Engineering
Mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical, aerospace and robotics programs, usually accredited by ABET.
Ranked campuses teaching engineering
| # | Institution | City | Control | Students | Admitted | Tuition | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | Cambridge, MA | private | 4,700 | 4% | $59,500 | 97 |
| 2 | Stanford | Stanford, CA | private | 17,500 | 3.9% | $62,000 | 96 |
| 3 | Princeton | Princeton, NJ | private | 8,500 | 4.6% | $59,000 | 95 |
| 4 | Penn | Philadelphia, PA | private | 28,000 | 5.4% | $61,500 | 93 |
| 5 | Cornell | Ithaca, NY | private | 25,500 | 8% | $62,000 | 92 |
| 6 | UChicago | Chicago, IL | private | 18,500 | 5% | $64,000 | 91 |
| 7 | Columbia | New York, NY | private | 36,000 | 3.9% | $63,000 | 90 |
| 8 | Caltech | Pasadena, CA | private | 2,300 | 3.1% | $61,000 | 89 |
| 9 | Duke | Durham, NC | private | 17,500 | 5.1% | $62,000 | 88 |
| 10 | Hopkins | Baltimore, MD | private | 29,500 | 6% | $63,000 | 87 |
| 11 | Northwestern | Evanston, IL | private | 22,500 | 7% | $62,000 | 86 |
| 12 | Brown | Providence, RI | private | 10,500 | — | $62,000 | 86 |
Doctoral programs in this field
26 indexed campuses award research doctorates here. Funding normally arrives through assistantships tied to faculty grants.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · private · doctorate
Small, intensely technical and heavily funded: engineering, computing and the physical sciences with one of the largest research budgets per student in the country.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA · private · doctorate
Silicon Valley parent institution, combining a large research portfolio with an entrepreneurship culture that feeds straight into the Bay Area economy.
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · private · doctorate
A small Ivy with a heavy mathematics, physics and public-policy core. Doctoral tuition is funded for most PhD candidates, which makes Princeton the top answer to a doctorate in New Jersey.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · private · doctorate
Wharton anchors a research university that mixes business, medicine, law and engineering on one walkable West Philadelphia campus.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY · private · doctorate
A hybrid Ivy: privately governed, with contract colleges for New York residents. Strong in engineering, hospitality, agriculture and computing.
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · private · doctorate
The Chicago school of economics, a rigorous core curriculum and one of the deepest physical-science and law complexes in the Midwest.
Columbia University
New York, NY · private · doctorate
The Manhattan Ivy: journalism, international affairs, law and medicine plugged into the city media and finance pipelines.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA · private · doctorate
A tiny elite institute running physics, astronomy and engineering, with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as its de facto research campus.
Enrolment, tuition and acceptance figures are rounded planning values compiled in 2025/26 for orientation. Verify exact numbers with each university's official fact sheet before you apply.