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University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”

The UW-Madison College of Engineering is ranked 13th among public universities.

This year, several individual disciplines within the College of Engineering were ranked. The rankings among U.S. public universities include:

Biomedical: 7
Chemical: 5
Civil: 11
Computer: 8
Electrical: 9
Industrial: 5
Materials: 8
Mechanical: 8
Nuclear: 2

U.S. News does not rank all programs each year.