<p>What are the best and most prestigious engineering schools?</p>
<p>Rank (not necessarily prestigious rank)</p>
<p>MIT
U of I
Stanford</p>
<p>lol I only know top 3 by heart.</p>
<p>what olleger said plus
Caltech
U of Michigan
Carnegie mellon
Cornell
In canada, U of waterloo has the best of the best reputation in engineering</p>
<p>Depends on what you are looking for. Georgia Tech has a good reputation. Harvey Mudd in California has a good reputation to but they are undergraduate only institution. </p>
<p>So are you looking for research institutions with a lot of grants and name recognition? Looking for institutions with internships and career opportunities? Harvard for example is starting an engineering program. Harvard is prestigious, their engineering program may not be the best.</p>
<p>Prestigious as in if you have an undergrad degree from that college future employers in the field will sit up and take note?</p>
<p>Or prestigious as in generally famous, renowned, and leading to countless bragging rights? They’re similar but not quite the same thing…</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>Best = A good school where you can afford to go without going into debt</p>
<p>Prestigious= a good school where you learned a lot and are proud to graduate from
(and do so without compiling a lot of debt)</p>
<ol>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li> Stanford University</li>
<li> University of California - Berkley</li>
<li> Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li> University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign</li>
<li> Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li> California Institute of Technology</li>
<li> University of Southern California</li>
<li> University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
<li> University of Texas - Austin</li>
<li> Cornell University</li>
<li> Purdue University - West Lafayette</li>
<li> University of California - San Diego</li>
<li> Texas A&M University - College Station</li>
<li> University of California - Los Angeles</li>
<li> University of Wisconsin - Madison</li>
<li> University of Maryland - College Park</li>
<li> Harvard University</li>
<li> Princeton University</li>
<li> University of California - Santa Barbara</li>
<li> Colombia University</li>
<li> NorthWestern University</li>
<li> Pennsylvania State University</li>
<li> University of Minnesota - Twin Cities</li>
<li> John Hopkins University</li>
</ol>
<p>If any of these public ones are in-state for you thats where you should go, If not go to a public one close by, the privates ones are not worth the cost, except MIT.</p>
<p>Berkeley is up there too! Btw, the above list is for grad schools, not undergrad. It has already been proven USC doctored their numbers. Look for them to fall out of the top ten next year. They are not a top 10 undergraduate program either.</p>
<p>If I were an engineering student I’d try my damndest to get into Harvey Mudd College or Rice University (which I’m still trying to get in to =p).</p>
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How about Stanford and Caltech? Aren’t they just as good as MIT?</p>
<p>"the privates ones are not worth the cost, except MIT "</p>
<p>I’m sure the engineering world isn’t all about MIT, the world is BIG my friend
sometimes CCers really can make me lol</p>
<p>By best i mean the best undergraduate education quality in the u.s., no matter their reputation.</p>
<p>By prestige i mean only the undergraduate engineering program’s reputation, a college that future employers in the field will sit up and take note (as greekfire said). I don’t mean the college’s general reputation and renown, so no harvard or generally prestigious school like that with little or no engineering.</p>
<p>Cornell and Princeton</p>
<p>Undergrad vs grad? There are some great undergrad only schools.</p>
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<p>Don’t make me sic my Caltech alum mother on you, Soccer.</p>
<p>PS: depending on your income bracket, the private schools are sometimes less than even instate publics.</p>
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<p>I would change “sometimes” to “oftentimes.”</p>