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UT PGE Grad Program Continues to Lead in 2024–2025 U.S. News Rankings

June 18, 2024
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The Hildebrand Department’s graduate program in petroleum engineering is No. 1 in the country, according to the 2024–2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings released this week. UT PGE has held this top ranking continuously since 2003.

Engineering specialty rankings are based on peer assessments by department heads in each specialty area. Each program’s score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.

With more than $20 million secured in research funding last year alone and 272 journal and conference papers published annually, UT PGE provides its graduate students with opportunities to participate in high-caliber energy research in traditional oil and gas as well as geothermal energy, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen storage, AI, data analytics, and more.

UT Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks No. 8 in the nation

Graduate students learn from and conduct research with top academic minds, including five National Academy of Engineering faculty members and 16 distinguished members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. They hear from industry leaders on cutting-edge projects in the subsurface environment through UT PGE’s Claude R. Hocott Lectureship in Petroleum Engineering and Greening the Oilfield speaker series, and they receive expert industry mentorship through events like the annual Energy AI Hackathon.

UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering ranked No. 8 among graduate engineering schools . In addition to petroleum engineering, two other programs ranked in the top 5, seven in the top 10 and all programs finished in the top 20. The annual engineering graduate program rankings are based on student acceptance rates, faculty/student ratios, research expenditures, citations in top journals, reputation among engineers in industry and academia, the number of doctoral degrees produced, the percentage of faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and entrance exam scores.

 

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