<p>im an incoming junior in high school and i was looing into aerospace engineering. does anyone know of some good colleges/univ that have high ranked aerospace/aeronautical engineering majors for undergrad? thanks!</p>
<p>Id look less on a "ranking" for a college and more on what you actually want out of your education ;).</p>
<p>Ex. Big School, small school, Athletic school (like Big Ten schools), LAC, etc.</p>
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<li> Massachusetts Inst. of Technology</li>
<li> Georgia Institute of Technology </li>
<li> University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *</li>
<li> Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)</li>
<li> Stanford University (CA)</li>
<li> California Institute of Technology</li>
<li> U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *</li>
<li> Princeton University (NJ)</li>
<li> University of Texas–Austin *</li>
<li> Univ. of Maryland–College Park *</li>
<li> Texas A&M Univ.–College Station *</li>
<li> University of California–Berkeley *</li>
<li> Cornell University (NY)</li>
<li> University of Washington *
Pennsylvania State U.–University Park *</li>
<li> Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
Virginia Tech *</li>
<li> University of Colorado–Boulder *</li>
<li> Univ. of Southern California</li>
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<p>In addition to explicitly "aerospace" engineering, also look at strong mechanical engineering departments. The aerospace engineering industry hires candidates from all kinds of engineering fields... mechanical, structural, electrical... It's not at all limited to those who are in strictly aerospace engineering.</p>
<p>Many places don't offer aerospace engineering for undergraduates. For example Stanford doesn't offer one officially to undergrads but you could design a major and call it aerospace or alternatively just do your undergrad in mechanical and then pursue aerospace for your graduate degrees.</p>
<p>I would like to second what airbarr has stated. Aerospace engineering is really just one subset of the broad field of mechanical engineering. By studying aerospace engineering you have the potential to close several mechanical engineering doors but the reverse really isn't true. By studying MechE you will leave every door open and still have the ability to concentrate on Aerospace topics such as controls, propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, etc. By doing so you will put yourself in a great position for an aerospace career while still having every option (which is a lot) that a traditional MechE would have.</p>
<p>U of Toronto has an undergraduate engineering science program where you can specialize in aeronautical engineering.
UMichigan also has an aeronautical engineering program.</p>
<p>Embry Riddle is pretty good for aerospace. Nothing else but it is an excellent non Phd aerospace school</p>
<p>It really depends what your want out of college, like CH121S said. But without any additional information to go on, I'd recommend GT. Excellent AE program and the largest co-op program (and 4th oldest, I think) in the nation, thus you can expect a lot of industry contact. An AE friend of mine has spent the last 3 summers at Lockheed Martin.</p>