Best schools for applied physics/ engineering physics?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Just a short question. Does anybody know the best schools for applied physics or engineering physics? The only two I can think of are Caltech and Cornell. I want to major in this field but I'm having a hard time in finding schools that are strong in it.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/%7Ejnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>No place can beat MIT for these fields. Princeton is also pretty good. Cornell used to be strong in this area, but I am hearing that it has slipped. I want to major either in engineering physics or EE.</p>

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<p>ECE = Carnegie Mellon U.
Not shady for engineering/physics either; to say the least.</p>

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<p>How about Purdue</p>

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<p>Good; step below MIT/CMU/Stanford/Cornell/Caltech</p>

<p>You do need some match/safeties so Purdue and Penn State would be nice.</p>

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<p>Illinois, Rochester and Michigan are great matches for physics.</p>

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<p>US News
Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Engineering Science/Engineering Physics
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate) </p>

<ol>
<li>Cornell University (NY)<br></li>
<li>California Institute of Technology<br>
University of California–Berkeley *<br></li>
<li>U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *<br></li>
<li>Massachusetts Inst. of Technology<br></li>
<li>University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *<br></li>
<li>Princeton University (NJ)<br>
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *<br></li>
<li>Harvard University (MA)</li>
</ol>

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<p>MIT has engineering physics as a major? I checked their site but I could not find it.</p>

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<p>Oh, and I live in California, so i don't think out of state public would be a good idea.</p>

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<p>Gourman Report rankings for Engineering Physics</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton 4.82</li>
<li>Cornell 4.77</li>
<li>Kansas 4.53</li>
<li>Oklahoma 4.49</li>
<li>Colorado (Mines) 4.44</li>
<li>Texas Tech 4.33</li>
<li>Stevens (New Jersey) 4.27</li>
<li>Tulsa 4.23</li>
</ol>

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<p>Engineering Physics is the typical name for undergrad departments, Applied Physics at the graduate level.</p>

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<p>Right you are.</p>

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<p>Oh, I see. I was confused about that.</p>

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<p>
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Engineering Physics is the typical name for undergrad departments, Applied Physics at the graduate level.

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Varies from school to school. e.g. at Caltech it's called Applied Physics for both undergrad and grad.</p>