Top Engineering Universities & Colleges in USA

The majority of the top engineering schools & universities in USA are concentrated in the state of California:

1. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge With more than 20 research centres in its campus, the MIT’s School of Engineering ranks right at the top for most of its engineering programs on offer – aerospace/ aeronautical/ astronautical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, materials engineering, nuclear engineering etc. Established in 1861, MIT is the birthplace of world’s leading & most innovative engineers.
      Hamsa Balakrishnan, associate professor at MIT is developing algorithms to reduce airport congestion. She has been working successfully with the FAA & major US airports to shorten delay and reduce the stress taken by ATCs as well & emissions! Image courtesy: www.facebook.com/MITSchoolofengineering
   2. Stanford University, Stanford, California The best part about studying engineering at Stanford is the proximity to Silicon Valley which is teeming with internships & learning opportunities. It’s ranked #1 for its mechanical & electrical/ electronics/ communications engineering programs and is equally renowned for its aerospace & computer engineering programs. The search engine, Google was founded by two Computer Science graduates at Stanford!

1.                                                     The “engineering quad” campus of Stanford

2. University of California—Berkeley, California
3. California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California
4. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Michigan
6. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
7. University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
8. Purdue University—West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN
9. University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell), Austin, Texas
10. Texas A&M University—College Station (Look), College Station, Texas
11. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
12. University of Southern California (USC) (Viterbi School of Engineering), Los Angeles, California
13. Columbia University (Fu Foundation), New York
14. University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli), Los Angeles, California
15. University of California—San Diego (Jacobs), La Jolla, California
16. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
17. Northwestern University (McCormick), Evanston, Illinois
18. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
19. Johns Hopkins University (Whiting), Baltimore, Maryland
20. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
21. University of California—Santa Barbara, California
22. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
23. University of Maryland—College Park (Clark), College Park, Maryland
24. University of Washington, Seattle, WA