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Top US Engineering Schools 2008

June 24, 2008 – 1:53 am by Nick

The US News 2008 ranking of the best graduate engineering schools presented few surprises this year. MIT remains the top engineering school in the nation. The 198 schools were ranked by using surveys, statistics, and peer grading. They calculate the overall score of each college by adding up grades for quality assessment, peer assessment, recruiter assessment, student selectivity, mean GRE quantitative scores, acceptance rate, faculty resources, student to faculty ratio, percent of faculty who are members of the National Academy of Engineering, doctoral degrees awarded, total research expenditures, research activity, and average research expenditures per faculty member.

Remember to use the CollegeFinder “college comparison” feature to determine the graduate program that best meets your needs. Here are the 2008 Engineering School rankings:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA // Score 100
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA // Score 98
3. University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA // Score 89
4. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA // Score 86
5. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL // Score 83
6. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA // Score 81
7. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA // Score 79
8. University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA // Score 77
9. Cornell University Ithaca, NY // Score 75
10. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI // Score 75
11. University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA // Score 72
12. University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX // Score 72
13. Texas A&M University-College Station (Look) College Station, TX // Score 69
14. University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA // Score 69
15. Purdue University-West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN // Score 68
16. University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI // Score 68
17. University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD // Score 66
18. Princeton University Princeton, NJ // Score 65
19. University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA // Score 64
20. Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL // Score 63
21. Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY // Score 62
22. Harvard University Cambridge, MA // Score 60
23. Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA // Score 58
24. University of Florida Gainesville, FL // Score 57
25. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN // Score 57
26. University of Washington Seattle, WA // Score 57
27. Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD // Score 56
28. Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA // Score 55
29. Ohio State University Columbus, OH // Score 54
30. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC // Score 53
31. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA // Score 53
32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY // Score 52
33. University of California-Davis Davis, CA // Score 52
34. University of Rochester Rochester, NY // Score 52
35. Duke University Durham, NC // Score 51
36. Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX // Score 51
37. University of California-Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA // Score 50
38. University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA // Score 48
39. University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, CO // Score 46
40. Yale University New Haven, CT // Score 46
41. Iowa State University Ames, IA // Score 45
42. Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA // Score 44
43. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN // Score 44
44. Boston University Boston, MA // Score 43
45. Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ // Score 42
46. University of Delaware Newark, DE // Score 41
47. Washington University in St. Louis (Sever) St. Louis, MO // Score 41
48. University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA // Score 40
49. Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH // Score 39
50. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA // Score 39