Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering was founded in 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts. Forty five percent of MIT undergraduate students are enrolled in the School of Engineering. The school consists of eight academic departments including: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Science and Engineering. US News and World Report ranked some of MIT's School of Engineering programs, including chemical engineering and computer science, as first in a list of the best engineering programs in the country.
Northern California's Stanford University School of Engineering boasts top national rankings with the National Research Council and US News and World Report surveys. 4000 students, twenty-five percent of all students enrolled at Stanford University, are enrolled in the School of Engineering. Students and faculty at this Silicon Valley school have made entrepreneurial marks in technological industries. Engineers from Stanford University are credited with founding over 800 companies.
Made up of seven departments, the Cal Tech Division of Engineering and Applied Science has graduated 31 Nobel Prize recipients. The school's close relationship with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory boosts its prestige in the engineering community. US News and World Report consistently ranks this school as one of the top ten engineering schools in the nation. As one of the smaller schools of engineering, this school only enrolled 456 undergraduate and 556 graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year.
This Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania college ranks highly on many university ranking surveys including US News and World Report, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Princeton Review. CIT offers engineering students the opportunity to jointly work toward a BS and an MBA. The school is difficult to get into as students enrolled in this university rank in the top five percent of their high school class.
UC Berkley College of Engineering graduates participated in some of this nation's historical engineering feats including the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge. As of spring 2010, over 4,300 undergraduate and graduate students attended the eight different engineering departments. Since 2005, UC Berkley College of Engineering has ranked in the top three of the best engineering schools according the US News and World Report.