Established 1854 Website engineering.wustl.edu Dean Aaron Bobick Founded 1854 Postgraduates 547 | Undergraduates 1,062 Campus Suburban Endowment 200 million USD Academic staff 88 (tenured/tenure-track) Type of business Private university | |
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Location St. Louis, Missouri, USA Profiles |
The School of Engineering & Applied Science is a part of Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1854, the engineering school is a research institution occupying seven buildings on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. Research emphasis is placed on cross-disciplinary technologies in the areas of alternative energy, environmental engineering & sustainable technology, biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology/materials science.
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The Princeton Review ranks Washington University's Graduate Engineering Program 13th in the nation. Additionally, the school's undergraduate computer science program has gained top national reputation.
The US News and World Report ranks Washington University's Undergraduate program 13th in the nation and the Graduate Engineering Program 48th in the nation.