下是US News & World Report 2011 & 2005核能工程或核子工程美國大學前10名的排名，雖然兩者的名單落差頗大，但可以看出多是名校在相互較勁，沒有變動的只有前兩名: 密西根大學Ann Arbor及威斯康辛大學Madison，另外德州A&M大學及賓州大學University Park分校仍維持前十名，其他都不一樣了，不過相信那些消失的大學仍然是具有競爭力的，畢竟他們仍然是名校:

2011 Ranking:
1 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
2 University of Wisconsin--Madison
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Texas A&M University--College Station (Look)
5 Pennsylvania State University--University Park
   University of California--Berkeley
7 North Carolina State University
8 Georgia Institute of Technology
9 Oregon State University
   University of Florida
   University of Tennessee--Knoxville

2005 Ranking:

Rank, AAU public universities, Average Assessment Score
1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4.2
1 University of Wisconsin, Madison 4.2
3 Purdue University, West Lafayette 4.0
3 Texas A&M University, College Station 4.0
5 Penn State University, University Park 3.6
5 University of California, Berkeley 3.6
7 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 3.3
8 University of Florida 3.2
9 University of Missouri, Columbia 2.7
10 Ohio State University 2.6