47th.
The full rankings are as follows:
- College of Engineering – T-121 overall and T-86 among public institutions. Top program
in Louisiana.
- Biological/Agricultural Engineering – T-31 overall and T-30 among public institutions.
Tied with Utah State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø and ahead of fellow SEC institution the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø
of Missouri.
- Chemical Engineering – T-72 overall and T-47 among public institutions. Tied with
Tulane ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Kentucky, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Oklahoma, Syracuse ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø,
Texas Tech ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of New Mexico, and Washington State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø,
among others.
- Civil Engineering – T-60 overall and T-41 among public institutions (both improvements
over last year’s ranking). Tied with the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Kansas, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Nebraska,
and Case Western Reserve ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø.
- Computer Science – T-105 and T-64 among public institutions (both improvements over
last year’s rankings). Tied with the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Missouri, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Houston,
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of South Florida, Rutgers ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, Binghamton ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø—SUNY, and Brandeis
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, among others
- Electrical Engineering – T-112 overall and T-74 among public institutions. Tied with
Mississippi State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Missouri, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Oklahoma, and
West Virginia ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, among others.
- Industrial Engineering – T-79 overall and T-58 among public institutions (both improvements
over last year’s rankings). Tied with Old Dominion ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø and the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of
Massachusetts-Lowell.
- Mechanical Engineering – T-111 overall and T-73 among public institutions. Tied with
Mississippi State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Oklahoma, Southern Methodist ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø,
and the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Miami, among others.
- Petroleum Engineering – 12th overall and 10th among public institutions.
The rankings were based on surveys by U.S. News with 220 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees. Statistical data was collected in fall 2022 and early 2023. New this year, in rare cases where an active engineering school reported enough data to be eligible the previous year but did not complete a statistical survey this year, those schools were still ranked using their previous year’s data and marked as nonresponders in the directory. Additionally, weighting of ranking criteria was changed from last year and was as follows:
- Research activity (50%, previously 25%).
- Quality Assessment (25%, previously 40%).
- Faculty Resources (20%, previously 25%).
- Student Selectivity (5%, previously 10%).
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