For the third consecutive year all of Georgia Tech’s engineering graduate programs ranked in the top ten in the nation in their respective specialties, powering the College of Engineering to a second-place ranking among public engineering institutions (sixth overall) in the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate rankings of national universities granting doctoral degrees.

"We are very proud of the reputation and accomplishments of the college and our schools," said Gary S. May, Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech. “For more than a decade Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has been the number two public engineering college in the country and we are pleased that the 2015 graduate rankings continue to show that. With a growing student enrollment, our focus continues to be on providing an outstanding educational environment.“

As in the last two rankings, all of the College of Engineering’s specialties were ranked in the top ten in their respective fields, making Georgia Tech the only institution in the nation to garner top ten rankings for all of its engineering graduate programs in three straight years.
 

2015 Graduate Rankings

Aerospace – 5th
Biomedical – 2nd
Chemical – 10th
Civil – 5th
Computer – 7th
Electrical – 6th
Environmental – 4th
Industrial – 1st
Materials – 9th
Mechanical – 5th
Nuclear – 8th

The School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) was once again named the top ranked industrial/manufacturing program in the country, an honor the program has earned for 24 consecutive years.

Six of the College of Engineering's 11 graduate programs rank in the top five in the country in the 2015 rankings, and two saw their placements improve this year, with environmental engineering moving from fifth to fourth and nuclear engineering jumping from 10th to eighth.