<p>Program- Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>Criteria:
1) Academics - Good professors, core curriculum
2) Good/Excellent placements to ME jobs and graduate programs (i.e. Law School)
3) Prestige</p>
<p>Schools:
University of California--Berkeley
Georgia Institute of Technology
Stanford University
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
Purdue University--West Lafayette
Cornell University
University of Texas--Austin
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Southern California
University of California--Los Angeles
Duke University
University of Wisconsin--Madison
University of Minnesota- Twin cities</p>
<p>Please help me rank them in order considering my criteria.</p>
<p>Those are all top schools. Worrying about ranking them for an undergrad education is a waste of time. instead focus on admissions criteria (your stats vs admitted to estimate your chances), cost (after financial aid and/or merit scholarships… and what your parents can pay), location/fit.</p>
<p>What FooMonChew said.</p>
<p>Those are all great schools with excellent-solid ME programs. Stanford would be my first choice, closely followed by either Cal or Michigan. Cornell would be my fourth choice. But you cannot go wrong with any of those programs, and as FooMonChew points out, I would focus on other criteria, such as fit and cost.</p>
<p>Cost- Does not matter. </p>
<p>Fit - 1) Academics - Good professors, core curriculum, Helpful
2) Good/Excellent placements to ME jobs and graduate programs (i.e. Law School)
3) Prestige. </p>
<p>^^ These are my criteria for a good fit and I have no idea which of these school would match this criteria</p>
<p>I don’t think you understand what other posters mean by “fit”. Try to decide whether you would enjoy yourself attending each of these schools by considering factors like the size of the school, location, student body, etc. Surely there are other things you care about apart from academics and prestige.</p>
<p>As Dorian_Mode points out, factors such as location, student body, size etc…all help determine fit. Other things to consider is cost of attendance, athletic tradition and greek life. there are roughly 15 or so amazing Mechanical Engineering programs and an additional 15 or so that are very good. Once you have established what are thoe 30 or so programs, your next step is to narrow your list according to fit.</p>