Wyatt Hall, far right, a graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering, works with students in an agricultural engineering lab. Larger image. Photo by Dana K. Woolley.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University’s graduate program in agriculture and biosystems engineering continues to be a national leader, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings released today.
The program ranks fourth overall and fourth among public universities, according to the magazine’s 2014 rankings.
Other highly ranked graduate programs on the Iowa State campus include statistics, many engineering disciplines and chemistry. Iowa State is among the top 25 public universities in 12 of the magazine’s college and department rankings.
The magazine says it analyzed more than 1,300 graduate programs to compile the rankings. Every year, the magazine publishes new rankings for some disciplines and older rankings for others.
Here are Iowa State’s numbers:
Schools of Engineering, 46th overall (25th among public universities)
- Biological/Agricultural Engineering, fourth overall (and fourth among public schools)
- Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems Engineering, 25th overall (16th among public schools)
- Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering, 26th overall (18th among public schools)
- Materials Engineering, 29th overall (17th among public schools)
- Chemical Engineering, 31st overall (18th among public schools)
- Civil Engineering, 31st overall (20th among public schools)
- Computer Engineering, 35th overall (21st among public schools)
- Mechanical Engineering, 36th overall (21st among public schools)
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, 40th overall (26th among public schools)
- Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering, 41st overall (25th among public schools)
Veterinary Medicine, 17th overall (14th among public schools) ranked in 2011
Schools of Business, 73rd overall (39th among public schools)
Schools of Education, 86th overall (62nd among public schools)
Statistics, 19th overall (11th among public schools)
Chemistry, 45th overall (28th among public schools)
Physics, 50th overall (30th among public schools)
Economics, 55th overall (30th among public schools), ranked in 2013
Computer Science, 63rd overall (37th among public schools)
Math, 68th overall (41st among public schools)
Sociology, 74th overall (51st among public schools), ranked in 2013
Biological Sciences, 75th overall (42nd among public schools)
Psychology, 78th overall (49th among public schools) ranked in 2013
Fine Arts, 93rd overall (54th among public schools), ranked in 2012
Earth Sciences, 102nd overall (75th among public schools)
Public Affairs, 104th overall (77th among public schools) ranked in 2012
English, 106th overall (67th among public schools), ranked in 2013
History, 110th overall (63rd among public schools), ranked in 2013
Part-time MBA, 146th overall (85th among public schools)