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Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Makes Top 100 in U.S. News Rankings
March 12, 2019
The Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering placed in the top 100 in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Graduate Schools rankings for civil engineering and environmental engineering, released on March 12, 2019.
The 2020 U.S. News Survey ranked UNM 89 in civil engineering and 67 in environmental engineering.
The Best Graduate Schools rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.
For the rankings of graduate engineering programs, more than 200 engineering schools that grant doctoral degrees were surveyed. Data were collected in fall 2018 and early 2019. Factors that went into the rankings include:
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Peer assessment: U.S. News asked deans, program directors, and senior faculty to judge the academic quality of programs in their field on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding). In business, education, engineering, law and medicine, U.S. News also surveyed professionals who hire new graduates. The schools supplied the names of the surveyed professionals.
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Recruiter assessment: Corporate recruiters and company contacts are asked to rate programs on a scale from marginal to outstanding. All the names of those surveyed for the recruiter assessment score were provided by the engineering schools themselves.
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Student selectivity: Mean GRE scores and acceptance rate.
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Faculty resources, including student-faculty ratio, percentage of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering, doctoral degree awarded.
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Research activity, including total research expenditures and average research expenditures per faculty member.