http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/rankings/2011/110315CordovaGradR "Engineering: Purdue's College of Engineering was ranked 11th in the country , tied with the University of Southern California" "Five of the schools in engineering were in the top 10 in the country in specialty rankings, including a No. 1 ranking for agricultural and biological engineering. Others in the top 10 are civil, in a four-way tie at third with Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Texas-Austin; aeronautics and astronautics, sixth; mechanical, ninth; and industrial, 10th, tied with the University of Wisconsin-Madison."