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<p>Can you please help me rank these colleges/universities according to the strength of their mechanical engineering program?</p>

<p>MIT
Caltech
Princeton
Stanford
UPenn
Cornell
Columbia U: Fu Foundation SEAS
UMich Ann Arbor
Washington University in St. Louis
Rensselaer Institute of Technology
Lafayette
Northwestern
Illinois Institute of Technology
Brown
Rice
UT Austin</p>

<p>Thanks...:)</p>

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<p>bump...</p>

<p>someone??? please...</p>

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<p>MIT
Michigan Ann Arbor
Stanford
Caltech
Cornell
Lafayette
UT Austin
Princeton
Northwestern
Rensselaer</p>

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<p>Is UMich Ann Arbor really that good??</p>

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<p>MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Cornell
Princeton
U Mich</p>

<p>don't know about the others.</p>

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<p>Ya the above poster is correct.</p>

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<p>Yeah, no way is Michigan #2 on that list. Even Alexandre will admit that haha!</p>

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<p>thanks. but what about Upenn, lafayette, UT austin, northwestern and umich then?</p>

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<p>i just listed it the way US News does it...</p>

<p>I figured their methodology is better than any arbitrary list that i make up</p>

<p>those other schools you mentioned weren't on the list, which is why i didn't include them</p>

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<p>Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech
Caltech</p>

<p>thats all i have to say:)</p>

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<p>The top program in Mechanical Engineering (undergraduate) are:</p>

<p>MIT</p>

<p>Cal
CalTech
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Stanford</p>

<p>Cornell
Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Princeton</p>

<p>Northwestern
Purdue
Texas-Austin</p>

<p>Yeah, Michigan is that good. Slipstream's rankings above are not her/his own but the USNWR's undergraduate rankings of Mechanical Engineering programs. </p>

<p>And Slipper, I would not agree that Michigan is too high at #2 in Mechanical Engineering. Overall, I would agree that Michigan is not #2 (closer to #10 or #15). But in Engineering, it is certainly top 5 or 6 and in Mechanical Engineering, it is arguably #1 and defnitely top 4 or 5.</p>

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<p>Alexandre, are there any schools better than Umich? :)</p>

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<p>Sure, in terms of overall academics, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale are better. No other university is better than Michigan in terms of overall academics. </p>

<p>But Aaron was asking about the top Mechanical Engineering programs, not the best academic institutions. In Mechanical Engineering, the only program that is consistantly considered better than Michigan is MIT. Cal and Stanford are sometimes ranked higher, and Caltech is usually up there too. But that's it.</p>

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<p>My brother is a mechanical engineering major with one year left, he says that it is definitely near the top and says when he interviewed for an internship at Honeywell they said they only accept applicants from MIT, UMICH, and CalTech, so I guess if you are judging quality of engineering by its ability to get you a job, those would be the top 3.</p>

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<p>I forgot to say he goes to U of Michigan</p>

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<p>my brother loves lafayette. it's really really good if you are going to be an engineer.</p>

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<p>Thanks people
especially alexandre ;)
UMich seems to have a better reputation that I thought!</p>

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<p>In academic circles, schools like Michigan And Berkeley are EASILY considered in the top 10 institutions in the world... only here on CC which is swamped with bright, ambitious (yet ignorant) high-school students obssesed with "prestige" do such state universities seem subpar. I'm amazed by how many people on here get personally offended when those of us in the know mention Michigan and Berkeley in the same sentence as HYPSM.</p>

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<p>You are absolutely right save for one notion: undergrad excellence. Undergrad is where the discussion mainly stems from and in that area Berkeley and Umich just are not quite up to par with the schools listed as the top 10 on Usnews. Aggregately, those schools (Umich, UCB, and, to a lesser extent, NYU) are almost without equal.</p>

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<p>Devil,</p>

<p>I think the differences in undergrad are overplayed... I graduated from both Harvard and Berkeley... I saw very little substantive difference in the undergrad education. They are both high-powered research oriented institutions with cadres of grad students.
Motivated students at both schools can get involved in research and get individual attention... key is: SELF-motivation.</p>

<p>There is a MUCH bigger difference between Harvard and Amherst than there between Harvard & Berkeley in terms of the kind of education.</p>