<p>Hello CC community. Where, in your ingenuous opinions, do they churn out engineers of the highest calibre? Please post.</p>
<p>MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech</p>
<p>Prodigalson listed the top 4 Engineering programs in the US. The next group of 5 or 6 are:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Other excellent Engineering schools include:</p>
<p>Northwestern University
Princeton University
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Rice University
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>All the Service Academies.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech</p>
<p>Is this list for you?</p>
<p>If so, what are your stats?</p>
<p>If your stats fit these top schools then GREAT!</p>
<p>But, if your stats fall a bit short, then you need to assemble a list of great engineering schools for YOUR stats. :)</p>
<p>Add UT Austin to that list Alexandre gave, perhaps most appropriately in the first category with Carnegie Mellon, etc.</p>
<p>You could probably throw in RPI and Lehigh as well</p>
<p>Uhmm, you’re not going to include either Olin or Harvey Mudd on the list? Because for an undergrad, I’d consider those programs to be at the very top.</p>
<p>My list:
MIT
Mudd
Olin
Caltech
Naval Academy
West Point
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Hey VanHalen. You’re not going to like this answer. But “engineers of the highest caliber”, you might be surprised to learn, can come from a huge cross-section of schools…not just the ones mentioned in this thread.</p>
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This absolutely sums it up. I still feel that in many cases, what limits the student from becoming someone “of the highest caliber” is the student and not the program.</p>
<p>^ Don’t you think it’s both?</p>
<p>OP, I’d say MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech are the best of the very best for engineering.</p>
<p>^Nope. Those are some of the best engineering schools in the US. I graduated from two of them…but I’ll be the first to point out that “engineers of the highest caliber” come from a far, far larger list than that.</p>
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<p>Maybe, but there are many, many more of them at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech.</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
GTech
UMich
UMCP
Penn State
CAL</p>
<p>“Maybe, but there are many, many more of them at MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech.”</p>
<p>As a percentage of the class maybe. So?</p>
<p>Engineers at top privates such as MIT, Stanford, Princeton, etc. have more flexibility than ones at state flagships should they choose to branch out in non-engineering fields (e.g. i-banking, consulting, etc.).</p>
<p>Also, they don’t face the same degree of grade deflation as their public counterparts, which could hurt their chances at med, biz, or law schools…</p>
<p>Cooper Union
3rd best engineering school in the country after MIT/Caltech, and plus it’s free!</p>
<p>^OP was asking about engineering.</p>
<p>^^^ OP could change his or her mind re: intended major and/or career goals. Many, if not most students do…</p>