In newly released national rankings of universities offering a Ph.D. in engineering, the College of Engineering at ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ is ranked in the top 100 engineering graduate programs, one of only two institutions from the state of Kansas to make the list.
The 2020 are based on a number of factors including reputation among peer institutions and industry recruiters, student selectivity, faculty resources and research expenditures β an area where ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ far outperforms peers. A recently released report of FY2017 total engineering research expenditures ranked ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ 49th in the nation, far more than any other institution in Kansas.
Impressively, ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨βs rank β 95th β is tied with a number of state βflagshipβ universities, including the University of Kansas, the University of Kentucky, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of South Carolina. This is particularly noteworthy given ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨βs urban serving role. In fact, less than a third of the top 100 engineering programs β ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ included β are located in one of the countryβs 200 largest cities.
βThese rankings confirm that ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ is not only the best value proposition for an engineering education in the state of Kansas, our high level of research activity rightfully places us among the best in the nation,β said Dennis Livesay, dean of the College of Engineering. βIt verifies that we are living up to our designation as Kansasβ only urban public research university by providing an affordable education to our community and by helping industry solve its most pressing issues through research.β
The ranking is tied to $62.4 million in industry and government-funded engineering research done at ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨. In fact, the latest NSF ranking also places Wichita State fifth in total aerospace engineering research dollars, just ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6) and Purdue University (7).
The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) generates a significant amount of the university's R&D funding to perform industry and government certification testing and research. The university as a whole recently set a new record for total research and development awards in FY2018 with a total of $104.5 million, the first time the university has achieved greater than $100 million in research awards in its history.
The mission of ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ is to be an essential educational, cultural and economic driver for Kansas and the greater public good. ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ is a doctoral research university enrolling nearly 15,000 students and offering 59 undergraduate degree programs in more than 150 areas of study in seven undergraduate colleges. The Graduate School offers 45 master's and 12 doctoral degrees that offer study in more than 100 areas. is an interconnected community of partnership buildings, laboratories and mixed-use areas where students, faculty, staff, entrepreneurs and businesses have access to the university's vast resources and technology. For more information, follow us on Twitter at and Facebook at .