U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Graduate Programs in the country for 2012, and the UT ECE Department is ranked #9 in Electrical Engineering and #10 in Computer Engineering. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country. U.S. News surveyed 198 programs to get the information used in the ranking of top engineering schools. The UT Cockrell School of Engineering was ranked #8 for its overall excellence in Graduate Engineering programs. The program was rated based on factors including peer assessment, student slectivity, mean GRE scores, acceptance rate, faculty resources, student to faculty ratio, doctoral degrees awarded, and research activity.