Top Ranked Technical Colleges

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT is a private research university with 34 different academic departments, though departments related to science and technology are undoubtedly the strongest. The school was founded in 1861 in large part because of the increasing technological demands of the industrial revolution. MIT's annual expenditures on research are some of the highest in the world. Notable alumni include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, economist Paul Krugman, and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  77 Massachusetts Ave
  Cambridge MA 02139
  617-253-2201
  web.mit.edu

University of California, Berkeley

• California's oldest and most esteemed university is a vital center for research and education in the fields of technology, engineering, and science. With 131 members of the National Academy of Science and 87 members of the National Academy of Engineering, Berkeley's faculty is impressive. Berkeley scientists discovered plutonium in 1941 as well as the aptly named elements berkelium and californium.

  University of California, Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-642-6000
  berkeley.edu

Stanford University

• Stanford boasts top programs across all disciplines, and its technology-related departments are certainly no exception. Graduates of Stanford have gone on to found major corporations, like Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Google and Cisco Systems. Stanford's School of Engineering includes departments for computer science, electrical engineering, aeronautics and astronautics. Silicon Valley, one of the world's major center of computer development, grew around the Stanford campus.

  Stanford University
  450 Serra Mall
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-723-2300
  stanford.edu

University of Cambridge

• The University of Cambridge is one of the world's oldest universities and a powerhouse of technological research and education. Many major advances in science, such as the splitting of the atom, discovery of hydrogen and structure of DNA, occurred at Cambridge. The school consists of 31 colleges, with Churchill College being the most heavily geared towards science and technology.

  University of Cambridge
  Old Examination Hall
  Free School Lane, City Centre
  Cambridge CB2 3RS
  United Kingdom
  011-223-333-999
  cam.ac.uk

California Institute of Technology

• Located just outside of Los Angeles in the city of Pasadena, Caltech, as it is commonly known, graduates some of the nation's top talents in technology-related fields. Although Caltech is a comparatively small school with just over 2,000 students and 300 faculty, 31 Caltech faculty and alumni have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science and Technology. The school's humanities and social science departments are ranked considerably lower than its engineering and IT departments.

  California Institute of Technology
  1200 East California Boulevard
  Pasadena, CA 91125
  626-395-6811
  caltech.edu