Best Engineering Schools
Ranked in 2013 | Best Engineering Schools Rankings Methodology
Before you can make your mark as an engineer, you need to find the school that can best help you build your skills. With U.S. News's rankings of the top engineering schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size, and test scores.
| Rank | School name | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment |
Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test)
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Engineering school research expenditures (2011-2012 fiscal year)
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Overall acceptance rate
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Faculty membership in National Academy of Engineering
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Peer assessment score (out of 5)
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Ph.D.s granted
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Recruiter assessment score (out of 5)
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Research expenditures per faculty member
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| #51 |
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH |
$37,120 per year (full-time) | 633 | ||||||||
| #51 |
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI |
$597 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,173 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 858 | ||||||||
| #51 |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick
Piscataway, NJ |
$15,024 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,600 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,004 | ||||||||
| #51 |
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT |
$5,964 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,454 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,073 | ||||||||
| #55 |
Dartmouth College (Thayer)
Hanover, NH |
$43,782 per year (full-time) | 289 | ||||||||
| #55 |
University of Delaware
Newark, DE |
$27,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,240 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 862 | ||||||||
| #57 |
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO |
$13,590 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,620 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,343 | ||||||||
| #57 |
Northeastern University
Boston, MA |
$1,270 per credit (full-time) | 2,295 | ||||||||
| #57 |
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY |
$1,304 per credit (full-time) | 2,114 | ||||||||
| #57 |
University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Amherst, MA |
$2,640 per year (in-state, full-time); $9,937 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 862 | ||||||||
| #61 |
University at Buffalo–SUNY
Buffalo, NY |
$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,324 | ||||||||
| #61 |
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA |
$7,900 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,064 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 418 | ||||||||
| #63 |
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH |
$788 per credit (full-time) | 689 | ||||||||
| #64 |
Stony Brook University–SUNY
Stony Brook, NY |
$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,433 | ||||||||
| #65 |
University of Illinois–Chicago
Chicago, IL |
$12,962 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,960 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,078 | ||||||||
| #65 |
University of Tennessee–Knoxville
Knoxville, TN |
$10,280 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,768 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,000 | ||||||||
| #67 |
Auburn University (Ginn)
Auburn University, AL |
$7,866 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,598 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 851 | ||||||||
| #67 |
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO |
$10,372 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,552 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 660 | ||||||||
| #67 |
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA |
$28,215 per year (full-time) | 1,128 | ||||||||
| #67 |
University of California–Riverside (Bourns)
Riverside, CA |
$14,646 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,102 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 534 | ||||||||
| #67 |
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT |
$10,782 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 774 | ||||||||
| #72 |
Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour)
Chicago, IL |
$1,119 per credit (full-time) | 1,450 | ||||||||
| #72 |
Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer)
Hoboken, NJ |
$28,800 per year (full-time) | 1,728 | ||||||||
| #72 |
Tufts University
Medford, MA |
$26,428 per year (full-time) | 622 | ||||||||
| #72 |
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL |
$357 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,182 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,293 |
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