Texas A&M Engineering climbed to seventh among public engineering schools offering a doctorate and 14th overall in the 2018 U.S. News and World Report Best College Rankings for undergraduate engineering programs released this week. The college rose two places overall from 16 to 14 and one place among public institutions from eight to seven among its peers.
The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and the Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, which is part of both the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M, moved up to the top spot in the individual program rankings.
Five more departments, aerospace engineering (7th), civil engineering (8th), computer engineering (8th), industrial & systems engineering (8th) and mechanical engineering (7th) ranked in the top 10 among public institutions and top 15 overall.