Best Engineering Schools

Engineering is one of the core competencies of many of the top universities. The best engineering schools typically offer majors in each of the significant disciplines, although a some colleges that specialize in a limited number of degree specialties also have made the rankings this year. We expect the best colleges for engineering to imbue their students with the skills of creativity and dispassionate inquiry into the real workings of nature and its material components. With these abilities societies in the modern era have applied engineering ingenuity to an increasing growth of technologies enhancing the human experience and quality of life.

Ranking the Best Colleges for Engineering Majors

In analyzing the top Engineering schools we have applied our RealRank^TM methodologies, and also have considered the rankings for these schools in majors we have covered. You can find a full listing of the major engineering degree fields along with our college rankings at the end of this article.

Rank	College	City	State
1	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta	GA
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	MA
3	Stanford University	Palo Alto	CA
4	Purdue University	West Lafayette	IN
5	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	IL
6	Texas A&M University	College Station	TX
7	University of Texas	Austin	TX
8	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena	CA
9	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	MI
10	Penn State	University Park	PA
11	Cornell University	Ithaca	NY
12	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	PA
13	University of California - Berkeley	Berkeley	CA
14	Northwestern University	Evanston	IL
15	North Carolina State University	Raleigh	NC
16	University Of Wisconsin - Madison	Madison	WI
17	The Ohio State University	Columbus	OH
18	University of Washington	Seattle	WA
19	Virginia Polytechnic University (Virginia Tech)	Blacksburg	VA
20	Columbia University	New York	NY
21	University of California - Los Angeles	Los Angeles	CA
22	University of Florida	Gainesville	FL
23	Princeton University	Princeton	NJ
24	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	PA
25	University of Maryland	College Park	MD
26	United States Military Academy	West Point	NY
27	University of Southern California	Los Angeles	CA
28	Rice University	Houston	TX
29	Duke University	Durham	NC
30	University of California - San Diego	San Diego	CA
31	United States Naval Academy	Annapolis	MD
32	University of Minnesota	Twin Cities	MN
33	University of Colorado - Boulder	Boulder	CO
34	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado Springs	CO
35	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD
36	Harvard University	Cambridge	MA
37	University of California - Davis	Davis	CA
38	Yale University	New Haven	CT
39	Arizona State University	Tempe	AZ
40	University of Tennessee	Knoxville	TN
41	Iowa State University	Ames	IA
42	New York University	New York	NY
43	University of Notre Dame	South Bend	IN
44	University of Arizona	Tuscon	AZ
45	Rutgers University	Piscataway	NJ
46	Michigan State University	East Lansing	MI
47	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	TN
48	University of Virginia	Charlottesville	VA
49	University of Utah	Salt Lake City	UT
50	University of California - Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	CA
51	Colorado School of Mines	Golden	CO
52	University of Central Florida	Orlando	FL
53	University of Delaware	Newark	DE
54	Brown University	Providence	RI
55	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland	OH
56	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	Amherst	MA
57	University of Chicago	Chicago	IL
58	Boston University	Boston	MA
59	Northeastern University	Boston	MA
60	University of California - Irvine	Irvine	CA
61	Colorado State University	Ft. Collins	CO
62	Rensselear Polytechnic Institute	Troy	NY
63	Clemson University	Clemson	SC
64	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PA
65	Washington State University	Pullman	WA
66	Oregon State University	Corvallis	OR
67	Lehigh University	Bethlehem	PA
68	University of Houston	Houston	TX
69	Stony Brook University - SUNY	Stony Brook	NY
70	Auburn University	Auburn	AL
71	University at Buffalo - SUNY	Buffalo	NY
72	University of Nebraska	Lincoln	NB
73	Florida State University	Tallahassee	FL
74	Mississippi State University	Starkville	MS
75	University of South Carolina	Columbia	SC
76	University of Oklahoma	Norman	OK
77	Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken	NJ
78	Texas Tech University	Lubbock	TX
79	University of Iowa	Iowa City	IA
80	University of Rochester	Rochester	NY
81	University of Kentucky	Lexington	KY
82	University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV)	Las Vegas	NV
83	University of Cincinnati	Cincinnati	OH
84	University of Texas at Dallas	Dallas	TX
85	University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	AL
86	Louisiana State University (LSU)	Baton Rouge	LA
87	Oklahoma State University	Stillwater	OK
88	University of Kansas	Lawrence	KS
89	University of New Mexico	Albuquerque	NM
90	Dartmouth College	Hanover	NH
91	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis	MO
92	Missouri University of Science and Technology	Rolla	MO
93	Wichita State University	Wichita	KS
94	University of South Florida	Tampa	FL
95	University of Connecticut	Storrs	CT
96	Tufts University	Medford	MA
97	Virginia Military Institute	Lexington	VA
98	University of Georgia	Athens	GA
99	University of Texas at Arlington	Arlington	TX
100	University of Illinois - Chicago	Chicago	IL

More information on our RealRank analyses used in creating this ranking can be found on the About page. The underlined colleges link to our ranking profile specific to that institution. If your college is not profiled as yet, contact us using the contact form.

Related major rankings:

Best Colleges For Chemical Engineering
Best Colleges For Civil Engineering
Best Colleges For Computer Science
Best Colleges For Industrial Engineering / Operations Research
Best Colleges For Materials Science and Engineering
Best Colleges For Mechanical Engineering.

What Majors Do Engineering Schools Cover?

Among the most popular majors that you find at Engineering schools are as follows:

Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Industrial Engineering / Operations Research
Materials Science and Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Agricultural Engineering
Architectural Engineering
Bioengineering / Biomedical Engineering
Construction Engineering
Ceramics
Electrical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Software Engineering
Structural Engineering
Textile Engineering

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