Can you name the finest (top) engineering/technological institutes in your country.?

Question

I am from India. And India boasts of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT's) as the finest and best in the world.

The Americans are proud of Massachusetts's Institute of Technology (MIT).

If you are from some different country, please name top tech schools in your nation.

I am looking forward for searching top Technological institutes across the globe.

I am anticipating more answers from Americans. Please name top engineering/tech universities in your nation.

Is it worth doing engineering from Oxford. I know Oxford is one of finest universities but is it worth for engineering?

Thank you for your comments.

Answer 1

As a civil engineer in the Nebraska, USA, I would recommend you narrow your search to the field of engineering. There are dozens, if not hundreds. When I was looking at schools 8 years ago (2000 High school graduate) the top 5 schools looked like this.

1. MIT
2. Cal Polytechnic
3. Washington University-St. Louis
4. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
5. Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute)

These are fine if you are looking at the following Fields of employment respectively:

1. Computers, Robotics, Mechanical
2. Don't know, never looked at it seriously
3. Mechanical
4. Automotive, Anything Automotive related
5. Mechanical, Automotive

I was interested in Civil Engineering, one of the best Civil programs was at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I chose to go to school. Last year I believe they brought in over $1 million (U.S.) in research grants for the first time. For a Civil program this is amazing. They are also on the leading edge in bio-engineering. It has good mechanical, electrical and chemical programs as well, but does not offer aeronautical.

Another fine Civil school is Texas A&M. Define the feild you are looking at going into, some schools don't offer some feilds, others offer a lot of fields but only excel at one or two.

Good luck where ever you go.

Answer 2

There is not 1 or 2 or 10 best Engineering Colleges in the United States. Sorry, Engineering is too broad of a field for that, you would have to narrow the field down to a specialty and even then, you would have discussion. For example, MIT is an excellent college, but, if you wanted to study Naval Architecture, University of Michigan or Webb Institute are superior. Let's say you want to work in the Petroleum field, you could hardly do better than the Colorado School of Mines. It's not possible to say one school is better than all the rest in a field as broad as Engineering. There are schools that specialize in areas of Engineering that have advantages over other schools that try to generalize, but in any case, what did you take away from the degree? Just a diploma? It's not always the school that's important.

Answer 3

It is not the College but what u learned. I went to a junior college for 2 years . I was strong in radio communications and got a chance to go to work for NASA . As far as they were concerned I had what they wanted . I went to work and 10 years later was transferred to Washington D.C. to Goddard space center. I become a network trouble shooter and traveled to most of there stations to fix problems that there Eng. could not fix. Great Life and paid well.