Our points of pride
The UNM School of Engineering is the highest-ranked engineering program in New Mexico, and the only Carnegie R1 (highest research activity) university in the state, putting it in the same class as MIT, Stanford, Purdue and other well-respected engineering programs in the country.
UNM is a member of the Sandia Academic Alliance, along with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, Purdue, and Georgia Tech.
UNM ranks No. 2 in impact of innovation for Mid-Sized Research Universities in the 2020 George W. Bush Institute and Opus Faveo Innovation Development poll
U.S. News & World Report rankings
Best Graduate Schools for Engineering 2023
- #86 overall graduate program
Specialty rankings:
- #14 nuclear engineering
- #74 environmental engineering
- #63 electrical engineering
- #69 computer engineering
- #77 chemical engineering
- #99 computer science
- #122 mechanical engineering
- #98 civil engineering
- #111 biomedical engineering
Best Undergraduate Programs in Engineering 2021
- Undergraduate engineering programs: #90
Best Online Programs in Engineering 2022
- Graduate engineering: #61
Other notable rankings
- #1 online program in computer engineering (Internet of Things) Most Affordable Online Master’s Programs in Computer Engineering (OnlineU, 2019)
- Named a best program for online master’s in construction management (OnlineMasters.com, 2019)
- #18 in the nation as the “best value” engineering school (Best Value Schools, 2018)
- The TFE Times has ranked the computer engineering master’s program at The University of New Mexico as No. 35 in the country for 2020.
- The University of New Mexico School of Engineering’s master of science program in computer engineering is ranked No. 1 in a list of the 2020 Most Affordable Online Master’s Programs in Computer Engineering ranking by OnlineU.
- The University of New Mexico School of Engineering’s online master of science program in space systems engineering is ranked No. 1 in a list of the 2020 Most Affordable Online Master’s Programs in Mechanical Engineering by OnlineU.
- OnlineU ranks UNM’s space systems engineering UNM’s space systems engineering online program (mechanical engineering track) as No. 1 in the 2020 Most Affordable Online Master's in Aerospace Engineering Programs and No. 2 for 2020 Most Affordable Online Master’s in Systems Engineering
- OnlineU ranks UNM’s space systems engineering UNM’s space systems engineering online program (electrical engineering track) as No 2 in affordability
- UNM ranks No 62 as a “Top Performer on Social Mobility” in the U.S. News & World Report 2020’s Best Colleges ranking
- UNM ranks No. 94 in “Campus Ethnic Diversity” in the U.S. News & World Report 2020’s Best Colleges ranking