Dear Colleagues,

It is wonderful to see that our peers at other institutions have evaluated our undergraduate program higher than last year - we are now one step away from the top-10.  Thank you for your dedication to educating our students, to ensure they have satisfying and productive careers - working together, let's continue to improve our program; improved relative standing in such evaluations will follow on their own.

I'll forward the list of the top ChE programs as soon as I can.

With best wishes,

Arvind

Arvind Varma

R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor

Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering

Purdue University


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From: "Jamieson, Leah H." <lhj@purdue.edu>
Date: September 10, 2014 at 12:57:12 AM GMT+7
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Subject: US News & World Report Undergrad Rankings

Colleagues –
 
US News & World Report has released its national rankings of undergraduate programs for this year. The undergrad rankings are computed from the responses to a survey sent to deans and selected senior faculty, who rated programs on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished).
 
In this year’s rankings, Purdue is #9 among engineering programs at doctoral-granting universities. We ranked #10 last year, tied with UT-Austin.
 
The discipline rankings are:

 

 

2015 Ranking (published September 2014)

2014 Ranking (published September 2013)

College

#9

#10 tied w/ UT-Austin

ABE

#1 tied w/ UIUC

#1

IE

#4

#5

CE

#4

#7

AAE

#5

#6

ME

 #7

#7

EE

 #9

#7

ChE

 #11

#13

MSE

 #12 tied w/ Cal Tech and U Fl

#17 tied w/ NC State

CmpE 

 #13

#12

EEE

 #13 tied w/ Cal Tech and NC State

#12

BME  

 #17

#15

*Nuclear engineering programs are not ranked by USN&WR every year and were not ranked this year or last year.
 
Congratulations to ABE for their fourth consecutive #1 ranking; to ABE, IE, CE, and AAE for their top 5 rankings; to IE, CE, AAE, ChE, and MSE for moving up in the rankings; and to MSE for their pretty spectacular 5-point gain. Overall, the net movement, summed across the College and discipline rankings, was an improvement of 7 points.
 
As you know, Purdue Engineering is on the move. Thank you for your continued commitment to creating inspired educational experiences for our undergraduates; for your creativity, effort, and dedication to growing and transforming the College of Engineering; and for your commitment to excellence in all you do.
 
Best,
leah
 
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Leah H. Jamieson
The John A. Edwardson Dean, College of Engineering
Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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