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another difference is seen in the USNWR rankings. while they are about the same rank for national U’s, UU’s ranking for UG and Grad engineering is 58 and 51, while UA’s is 105 and 105.
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That is meaningless. There are hundreds of very good eng’g programs in the US. Heck, in the state of Calif alone there are over 25 very good eng’g programs. ABET accreditation is key.
Although Bama’s eng’g program is long-established (one of the first 5 colleges in the US to have eng’g), for many years the program was rather small. In the past 10 years, that has changed, including the building of a new Science and Engineering Complex…1Million sq ft of new STEM academic space.