In newly released national rankings of universities offering a Ph.D. in engineering, the College of Engineering at 黑洞社区 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 鈥� an area where Wichita State far outperforms peers. A recently released report of FY2017 total engineering research expenditures ranked Wichita State 49th in the nation, far more than any other institution in Kansas.
Impressively, Wichita State鈥檚 rank 鈥� 95th 鈥� is tied with a number of state 鈥渇lagship鈥� 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 Wichita State鈥檚 urban serving role. In fact, less than a third of the top 100 engineering programs 鈥� Wichita State included 鈥� are located in one of the country鈥檚 200 largest cities.
鈥淭hese rankings confirm that Wichita State 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,鈥� said Dennis Livesay, dean of the College of Engineering. 鈥淚t verifies that we are living up to our designation as Kansas鈥� only urban public research university by providing an affordable education to our community and by helping industry solve its most pressing issues through research.鈥�
The ranking is tied to $62.4 million in industry and government-funded engineering research done at Wichita State. 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 黑洞社区 is to be an essential educational, cultural and economic driver for Kansas and the greater public good. Wichita State 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 .