<p>Purdue is a top ten school for engineering. The others are not. WPI? Not even close.</p>
<p>USNews Undergraduate General Engineering Rankings for Schools offering a PhD:</p>
<p>Rank, School, Peer Assessment Score
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.9
2 Stanford University Stanford, CA 4.7
2University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 4.7
4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4.6
5 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 4.5
5 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 4.5
7 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 4.3
7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 4.3
9 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 4.2
9 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 4.2
9 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX 4.2
12 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.0
12 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 4.0
14 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 3.9
14 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 3.9
14 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 3.9
17 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA 3.8
17 Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX 3.8
19 Rice University Houston, TX 3.7
19 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 3.7
19 University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA 3.7
19 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 3.7
23 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 3.6
23 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD 3.6
23 University of Washington Seattle, WA 3.6
26 Columbia University New York, NY 3.5
26 Duke University Durham, NC 3.5
26 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.5
26 North Carolina State University–Raleigh Raleigh, NC 3.5
26 Ohio State University–Columbus Columbus, OH 3.5
26 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 3.5
26 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 3.5
26 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 3.5
34 University of California–Davis Davis, CA 3.4
34 University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 3.4
34 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO 3.4
37 Brown University Providence, RI 3.3
37 Iowa State University Ames, IA 3.3
37 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 3.3
40 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 3.2
41 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 3.2
41 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 3.2
41 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 3.2
41 Yale University New Haven, CT 3.2
45 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 3.1
45 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 3.1
45 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 3.1
45 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 3.1
45 University of California–Irvine Irvine, CA 3.1
45 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 3.1
51 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 3.0
51 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 3.0
51 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 3.0
51 University of Delaware Newark, DE 3.0
51 University of Massachusetts–Amherst Amherst, MA 3.0
51 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 3.0
57 Boston University Boston, MA 2.9
57 Clemson University Clemson, SC 2.9
57 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 2.9
57 Northeastern University Boston, MA 2.9
57 Tufts University Medford, MA 2.9
57 University of Illinois–Chicago Chicago, IL 2.9
57 University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 2.9
64 Auburn University Auburn University, AL 2.8
64 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 2.8
64 Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 2.8
64 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 2.8
64 Polytechnic Institute of New York University Brooklyn, NY 2.8
64 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 2.8
64 SUNY–Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 2.8
64 University at Buffalo–SUNY Buffalo, NY 2.8
64 University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 2.8
64 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 2.8
64 Washington State University Pullman, WA 2.8
64 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 2.8 </p>
<p>For civil engineering:</p>
<p>USNews Undergraduate Engineering Specialty Rankings for Schools offering a PhD:</p>
<p>Undergraduate Engineering Specialties: Civil</p>
<p>1 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
3 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
4 University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
5 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN
7 Stanford University Stanford, CA
8 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
9 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
10 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
11 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
12 Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX
13 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI
14 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
15 North Carolina State University–Raleigh Raleigh, NC
16 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
17 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
18 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
18 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
20 Clemson University Clemson, SC
20 Iowa State University Ames, IA</p>
<p>“All four of those schools are good and have advantages. I think that WPI is the best ranked of them. In the past it has been in the top fifty list for private universities. But really, you can hardly go wrong with this list.”</p>
<p>Gee no NEU or WPI anywhere to be found here in civil engineering. I know you New Englander’s love your schools, but not every college up there is among the very best.</p>