For 2022 U.S. News ranks UNM in the top 100 of the Best Engineering Schools in the country for graduate study The categories in which we were in the top 100 are: Best Graduate Civil Engineering Program #84, Best Graduate Environmental Engineering program #59, and Best Engineering Schools for Graduate study #84. The UNM Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) is New Mexico's premier and most comprehensive department of civil engineering. Housed within UNM's impressive Centennial Engineering Center (CEC), the Department has more faculty than all other civil engineering departments in the state combined and offers active research programs in construction, environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources engineering. The CEC building, occupied in the fall of 2008, is home to spacious classrooms, hydraulics, environmental, and structures laboratories, and state-of-the-art equipment that affords students unique research opportunities and exceptional hands-on experience.<br><br>The Ph.D. degree requires a minimum of 48 credits of course work plus 18 hours of dissertation credits. Generally, the MS-CE degree completed at UNM counts for a maximum of 30 credits of course work. For students with an MSCE degree from another university, a maximum of 24 credits may be applied as transfer credits. For all students, at least 24 credits must be taken at UNM and at least 18 credits must be completed after admission to the PhD program in Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. In addition, 18 credits must be earned at UNM in courses numbered 500 or above. Ph.D. students must complete the M.S. core course requirements established in their area of specialty.