What are the best engineering schools in the Midwest?
RHIT.
RHIT
Here are seven Midwestern schools with outstanding Engineering programs:
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Northwestern
Purdue
Rose Hulman
Wisconsin
Best for you depends on what your criteria are.
If you consider Western Pennsylvania Midwestern, which I do, then you have a very high concentration of excellent engineering schools:
Carnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Purdue University-West Lafayette
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is excellent in Chemical Engineering.
Rose Hulman is also excellent, but it is more of a niche/speciality school, which I do not recommend unless you are 100% certain you will be majoring in Engineering.
Case Western has a good program as well. Agree with the others already on the list.
Add WashU-St.L. and Notre Dame?
Depending on what you consider “midwestern”, maybe add the University of Colorado (Boulder) and Colorado Mines as well.
Western Pennsylvania is not midwestern, neither is Colorado.
Northwestern Engineering is strong. Iowa State is excellent for engineering and mathematics. Look for programs that offer strong math, all the larger public programs are powerhouse. UIUC has the same EECS curriculum as MIT with big ten football. Purdue is just outstanding and also helps freshman acclimate and offers data science degree, which is up and coming.
Rose has a very nice campus, some people find the location to be very small, Terre Haute, but the lake and matching brick campus is lovely.
Both U of Minnesota and Madison are good prices for some midwesterners. Minnesota is jacking up the out of state price lately but used to be a bargain. Madison has very strong computer science.