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Rock Drilling Competition

The giant rocks outside Old Main on the UA campus, some weighing almost 20 tons, are donated by engineering alums at a local mining company. Mining engineering students then use them for drilling competitions.

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National Rankings

The National Science Foundation (NSF) ranks UA 21st among all universities nationwide in research funding, and 14th among public universities. The overall ranking for the UA is up from 22nd in the last NSF report. UA ranked 3rd in the country in physical sciences research spending, at more than $124 million, and 14th in the country in industry-financed research expenditures, at nearly $30 million.

US News & World Report ranks UA’s:

Graduate program in industrial engineering 27th in the country

Graduate program in aerospace engineering 28th

Graduate program in environmental engineering 31st

Graduate program in civil engineering 38th

Graduateshotline.com ranked UA Engineering 42nd in the country.