<p>just to start a list. no specific order.</p>
<p>Private:
Cornell
Harvard
MIT
...
idk</p>
<p>public:
Virginia Tech GOOO Hokies
RPI
UPR(rico)
Uwisconsin Madison
Umich ann arbor
USC
UNC
Texas AM</p>
<p>continue and add more!!!</p>
<p>RPI is not a public school. </p>
<p>Aren't there enough lists of engineering schools already?</p>
<p>USC is private.</p>
<p>why a&m but not UT, bucknell</p>
<p>I would hardly call Harvard a top engineering school.</p>
<p>The top engineering schools, in my opinion, are:</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
UC Berkeley
CalTech
Georgia Tech
Harvey Mudd
Olin</p>
<p>I'll think of more later.</p>
<p>Yeah UT is really good for engineering.</p>
<p>Michigan is right up with Berkeley.</p>
<p>The Service Academies.</p>
<p>It really sepends on what you are interested in.</p>
<p>Number of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) members on faculty</p>
<p>NAE membership is the highest academic honor an engineer can obtain, so it's a good proxy of the overall faculty quality</p>
<p>MIT 107
Stanford 84
Berkeley 72
UT-Austin 48
Caltech 29
Georgia Tech 25
Illinois 25
UCSB 25
Cornell 23
Michigan 21
Columbia 20
Carnegie Mellon 19
Princeton 19
U Southern California 19
Texas A&M 19
Minnesota 18
Northwestern 18
UCLA 17
UCSD 16
Wisconsin 16
Purdue 15
Harvard 14
Rice 13
Washington 13
Maryland 12
Rensselear 11
Colorado 10
Arizona 10
Va Tech 10
Case Western 9
Johns Hopkins 9
Penn 9
Virginia 9
NC State 8
Utah 7
Florida 6
Houston 6
UC Davis 6
UNC 6
UC Irvine 5
Rochester 5
Yale 5
Brown 4
Dartmouth 4
Kansas 4
U Mass 4
Pittsburgh 4
Duke 3
Tennessee 3
New Mexico 2
Notre Dame 2
Tulsa 2</p>
<p>source <a href="http://www.nae.edu%5B/url%5D">www.nae.edu</a></p>
<p>RESEARCH PROGRAMS:
Group I:
California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of California-Berkeley</p>
<p>Group II:
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>Group III:
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Rice University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>NON_RESEARCH ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
Cooper University
Harvey Mudd College
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology</p>
<p>RESEARCH PROGRAMS:</p>
<p>source?</p>
<p>top 10 (engineering with phD):</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Illinois UC</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon<br></li>
<li>Purdue</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Michigan AH</li>
</ol>
<p>Why can you guys come up with a ranking for undergrad engineering but not for physcial sciences like Biology, chem and physics? </p>
<p>There was thread about which is the better school for premed/biology and only very few dared give opinions based on ranking of the program. tsk-tsk...</p>
<p>My personal choice is Berkeley but I know for a fact that there are equally good engineering schools all over america, among which is MIT, Stanford, Caltech, carnegie, georgia tech, UT, U of Illionois, Northwester, Cornell and Purdue.</p>
<p>RPI is certainly a more highly regarded engineering school than Georgia Tech or Purdue. The other school you're trying to refer to is called Cooper Union.</p>
<p>Because USNews has UG eng rankings.</p>
<p>Gellino, I am not sure RPI is more highly regarded than Purdue and it is definitely not more highly regarded than Georgia Tech. GT and Purdue are both regarded as top 10 Engineering programs. From your post above, you seem to indicate one of two things: </p>
<p>1) RPI is a top 3 or 4 Engineering program, on par with Cal, Caltech, MIT and Stanford. </p>
<p>2) Purdue and Georgia Tech aren't among the top 20 Engineering programs. </p>
<p>Neither is the case.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong. RPI is definitely an excellent Engineering program. Possibly on par with Purdue and Georgia Tech, but in my opinion, it is not "certainly more highly regarded" than either.</p>
<p>JWT:</p>
<p>Thanks. That was useful information. Do they have it broken down by NAE members as a percentage of total engineering faculty?</p>
<p>Alex, RPI is the oldest engineering school in the country. RPI and Georgia Tech have the same avg SAT and RPI is more than 170 points higher than Purdue. PR lists RPI's top three overlap schools as Cornell, MIT, Carnagie Mellon. PR lists Purdue's top three overlap schools as Valparaiso, Indiana St. and Ball State. At the very least, any list of top engineering schools that includes Georgia Tech and Purdue should include RPI as well.</p>
<p>I don't know if you can really compare these schools when it comes down to the nitty gritty. I mean look at the size of Purdue, Ga Tech, Michigan, etc vs. schools like RPI. The sheer size of the school puts an advantage right there. Also 60% of RPI is engineering - it's the main focus of the school with the most emphasis where with those other schools you're lucky if it's 30%. Those rankings are based more on size, applicants, faculty, research, and money as opposed to the type of education you're getting. The real rankings should come from real world situations. Look at how the job market affects graduates or where the graduates end up. The CEO of Motorola came from RPI; when you graduate you aren't a number but companies know exactly who each person is and what they are getting. You are not just another Ga Tech graduate, 1 of 5,000, and that fact is highly valued. RPI was the first engineering school in the nation doesn't that count for anything? I personally find all of the ranking systems flawed in this nature. The bottom line is your going to get a good education at any of those schools - that is why they are highly regarded. But to base prestige and classification on general overall rankings I find that very hard to do and very misinformative.</p>