April 8, 2025 UW-Madison engineering graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News Written By: Staff Departments: Biomedical Engineering|Chemical & Biological Engineering|Civil & Environmental Engineering|Electrical & Computer Engineering|Industrial & Systems Engineering|Materials Science & Engineering|Mechanical Engineering|Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics Categories: Graduate|Research|Students University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2025 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: 8 Chemical: 8 Civil: 11 Computer: 9 Electrical: 9 Environmental: 12 Industrial: 5 Materials: 11 Mechanical: 9 Nuclear: 2 U.S. News does not rank all programs each year.