March 11, 2014
The University of Texas at Austin’s aerospace engineering graduate program has been ranked No. 8 by the U.S. News & World Report 2015 graduate program rankings, confirming the department’s position as one of the nation’s elite aerospace engineering graduate programs.
More than 100 students are enrolled in the aerospace engineering graduate program, where they work side-by-side with world-renowned faculty. The department’s affiliated research centers also provide opportunities for graduate students to conduct discipline-specific as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary research in areas such as computational mechanics, fluid mechanics, unmanned aerial vehicle systems, robotics, small satellites, space systems and more.
The Cockrell School of Engineering rose to the top 10 this year and is currently ranked 5th among all public engineering schools nationally.
The boost in graduate rankings comes at a significant time for the Cockrell School. Last month, the school announced that four faculty members were elected to the esteemed National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the highest number among universities nationally in 2014. And in January, the school announced a $20 million gift from the Mulva Family Foundation that will help build the new Engineering Education and Research Center, a 430,000-square-foot facility that will be dedicated to interdisciplinary teaching and research and will transform the UT Austin campus.
The U.S. News and World Report engineering school rankings are based on student acceptance rates, faculty/student ratios, research expenditures, reputation among engineers in industry and academia, the number of doctorate degrees produced, the percentage of faculty elected to membership in NAE and entrance exam scores.
