All of the graduate programs that EER draws on have top 20 or higher national rankings, with especially high recognition in energy areas.
Jackson School of Geosciences
| U.S. News & World Report Rankings, 2010-11 | |
| Earth Sciences Overall | No. 9 |
| Earth Science specialties: | |
| Geology | No. 3 |
| Geophysics & Seismology | No. 6 |
Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
| U.S. News & World Report Rankings, 2006-07† | |
| Overall Graduate Program, Petroleum Engineering | No. 1 |
LBJ School of Public Affairs
| U.S. News & World Report Rankings, 2010-11 | |
| Overall Graduate Program, Public Affairs | No. 14 |
McCombs School of Business
| Forbes, 2009 | |
| Full-Time MBA | No. 11 |
| U.S. News & World Report Rankings, 2010-11 | |
| Full-Time MBA | No. 16 |
| Accounting | No. 1 |
| Management Information Systems | No. 3 |
| Entrepreneurship | No. 9 |
| Marketing | No. 15 |
| Productions/Operations Management | No. 11 |
| Finance | No. 15 |
| Management | No. 19 |
| Supply Chain / Logistics | No. 20 |
| Business Week, 2009 | |
| MBA | No. 21 |
† Most recent ranking. U.S. News & World Report did not include Petroleum Engineering in its 2010 edition.
