Top Engineering Undergraduate Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was ranked the number one undergraduate engineering school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. In 2010, the department launched a new program for undergrads which is significantly more flexible than the traditional four year bachelor's degree. The school offers eight different engineering degrees ranging from biological to electrical and computer systems engineering. For all MIT undergraduates, a bachelor of science degree entails a core curriculum evenly divided between math and science courses and humanities, arts, and social sciences. Students are also required to complete a four subject communication requisite in order to graduate.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA 02139
  617-253-3400
  mit.edu

Stanford University

• The Stanford University retains 241 total faculty members and approximately 4,000 students. It is located in Palo Alto, California just outside San Francisco. The School of Engineering is divided into nine departments and accounts for about one fourth of the entire university. It grants bachelor's, master's and Ph.D degrees. Stanford's engineering school operates on a yearly budget of approximately $245 million. In 2010 this school was rated second best undergraduate engineering school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-723-2091
  stanford.edu

University of California- Berkeley

• University of California was established in 1868 and has since become one of the premier universities in the United States and worldwide. Times Higher Education Supplement of London named Berkeley the second best engineering and technology university in the world. U.S. News & World Report rated this school third for undergraduate engineering programs. The faculty contains 228 members, seven of which are Nobel prize laureates. The Engineering College's website claims that for the 2006-07 academic year, career counsellors organized more than 9000 job interviews for its graduates with over 350 different companies, and that 1400 firms participate in on-campus job fairs annually.

  University of California-Berkeley
  110 Sproul Hall
  Berkeley, CA 94720-5800
  510-642-3175
  berkeley.edu