COLLEGE PARK, Md. – For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Maryland has been ranked among the top 10 public universities in the country for graduate engineering programs, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024-25 rankings released Tuesday.
Overall, the A. James Clark College of Engineering ranked 18th among more than 200 public and private engineering schools, moving up one spot from the last overall graduate rankings.
“The research and innovation produced by the Clark School's graduate programs, students, and faculty is driven by the pursuit of excellence and a desire to impact the world around us,” said Clark School Dean Samuel Graham Jr. “We continue to address the important challenges of our time while developing leaders who will communicate these discoveries to the world.”
This year, the magazine delayed its rankings for Best Medical Schools, Best Engineering Schools and Best Clinical Psychology Programs. Rankings for other graduate programs were released on April 9.
Maryland Tech's individual graduate programs also ranked within the top 20 among public universities, with six programs ranked within the top 15.
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118Bioengineering2812Chemical and Biomolecular3018Civil and Environmental3119Computer159Electrical159Materials Science2213Mechanical179
In January, the Clark School's online graduate engineering program was ranked 6th among U.S. schools and 13th among online graduate engineering programs for veterans. The 6th place ranking marks the school's first time in the top 10 in this category.
Recent achievements at Maryland Tech include seven students, including six graduate students, being awarded Vertical Flight Foundation scholarships and two graduate students being awarded NSF research fellowships. In December, six faculty members received federal funding to support university research in technical areas of interest to the U.S. Department of Defense. And in March, four faculty members received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program awards.
The Clark School is already home to some of the state's leading entrepreneurial and research hubs, including the $67 million E.A. Fernandez IDEA (Innovate, Design and Engineer for America) Factory and the $86 million Southern Maryland Autonomous Research and Technology (SMART) Building, and construction is underway on a $214.4 million interdisciplinary engineering building, Stanley R. Zupnick Hall.
