Given that the US News Engineering rankings are based solely on polls (and the last election taught us just how reliable polls are), I decided to take the list provided by @liska21 in amother CC post and divide it by the number of engineering graduates per school (from College Navigator) for all private schools with at least 100 engineering graduates per year. (I probably missed a few) For this particular listing, I did not include the Bio-based Engineering fields because they tended to skew the results for a few schools with large programs in that area. I have the results including the Bio-based fields, that I can post later.
I included the number of awards as well as the number of grads per year to provide additional context. I also added the average percentage of financial need met by each school (from USNews Data)…
Here is the source for the NSF fellowship data:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1881324-table-of-colleges-and-university-that-produce-awardees-of-nsf-graduate-fellowships-p2.html
School…# NSF awards #of Eng grads…Ratio…% Need Met
1.Princeton…29…117…0.25…100
2.MIT…96…431…0.22…100
3.Rice…28…178…0.16…100
4.Stanford…42…323…0.13…100
5.Case Western…20…192…0.10…84
5.Johns Hopkins…22…213…0.10…100
5.U of Tulsa…16…158…0.10…82
5.Tufts…14…140…0.10…100
5.Duke…17…174…0.10…100
10.Penn…19…206…0.09…100
11.Vanderbilt…17…208…0.08…100
11.Columbia…25…308…0.08…100
13.Wash U…17…236…0.07…100
13.Lafayette…10…144…0.07…100
13.Cornell…45…662…0.07…100
16.Notre Dame…18…280…0.06…100
16.Baylor…7…110…0.06…65
16.Northwestern…18…306…0.06…100
16.BrighamYoung…28…489…0.06…34
20.CarnegieMellon 20…377…0.05…82
20.Cooper Union…5…102…0.05…86
20.U Rochester…7…143…0.05…95
23.Clarkson…14…373…0.04…90
23.Bucknell…5…134…0.04…91
23.RPI…20…567…0.04…79
26.U Miami…7…202…0.03…84
26.Drexel…20…592…0.03…68
26.USC…12…406…0.03…100
29.Rose Hulman…8…344…0.02…73
29.Northeastern…12…519…0.02…85
29.Syracuse…7…303…0.02…91
29.Boston Univ…4…186…0.02…88
30.NJIT…6…467…0.01…53
30.WPI…6…644…0.01…83
31.Lehigh …1…357…0.00…97
Interesting to see Tulsa so high, and CMU so low by comparison.
I don’t see big public universities UCB, UCLA, UCSD,…
I see. Only for private colleges. Your title should say so.
Also, I wonder why Caltech disappears. It is above Stanford on post #28 of the other thread.
NJIT is a public school, no?
@chansu99 - Good catch, my mistake.
I checked the other technical institutes and IIT is private, so it should be added.
I changed the title so that it reflects private schools. I wondered at first why UT-Austin wasn’t anywhere on the list!
@coolweather- the initial motivation for the list was to help out a poster who had been rejected from UPenn Engineering and was looking for similar schools where “similar” was defined as schools that offered access to research
and aid for someone with a sibling in college.
Caltech has only 67 non-bio engineering graduates/year, so it falls under the 100 threshold. I was thinking of having a separate list of schools with programs under 100 because “crossovers” from science, general engineering and engineering science degrees can bias the numbers as well as the effects of small numbers in general. For context, Caltech has 51 physical science grads per year and UPenn (which is 12 times Caltech’s size) has 55.
Caltech, Olin (which has engineering 81 grads per year) and Harvey Mudd (which has 55 engineering grads per year) would be at the top of this list. Some liberal arts colleges and Ivy League schools with small engineering programs may also do well.
Publics tend to have broader array of engineering programs - some of which don’t align with the areas that research fellowships are awarded, and they are impacted by the effects of large numbers. They probably need to be treated separately to prevent apples to oranges comparisons.
I did a quick check and Berkley appeared to be the highest public and it was tied with Penn for #10.
This list generally makes a lot of sense for undergrad engineering research. It seems to push down strong schools where students tend to be more applied, which it should for this purpose. Great job @Mastadon! I love it.
According to the Illinois Tech documentation, the number of B.S. degrees conferred in Engineering (including Civil, Architectural, Mechanical, Materials, Aerospace, Chemical, Electrical, and Computer Engineering) is
2013 246
2014 287
2015 262
2016 328
Avg 281
The number of NSF Graduate Fellowships over the period in the link for the OP is 6 and so the ratio is 0.02.