![Graphic depicting 2021 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges undergraduate rankings. The Texas A&M University College of Engineering is ranked seventh. Other rankings are: petroleum, first; biological and agricultural engineering, second; aerospace engineering, seventh; civil engineering, eighth; industrial engineering, eighth; electrical engineering, ninth; and chemical engineering, 10th.](_news-images/COE-news-Ranking-Graphic-17Sept20.jpg)
The Texas A&M University College of Engineering’s undergraduate engineering program climbed two spots, ranking seventh among public engineering schools offering a doctorate (tied with University of Wisconsin-Madison), and No. 13 overall, in the recently released 2021 U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings.
In all, eight departments were ranked in the top 10 among public institutions, six of which increased their rank from the year before.
Two departments within the College of Engineering were ranked in the top five. The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering was ranked first among public schools and overall. The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, which is part of both the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M, was ranked second among public schools and overall.
Other departments ranking in the top 10 of public institutions include the Department of Aerospace Engineering (7), the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering (8), the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (8), the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering (8), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (9) and the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering (10). Topping off the list is the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (14). All were ranked in the in the top 20 overall.