Where is the best engineering school?

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Answer 1

Oh please, its M.I.T.

Answer 2

Purdue University man, Boiler UP!

Purdue will give you an amazing education, and will also allow you to still experience college life as its supposed to be (as long as you know how to budget your time right). I recently graduated from aerospace engineering at Purdue, and I have to tell you, you'd be hard pressed to find a better education or a better place to live.

Of course, Cal Tech and MIT are amazing colleges as well, however, you can get just as far, if not farther, with a degree from Purdue. Engineers that graduate from Purdue are very balanced. They have both analytical and problem solving abilities as well as having great interpersonal skills. It used to be that all that was important for an engineer is to be great at the maths and sciences. Interpersonal skills are now just as important as those attributes. And that is something you get at Purdue, but not as much at other "better" colleges.

Something you'll find about the graduates of the MIT's and Cal Tech's of the world, is that they are chosen for the lab and R&D jobs. These are great if that fits your personality. But for the most part the R&D engineers don't get much farther along than R&D. If you want to branch into project management, administration, or become a chief engineer... these things require a lot of personality and teamworking skills.

Purdue constantly ranks in the top 5 engineering schools in the country, and trust me, I had friends at both MIT and Cal Tech... you'll have a hell of a lot more fun there.

Answer 3

Top engineering schools canada:
University Of WATERLOO, Ontario www.uwaterloo.ca
University Of TORONTO, Ontario www.utoronto.ca
MCGILL University, MONTREAL, QUEBEC
SIMON FRASER University, BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA
CARLETON University, OTTAWA, Ontario
Universite DE MONTREAL, QUEBEC
QUEENS University, KINGSTON, Ontario
University Of BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
CONCORDIA University, MONTREAL, QUEBEC
University Of ALBERTA, EDMONTON, ALBERTA
University Of VICTORIA, B.C.
University Of CALGARY, ALBERTA
University Of SASKATCHEWAN, SASKATOON
YORK University
University Of WESTERN Ontario
MCMASTER University
UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE MONTREAL
University Of WINDSOR
link to page with links for all schools above:
http://www.graduateshotline.com/enggcan.html

I went to Waterloo and it is a good school if you know what you want to do. Some of the teaching is downright horrible, so know what you're there for. The co-op program is good, but generates competition between classmates. IMO there are better schools to go to if you want to pursue graduate studies, notably Toronto and McGill. Queen's and Western are good party schools. Toronto has a program called Engineering Science that is top rate and would rank with other top engineering schools in the world.

Top engineering schools US are listed below. Definitely MIT is #1. US schools are better for graduate studies because there is more money available.
Top Engineering Colleges
Ranking by graduateshotline.com 2006
S.NoUniversity/College
1 Massachusetts Inst of Technology
2 Stanford University
3University of California-Berkeley
4California Institute Technology
5University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6 Georgia Institute of Technology
7 University of Michigan
8Cornell University
9Carnegie Mellon University
10University of Texas at Austin
11Purdue University
12 University of California- San Diego
13University of California- Los Angeles
14Texas A&M University
15Princeton University
16Pennsylvania State University
17University of Wisconsin-Madison
18University of Maryland College Park
19Harvard University
20University of California-Santa Barbara
21 University of Southern California
22University of Minnesota
23Northwestern University
24Johns Hopkins University
25Virginia Polytech Inst & State University
26Ohio State University
27 University of Virginia
28Columbia University (FU)
29University of Pennsylvania
30 Duke University
31Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
32 North Carolina State University
33Rice University
34University of Washington
35University of Florida
36University of California-Davis
37Washington University -St. Louis
38Yale University
39University of Massachusetts at Amherst
40Michigan State University
41Iowa State University
42University of Arizona
43 University of California-Irvine
44 University of Colorado-Boulder
45 Case Western Reserve University
46Rutgers State University-New Brunswick
47University of Notre Dame
48Lehigh university
49 Northeastern University
50University of Rochester
51University of Delaware
52 University of Iowa
53Brown University
54Arizona State University
55 Drexel University

MIT is extremely difficult to get in, and is generally regarded as very rigorous once you get in. You should be able to google the above names to get the websites.

Answer 4

Purdue University

Answer 5

If you want a top-notch engineering eduction from a smaller school with a friendly environment then you can't beat Clarkson University in upstate NY. Let's go tech!!!

www.clarkson.edu

By the way, MIT undergrad is not all that it is cracked up to be... just my 2 cents.

Answer 6

University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario (about 1.25 hrs from Toronto), Canada. They invented the 'co-op' program where you study one semester and intern in a real engineerning job the next. You end up leaving the program with 2 yrs real world experience, and 2 or 3 companies who already know you so its easy to get a job.

Answer 7

Ok, I have to throw in my 2 cents.....

If you already have a pretty good idea of what you want to do in engineering, then yes CalTech or MIT (assuming that you can get in).

If you aren't really sure, esp. if you aren't really sure that you even want to do engineering for the rest of your lives on this planet, then I would also consider....

Harvey Mudd College

(Look it up. It's a real college!)

Answer 8

School ratings are overrated. It all comes down to how hard you are willing to work.

I sit on hiring interview panels. The school that the person went to has nothing to do with how well they do in the interview.

Answer 9

I vote for the Naval Academy. Nuclear reactor, wave pool, wind tunnel...all on 'campus'.

Answer 10

MIT and Cal Tech

Answer 11

No question. Caltech and M.I.T.

website of MIT: http://web.mit.edu/
website of Caltech: http://www.caltech.edu/