CSE undergrad programs get high national rankings

All individual programs rank in the Top 20 among publics

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/23/2025) — The U.S. News and World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings are out, and we have good news!

Overall, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering's undergraduate engineering program continues to rank in the Top 15 among public universities nationwide.

All of the individual engineering and computer science undergraduate programs rank in the Top 20 among publics, and two programs ranked in the top 10 among public universities—chemical engineering and biomedical engineering.

See all the new rankings on the U.S. News and World Report website.

New rankings follow 2025 graduate rankings

These new rankings come on the heels of last spring's U.S. News and World Report's graduate program rankings where CSE's engineering and computer science master's and Ph.D. programs continue to rank in the Top 20 among public universities nationwide.

Four of our graduate programs ranked in the Top 10 among public universities—Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

#1 interdisciplinary ranking

In addition, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities was ranked as the top public university in the U.S. and sixth overall (out of 749 institutions around the world) in the first-ever global Interdisciplinary Science Rankings (ISR) last year by The Times Higher Education.

“The greatest challenges impacting our people and our communities can only be solved by working differently — by working across traditional academic siloes. This is where the University of Minnesota truly excels,” said University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham. “The U of M is a national leader in interdisciplinary collaboration. Our teams are working across fields to generate new frontiers of knowledge, spark new innovations and discoveries, and find solutions that drive the health and prosperity of our society.”