{"id":32945,"date":"2023-04-28T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=32945"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:42:12","slug":"six-uf-engineering-graduate-programs-reach-higher-in-u-s-news-world-report-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/featured\/six-uf-engineering-graduate-programs-reach-higher-in-u-s-news-world-report-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Six UF Engineering graduate programs reach higher in U.S. News & World Report rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida made significant moves in the latest U.S. News & World Report <\/em>(USNWR) rankings among public graduate engineering programs, joining four others that climbed in the list of top schools for graduate engineering study.<\/p>\n

Six of the UF engineering college\u2019s disciplines \u2014 agricultural engineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, industrial engineering, materials engineering and nuclear engineering \u2014 are listed among the Top 15 public programs. Overall, the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, which saw its research expenditure grow by more than 10%, ranked #26 among all public institutions.<\/p>\n

Biomedical Engineering was the biggest mover, leaping five spots from #17 to #12. Christine Schmidt, Ph.D., Pruitt Family Professor and chair for the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, credited \u201cour strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, our substantial growth in research impact as reflected by major collaborative grants and exceptional publications, our recent strong faculty hires, and our dedication to graduate student education and mentoring\u201d for the department\u2019s strong position on the list.<\/p>\n

Also elevating several spots in the USNWR<\/em> rankings, Aerospace Engineering at UF boasts several high-profile mission projects and coveted technological expertise that Warren Dixon, Ph.D., chair and Dean\u2019s Leadership Professor for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, credits for their rise to the #16 program, up from #19.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur more senior faculty have been winning large-scale grants \u2014 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (ASOFR) Center of Excellence, NASA mission projects, including the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) \u2014 and have established UF as the<\/em> go-to place for several technological areas, such as optimization, autonomy, debris understanding and mitigation, and high precision instrumentation,\u201d Dr. Dixon said. \u201cWe have been investing new faculty hires in this area to strengthen our educational and research mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) graduate program moved up two spots to #11 among top publics, their highest rank in the past five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ranking reflects the tremendous growth of the ISE faculty, their outstanding contributions to the discipline as well as those of our top graduate students,\u201d said David Kaber, Ph.D., Dean\u2019s Leadership Professor and chair for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u201cWe are elated with this recent recognition by our peer department leaders and are emboldened to additional impactful research in ISE for improving work life and society.”<\/p>\n

Rounding out the UF graduate engineering programs that got a boost in this year\u2019s rankings are: Computer Engineering from #15 to #13, Chemical Engineering up to #16 from #18 last year; and Civil Engineering moves up a spot to #16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida made significant moves in the latest U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings among public graduate engineering programs, joining four others that climbed in the list of top schools for graduate engineering study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":32949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37671,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32945\/revisions\/37671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}