Every engineering graduate degree at Georgia Tech remained in the top 10 nationally in the annual assessment.
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For the fourth consecutive year, the College of Engineering moved higher on the widely watched U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Programs list, landing at No. 4 in the updated rankings released June 18.
Georgia Tech is tied with the California Institute of Technology in the fourth spot. The College’s new ranking puts it second among public universities.
Among specific disciplines, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering maintained its place as the nation’s No. 1 program for the 34th year in a row. The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering rose two spots to No. 2.
Also at No. 2: the biomedical engineering graduate program jointly operated by Georgia Tech and Emory University (the College also features an interdisciplinary bioengineering graduate program). Civil engineering remained at No. 3.
(2nd among public universities)
The 2024 Best Grad Schools rankings mark the 13th year with every program in the College in the top 10 of their discipline. Most rankings were unchanged from last year’s list.
U.S. News releases graduate school rankings each spring. Their evaluation of engineering as a whole is based on a number of factors, including research expenditures and publications, peer and recruiter assessments, and doctoral degrees awarded. Rankings of specific engineering disciplines are based solely on peer assessments by department heads.
In the fall, U.S. News ranked the College’s undergraduate programs the best among public universities and No. 3 overall.
2024 Graduate Rankings
U.S. News & World Report
| School | Ranking | Public Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial Engineering | 1st | 1st |
| Aerospace Engineering | 2nd (4th last year) | 1st |
| Biomedical Engineering | 2nd (1st last year) | 1st |
| Civil Engineering | 3rd | 3rd |
| Electrical Engineering | 4th | 2nd |
| Chemical Engineering | 5th | 2nd |
| Environmental Engineering | 5th | 4th |
| Mechanical Engineering | 5th | 2nd |
| Computer Engineering | 6th (5th last year) | 3rd |
| Materials Engineering | 7th | 4th |
| Nuclear Engineering | 9th (8th last year) | 8th |
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