Engineering Graduate Programs See Improvement in Rankings

03-20-2018

BATON ROUGE – Both the LSU Petroleum and Civil Engineering Programs saw their rankings improve in the 2019 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Engineering Programs.

The Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering is T-7 in the nation among public colleges and universities and T-9 overall, one spot up from last year’s ranking.

The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is ranked T-36 among public colleges and universities and T-55 overall, an improvement over last year’s T-60 ranking.

Additionally, the LSU College of Engineering as a whole was ranked T-61 among public colleges and universities and T-97 overall – along with the University of Kentucky, University of South Carolina, University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, Brigham Young University, Southern Methodist University and Tulane University. The college was ranked T-99 overall last year.

For the U.S. News rankings of graduate engineering programs, 214 schools that grant doctoral degrees in the discipline were surveyed. Rankings were then calculated based on a weighted-average of peer assessment, recruiter assessment, mean GRE quantitative scores, acceptance rate, student-faculty ratio, percentage of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering, doctoral degrees awarded, total research expenditures, and average research expenditures per faculty member.

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