Engineering Graduate School Rankings

The rankings for engineering schools depend, to some degree, on the engineering field that you're considering. However for many of the more traditional engineering fields the same schools appear repeatedly in the US News and World Report rankings for top graduate engineering schools.

For the best mechanical engineering program, the top aeronautical and aerospace engineering program and the top ten electrical engineering degrees, most lists include MIT, Stanford, the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Michigan The University of Illinois/Urbana, Carnegie Mellon, Caltech and Georgia Tech. Not all schools appear in the top ten for all of these fields, but each is on more than one list.

For the top chemical engineering programs the list changes a little to include Princeton, the University of Minnesota (home state for 3M) and the real sleeper, the University of Delaware (where DuPont has its headquarters). For the best industrial engineering degrees Virginia Tech and Texas A&M are included in the highest echelon

In the agricultural engineering area, several schools from the ag states emerge as academic leaders. Iowa State, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Penn State and the University of Nebraska are all ranked as leading educational institutions. For the best environmental engineering degrees the usual suspects re-emerge: MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Illinois, Texas, and UC Berkeley. The top biomedical engineering options include Johns Hopkins, UC San Diego, and both the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington University in St. Louis.