Engineering Rankings Trustworthy?

elunium
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:49:22 +0000

The engineering rankings are based on peer assessment. They basically asked school administrators which 10 colleges they believed were the best for engineering. UIUC doesn’t have nearly as much recognition as the likes of MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and Berkeley so it’s pretty incredible that they are ranked as high as it is.

If you looked at the rankings of each of UIUC’s engineering programs, you’d understand why it’s ranked 5th overall:

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