Rank Ivy League Engineering Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'd like to know which Ivy engineering schools are the most selective to least selective, in order. Please base it on statistics only.</p>

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<p>Cornell
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Upenn
Princeton
Brown
Dartmouth</p>

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<p>Are these based on admission rates and not the quality of the programs? I know that Cornell is known to have the best engineering college but I didn’t think it would also be the most selective Ivy for engineering.</p>

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<p>Undergraduate I assume? This is something that you could just easily look up. In any event, you should be much more concerned about the quality of the engineering program than the selectivity.</p>

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<p>^ I agree completely. Selectivity is a completely bogus measure of quality, especially in a field like engineering where you want to be concerned about who has the best faculty, who has the best labs and facilities, and who has the deepest, richest, and broadest curriculum. For engineering in the Ivies, I’d say it’s:</p>

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<li>Cornell
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<p>Cornell’s competitors in engineering aren’t the other Ivies. They’re MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UIUC, Michigan, CMU. The rest of the Ivies are not in the same league for engineering.</p>

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<p>Cornell (by far first) and Princeton are both very good, but why are you hung up on Ivies?</p>

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<p>Selectivity is pretty much the same for the schools overall as it is for the engineering sects. But if you’re looking for quality (you should be), Cornell’s the one to beat.</p>

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<p>Anyone know about Harvard engineering? I heard that students can take classes at MIT.</p>

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<p>I know they don’t actually have give out any actual engineering degrees besides a general engineering degree. It’s like liberal arts… except with engineering.</p>

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<p>Cornell…hands down.</p>

<p>Harvard’s program is pretty good, as well, and yes, I’m pretty sure you can take some MIT classes.</p>

<p>MIT and Duke U’s Pratt School are probably the best, though.</p>

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<p>Duke? </p>

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<p>I lol’ed.</p>

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<p>^duke’s pratt school is engineering is not something to be sneezed at. it may not offer a wide range of options, but its excellent at what it offers.</p>

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<p>I was impressed with Brown’s engineering offerings.
[Division</a> of Engineering Undergraduate Studies](<a href=“http://www.engin.brown.edu/undergrad/index.htm]Division”>http://www.engin.brown.edu/undergrad/index.htm)</p>

<p>Cornell, Princeton and Columbia are fantastic.</p>

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<p>Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Penn
Harvard
Brown
Yale (?)
Dartmouth (?)</p>

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<p>Excuse me, I just sneezed.</p>

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<p>FWIW, Penn has the top-ranked Ivy (top-10 nationally) bioengineering program.</p>

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<p>Cornell is the place to be if you actually want to be an engineer.
Princeton has the second best program.
Columbia, Penn, and Princeton are good if you want a solid engineering background and good research opportunities as an undergrad, but offer better options for doing things outside of engineering once you graduate. You can go into industry too, but if thats your main goal you can save money and go for a scholarship at UIUC.
Dartmouth and Harvard don’t have real engineering degrees.<br>
Do people major in traditional engineering fields at Brown?</p>

<p>@the person who mentioned Duke:

  1. DUke is ACC, not Ivy
  2. Duke doesn’t have the best engineering in the ACC (probalby goes to VA Tech)
  3. Duke engineering is probalby similar to Penn and Columbia. Pretty darn good overall, but there are other schools most Duke people could have gotten into that offer better engineering programs.</p>
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<p>Good? Sure. The best? Excuse while I LOL.</p>

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<p>GT is in the ACC</p>

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<p>Agreed; I have seen some very interesting papers out of Penn mostly dealing with computational neuroscience.</p>

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<p>Forgot about GTech. My bad (considering I have friends who go there). GTech is clearly better than Duke tho.</p>