best engineering shool

<p>what are the top engineering schools (college and university) in america at the moment? and what are their age restrictions (like 18+ or 21+ etc) if any</p>

<p>Mit, Cmu, Uiuc</p>

<p>Where are you from?</p>

<p>Cornell
Princeton
Stanford
Northwestern
Berkeley
Michigan
Rice
Illinois
Carnegie Mellon
MIT
Caltech
Maryland
Johns Hopkins
Georgia Tech</p>

<p>I don't see how UT-Austin can be left off the list of the top engineering schools, considering it has the highest number of faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering of all but 4 schools on that list.</p>

<p>By faculty membership in the NAE (membership is considered one of the highest academic honors and engineer can attain)</p>

<p>MIT 109
Stanford 85
Berkeley 75
UT-Austin 49
Caltech 30
Illinois 29
Georgia Tech 26
Cornell 24
Carnegie Mellon 21
Princeton 21
Northwestern 18
Rice 12
Maryland 11
Johns Hopkins 10</p>

<p>what about if you don't want a phD and those schools were too difficult. would cal poly and a few other UC's qualify as not necessarily best but better?</p>

<p>^ Definitely. You don't need a PhD in engineering, unless you're going to teach the subject.</p>

<p>USNews 2009 Undergrad Engineering Rankings:</p>

<p>Best Colleges Specialty Rankings: Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs</p>

<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.7927
2 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA 4.6615
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA 4.651<br>
4 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 4.5155
5 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4.5134
6 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 4.4503
7 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 4.4032
8 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 4.2766
9 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 4.1905
10 Purdue University--West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 4.1875
11 University of Texas--Austin Austin, TX 4.1459
12 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.0718
13 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI 3.9663
14 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 3.9231
15 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 3.8859
16 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 3.8715
17 Pennsylvania State University--University Park University Park, PA 3.828
18 Texas A&M University--College Station College Station, TX 3.8103
19 Rice University Houston, TX 3.8047
20 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA 3.7622
21 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 3.6868
22 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 3.68
23 University of Maryland--College Park College Park, MD 3.6798
24 University of Washington Seattle, WA 3.6784
25 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 3.6494
26 Duke University Durham, NC 3.5866
27 Columbia University New York, NY 3.5833
28 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 3.5466
29 North Carolina State University--Raleigh Raleigh, NC 3.5322
30 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.5091
31 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 3.5029
32 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 3.497
33 Ohio State University--Columbus Columbus, OH 3.4943<br>
34 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 3.4615
35 University of Colorado--Boulder Boulder, CO 3.4294<br>
36 University of California--Davis Davis, CA 3.3736
37 University of California--Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 3.3648
38 Brown University Providence, RI 3.3291
39 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 3.3072
40 Iowa State University Ames, IA 3.2781
41 Yale University New Haven, CT 3.2771
42 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 3.2632
42 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 3.2632
44 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 3.2516<br>
45 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 3.2514
46 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 3.2118
47 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 3.1734
48 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 3.1709
49 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 3.1412
50 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 3.131
51 University of Delaware Newark, DE 3.044
52 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 3.0248
53 Clemson University Clemson, SC 3.0244
54 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 3.0225
55 Auburn University Auburn University, AL 3.0182
56 University of California--Irvine Irvine, CA 3.0126
57 University of Massachusetts--Amherst Amherst, MA 3.0062
58 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 2.9682
59 Tufts University Medford, MA 2.9669
60 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 2.9639
61 University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 2.9438<br>
62 Boston University Boston, MA 2.94
63 Northeastern University Boston, MA 2.9349
64 University of Illinois--Chicago Chicago, IL 2.9281
65 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 2.9182
66 SUNY--Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 2.9161<br>
67 Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 2.8926
68 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 2.8773
69 University at Buffalo--SUNY Buffalo, NY 2.8571</p>

<p>quote from collegehelp-''Where are you from?</p>

<p>im from nigeria'not the US...are liberal arts colleges in the US good for engineering students and do any of these colleges have a minimum age restriction?</p>

<p>There is no single best, but there are those that are better or worse for you.</p>

<p>You can't get better than the likes of MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, Cornell, Caltech.</p>

<p>Liberal Arts Colleges with engineering include
Bucknell
Smith (women's)
Lafayette
Swarthmore
Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>no age restrictions, but you have to meet admissions requirements</p>

<p>Rose Hulman top Engineering school 9 years for US News (college without phd)</p>

<p>harvey mudd is a LA school? i've only heard good things would it's math/science/engineering never LA</p>

<p>and why is cal poly not categorically qualified for that list? i'm sure it's top 69</p>

<p>could harvey mudd's engineering program be compared to that of MIT, stanford, Caltech and cornell?</p>

<p>Harvey Mudd is typically considered in league with the top tier engineering schools such as those mentioned in the previous list. </p>

<p>Calpoly does not offer PhDs so it is placed in a separate list.</p>