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Rankings

Although published rankings are but one measure of excellence, the College of Engineering is regularly listed among the top engineering programs in the United States and worldwide. Below are the most recent rankings for undergraduate and graduate engineering programs at Illinois.


The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked 5th in the 2008 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report (published in August 2007).

Ranked undergraduate engineering science specialties include:

6Aerospace
1Agricultural
8Chemical
1Civil
5Computer Engineering
4Electrical/Electronic/Communications
3Engineering Physics
3Environmental/Environmental Health
12Industrial/Manufacturing
5Materials
5Mechanical
4Nuclear*

The Department of Computer Science and the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois are within the College of Engineering, however, U.S. News & World Report lists them in its "Science" rankings. The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois.

*Nuclear engineering is ranked every other year.


The graduate engineering program at Illinois ranked 5th in the Best Graduate Schools issue of U.S. News and World Report (published in March 2008).

Ranked graduate engineering science specialties include:

7Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical
10Chemical
1Civil
5Computer Engineering
5Computer Science
7Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
6Computer Science - Programming Language
6Computer Science - Systems
4Electrical/Electronic/Communications
3Environmental
16Industrial/Manufacturing
2Materials
6Mechanical
13Nuclear
8Physics
1Physics - Condensed Matter
8Physics - Nuclear
7Physics - Quantum

Overall, U.S. News & World Report ranks Illinois as one of the top public national universities that grants doctoral degrees in its "Ranking of America's Best Colleges."

Other Selected Rankings

  • The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked 16th among undergraduate programs and 21st among graduate programs in the fifth annual ranking of the nation’s top entrepreneurship educational programs by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review (October 2007).
  • In 2007, Engineering at Illinois was ranked #3 in the "Top 100 World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences" by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
  • In May 2007, Small Times magazine ranked Illinois fourth worldwide for research and education in nanotechnology, the science of creating materials and tools at the atomic and molecular levels.
  • The 2006 Fiske Guide to Colleges named Illinois as a "Public University with Strong Preprofessional Programs" in Architecture, Business, Communications/Journalism, and Engineering.
  • Diverse magazine ranked Illinois in its 2006 Top 100 Degree Producers:
    - 19th in total minority Doctoral degrees in all disciplines,
    - 28th in total minority Baccalaureate degrees in all disciplines,
    - 9th in total minority Engineering Baccalaureate degrees,
    - 13th in total minority Biological and Biomedical Science Baccalaureate degrees.
  • The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked #6 by PC Magazine and The Princeton Review in its "Top 20 Wired Colleges" in the U.S. The rankings were published in the December 26, 2006 issue of PC Magazine.
  • The University of Illinois--Technology Entrepreneur Center and College of Business--were included in the inaugural list of Top 25 D-Schools (design and innovation) internationally in the October 9, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek.
  • The Princeton Review named Illinois one of the "best Midwestern colleges" in 2005.
  • The Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranked the University of Illinois 25th in the "2005 Top 500 World Universities."