Engineering School Ranking

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<p>UCSB, UCSD, Cal Poly Pomona, San Diego State, UCI</p>

<p>From the schools above which has the best overall engineering program?</p>

<p>Which has the best specific Mechanical/Aerospace/Electrical Engineering program?</p>

<p>Any info would be great!
Preferably would like replies before May 1st, thanks! :-)</p>

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<p>There was a ranking by engineers I had my hands on once that broke it down by what was done on campus, it didn’t really rank per se, it discussed the programs. I wish I had bookmarked it. US News has some general education stuff, but I really prefer to see discussions by the profession. US News does have a ranking of undergrad programs but you have to pay for it. All the other rankings I know are of grad programs. </p>

<p>I do have the National Research Council rankings, though. These are put out every 15 years, so the 2010 rankings are the current ones. To ‘work’ them, you click on the area, then click on the table heading ‘s rank high’ to get the universities to line up by rank according to scholars in the field. I will tell you that UCSB is phenomenal in those areas, except it doesn’t group its classes into an ‘aerospace’ major. Its materials and mechanical and electrical engineering all send people to aerospace however, and aerospace companies come to the campus. You won’t find ANY of those on your list under the NRC ‘aerospace’ list, as a category. <a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Mechanical Engineering”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124744/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In the NRC rankings, in EE UCSB is #4 in the nation, UCSD is 12, UCI is 53, and I don’t see the others. Regardless, I understand Cal Poly Pomona is well thought of in engineering generally, but UCSB is really really strong in this. In Mechanical E UCSB is number 5, UCSD is number 6, UCI is at 27, San Diego State and UCSD are tied for 36 in the related field of ‘Applied Engineering’; in Materials Engineering UCSB is number 1, UCSD is number 11, UCI is number 25. You happen to have picked an area where UCSB is very very strong. I should let you know I am biased towards UCSB on your list, but I didn’t make up these numbers.</p>

<p>Good luck wherever you end up!</p>