Best Engineering Schools

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)	Engineering school research expenditures (2011-2012 fiscal year)
#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	$41,770 per year (full-time)	3,163	Locked	Locked
#2	Stanford University Stanford, CA	$43,950 per year (full-time)	3,548	Locked	Locked
#3	University of California–​Berkeley Berkeley, CA	$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,837	Locked	Locked
#4	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	$38,084 per year (full-time)	587	Locked	Locked
#5	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	$38,900 per year (full-time)	2,857	Locked	Locked
#5	Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	$10,584 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,860 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	4,651	Locked	Locked
#5	University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign Urbana, IL	$16,352 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,618 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	2,975	Locked	Locked
#8	Purdue University–​West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN	$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	3,070	Locked	Locked
#9	University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	$22,518 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	3,184	Locked	Locked
#9	University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA	$28,242 per year (full-time)	4,398	Locked	Locked
#11	Texas A&M University–​College Station (Look) College Station, TX	$277 per credit (in-state, full-time); $577 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	2,918	Locked	Locked
#11	University of Texas–​Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX	$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	2,425	Locked	Locked
#13	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	$29,500 per year (full-time)	1,768	Locked	Locked
#14	University of California–​San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA	$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,614	Locked	Locked
#15	Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY	$47,340 per year (full-time)	2,525	Locked	Locked
#16	University of California–​Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA	$12,562 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,664 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,776	Locked	Locked
#17	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	$38,650 per year (full-time)	574	Locked	Locked
#18	University of Wisconsin–​Madison Madison, WI	$11,839 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,166 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,903	Locked	Locked
#19	University of Maryland–​College Park (Clark) College Park, MD	$11,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,760 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	2,254	Locked	Locked
#20	Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL	$43,380 per year (full-time)	1,669	Locked	Locked
#20	University of California–​Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	$12,192 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,294 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	760	Locked	Locked
#22	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	$27,700 per year (full-time)	1,704	Locked	Locked
#23	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	$37,576 per year (full-time)	404	Locked	Locked
#24	Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA	$10,677 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,926 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	2,278	Locked	Locked
#25	Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD	$43,930 per year (full-time)	3,434