Milwaukee School of Engineering’s undergraduate engineering programs overall were ranked #10 in the United States in the 2025 U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings – and the honors don’t stop there, or with engineering.
For 2025, MSOE received the following national rankings from U.S. News and World Report:
• 10th Best Engineering Programs overall in the U.S. among engineering schools whose highest degree is a bachelor’s or master’s
• 7th Best Civil Engineering Program in the U.S.
• 7th Best Computer Engineering Program in the U.S.
• 11th Best Mechanical Engineering Program in the U.S.
• 13th Best Electrical Engineering Program in the U.S.
• 193rd in Undergraduate Computer Science Programs in the U.S. (tie)
• 218th Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs in the U.S. (tie)
Regionally, MSOE was recognized as the:
• 2nd Best University in the Midwest
• 2nd Best Value University in the Midwest
• 6th Most Innovative University in the Midwest (tie)
• 20th Best University in the Midwest for Veterans (tie)
• 34th Top Performer in Social Mobility (a measure of how well schools graduated federal Pell Grant recipients) (tie)
Each year, U.S. News and World Report evaluates 1,500 colleges and universities on up to 19 measures of academic quality. MSOE’s educational programs, innovation and commitment to student success were ranked in several categories, firmly placing MSOE among the best educational institutions in the United States. U.S. News shares how they calculated rankings on their website.
The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has offered courses and degree programs in biomedical engineering since its first elective introductory course in 1968.
From 1975 to 1987, it offered a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering technology, where about 50% of its graduates became employed in hospital-based clinical engineering roles.
In 1984, it converted this technology curriculum into what has since been and is now an ABET-accredited engineering program. While not as many of its current graduates pursue HTM/clinical engineering careers, there are still a very dedicated and gifted few each year that do.
“In my current adjunct professor capacity, I continue to enthusiastically promote clinical engineering/HTM as a viable, challenging, and rewarding career path. While I continue to enjoy teaching immensely, clinical engineering was my first love and passion. As such, I still feel a deep, gut-level pride and indescribable joy in seeing so many of my former students now off and doing tremendously good and wild clinical engineering/HTM work. They are indeed carrying our torch forward – like I and many others before them had the privilege, honor, and responsibility to do so,” said Larry Fennigkoh, Ph.D.
