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I note that Princeton still trails Cornell within the Ivies..</p>
<p>In the overall ranking of engineering programs, Princeton ranks 18th and the relatively tiny Harvard program ranks 21st. The likewise small Yale program ranks 39th.
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<p>Screw overall engineering; what's important are individual departments and the quality they offer. Princeton has a very good chemical engineering program, which if one bothers with the rankings, is 7th at the moment (I'm talking graduate, which I agree with you define a program far more than undergraduate). How many of you are even engineers to begin with?</p>
<p>Undergraduate rankings are almost irrelevent; a company (and graduate school) is going to care far more about what you did in college than whether your school is ranked 11th or 10th (overall perception of the prestige of the school also comes into play, but not nearly as much as you might think). The entire point of ABET accredidation is to ensure that every engineer covers the same essential material. Finding a heat transfer coefficient is the same whether you go to MIT or IPFW.</p>