Industrial engineering moves to sixth place in graduate program rankings
3/15/2019
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The industrial engineering (IE) graduate program at Penn State is ranked sixth in the latest annual U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, released this week.
The 2020 edition shows that the IE program moved up one spot from seventh last year amongst its counterparts at other national universities and up six spots from twelfth four years ago.
“This is very exciting news for us,” said Janis Terpenny, department head of the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. “We are very proud of the quality of our program, our students and our faculty, whose work is addressing fundamental methods and tools needed to take on great challenges associated with innovative products, processes and systems of health care, energy, manufacturing and more.”
According to U.S. News & World Report, the rankings are based on peer assessments by department heads in each specialty area, conducted in fall 2018. Department heads rated the other schools that offered a doctoral degree in their specialty on a 5-point scale. The sixth place in the rankings puts Penn State’s industrial engineering program in the top 7 percent of programs ranked nationally.
Other College of Engineering departments that showed improvement this year include chemical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering and materials engineering.
Read more about Penn State’s overall graduate school rankings and how other graduate programs faired on the U.S. News website.
More information about the industrial engineering graduate program can be on the department’s Graduate Studies page.
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