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UF College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is the largest professional school in the university, the second largest of all the colleges and one of the three largest research units. There are nearly 300 faculty members in 12 academic departments, which offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 17 disciplines, including: aerospace, agricultural, chemical, civil, coastal and oceanographic, computer and information science, computer engineering, electrical, engineering sciences, environmental, industrial, materials science and engineering, mechanical, nuclear, surveying and mapping, systems as well as interdisciplinary studies.

The engineering student body of more than 4,000 includes over 2,200 upper-division undergraduates, 1,300 on-campus graduate students and approximately 500 off-campus graduate students.

The college grants approximately 1,000 degrees annually; it ranks 11th nationally in the number of engineering bachelor's degrees awarded in 1990 to members of under-represented minority groups and ranks 15th nationally in engineering Ph.D. production.

In 1990-91, annual research expenditures exceeded $40.5 million, ranking the college 14th in the nation in this category; the college accounted for 11 percent of the $235 million in contracts and grants awarded to the university during the 1991-92 fiscal year. A significant amount of interdisciplinary research is conducted through centers ranging from the Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute, the NASA Space Grant Consortium, to the Software Engineering Research Center and the Transportation Research Center.

The growing prowess of the College of Engineering's academic standard continues to be recognized. In its March 23, 1992 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the college's graduate program as 18th in the nation, up from 23rd the year before.