<p>i know the top ones are stanford, MIT, and berkeley.</p>
<p>what do you think about these=
johns hopkins
rice
northwestern
u wisconsin, madison
u washington, seattle</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I'd say Rice and Washington are two really good ones on there. My brother's at Rice for his PhD in chip architecture, and the elec department's been coming up with some really cool research recently. Washington's typically really good for that sort of thing, but I'm not as familiar with their program. Not as familiar with the programs at JHU, NW, or Madtown, and haven't heard anything about their reputations in computer engineering.</p>
<p>I know very little about this field but I can tell you what I've seen for Northwestern's EECS based on what I'd read.</p>
<p>The EECS is ranked in the top-30. The computer engg and electrical engg were separate departments not long ago but they merged into one department about 3-4 years ago. Since then, the department has seemed to be on the rise. The department isn't ranked very high probably because of lower number of faculty being NAE members. But they have been successfully recruiting the best young faculty. Between 2007 and 2008, seven faculty members won NSF CAREER award, the most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. That's a pretty good number for any engineering school, let alone a single department. One good thing about Northwestern is their other engineering departments are strong (all in the top-20) in case you may have an interest to explore other fields or double-major.</p>
<p>Student teams did very well in international competition this year--top-10 (out of 200 teams) in KDD Cup Challenge 2008 (Early Detection of Cancer Using Data Mining) and top-100 (out of over 6000) in ACM ICPC.</p>
<p>If you're looking for more good computer engineering schools, consider the following:
Caltech
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
UCLA
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>michigan! :)</p>
<p>From the stickied thread, here are some that are considered "top"</p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Computer Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
Methodology
1 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
2 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
2 Stanford University (CA)
4 University of California–Berkeley *
5 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign *
6 Georgia Institute of Technology *
7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor *
8 Cornell University (NY)
8 University of Texas–Austin *
10 California Institute of Technology
11 Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)*
12 University of Washington *
13 Princeton University (NJ)
14 Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison *
15 Univ. of California–Los Angeles *
16 Northwestern University (IL)
16 Rice University (TX)
18 Univ. of California–San Diego *
18 Univ. of Southern California
20 Univ. of Maryland–College Park *</p>