America s Best Graduate Schools 2008: Top Eng...

Americas Best Graduate Schools 2008: Top Engineering Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 100 4.9 4.8 779 22.2% 4.2 12.7% $234.5 $644.3 288 2,662

Stanford University (CA)
2 99 4.8 4.7 781 31.2% 7.3 16.9% $152.4 $725.8 247 3,243

University of California-Berkeley
3 87 4.8 4.5 771 18.4% 5.5 16.9% $119.8 $493.0 206 1,639

Georgia Institute of Technology
4 83 4.4 4.3 763 34.9% 4.2 5.0% $203.7 $423.4 315 3,925

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
5 82 4.5 4.3 772 27.3% 4.1 3.5% $200.1 $483.4 240 2,472

Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
6 80 4.2 4.2 775 22.3% 4.5 10.1% $159.0 $760.6 142 1,634

California Institute of Technology
7 79 4.6 4.6 790 9.8% 5.7 10.5% $80.9 $817.2 71 601

University of Southern California (Viterbi)
7 79 3.5 3.7 754 48.8% 5.6 15.7% $169.8 $999.0 151 3,805

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
9 76 4.4 4.2 772 40.0% 4.1 3.8% $145.7 $484.2 218 2,450

Cornell University (NY)
10 75 4.3 4.2 785 24.3% 4.2 9.9% $118.7 $608.7 122 1,295

University of Texas-Austin
11 74 4.2 4.1 763 29.7% 3.6 8.8% $124.1 $516.9 191 2,125

Purdue University-West Lafayette (IN)
12 73 4.1 4.1 757 30.4% 3.8 3.6% $121.8 $364.8 209 2,255

University of California-San Diego (Jacobs)
13 72 3.7 3.9 765 22.0% 4.9 10.1% $138.6 $845.0 106 1,195

Texas A&M University-College Station (Look)
14 68 3.7 3.7 751 37.9% 2.9 3.7% $196.1 $692.8 153 2,265

University of Wisconsin-Madison
14 68 4.1 4.0 776 22.8% 3.7 4.1% $121.4 $549.2 114 1,515

University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli)
16 67 3.7 3.7 764 35.8% 5.3 11.8% $89.2 $598.7 142 1,295

University of Maryland-College Park (Clark)
16 67 3.6 3.6 758 24.5% 4.2 6.1% $151.6 $665.1 165 1,878

Princeton University (NJ)
18 65 4.1 4.1 784 17.7% 3.9 11.5% $52.1 $410.5 81 500

Columbia University (Fu Foundation) (NY)
19 62 3.6 3.7 773 29.4% 4.1 10.2% $84.4 $634.5 84 1,394

University of California-Santa Barbara
19 62 3.4 3.5 776 24.9% 4.3 17.2% $81.1 $610.1 107 674

Northwestern University (McCormick) (IL)
21 61 3.9 3.8 770 27.6% 3.7 5.0% $89.2 $506.9 119 1,121

Pennsylvania State University-University Park
21 61 3.8 3.8 755 34.8% 3.3 2.8% $118.1 $329.8 191 1,628

Harvard University (MA)
23 57 3.5 3.7 740 12.8% 5.2 13.6% $35.2 $596.6 29 345

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
23 57 3.7 3.8 771 36.3% 3.6 5.7% $71.7 $349.6 143 1,620

University of Washington
23 57 3.7 3.6 736 34.3% 4.0 5.7% $91.6 $497.8 107 1,440

Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) (MD)
26 56 3.9 3.9 759 20.4% 4.1 3.0% $54.3 $408.6 66 2,604

Ohio State University
26 56 3.6 3.6 758 27.8% 2.8 2.4% $108.4 $438.8 136 1,211

University of Florida
26 56 3.5 3.4 757 43.3% 4.4 2.4% $107.8 $387.6 181 2,224

University of Pennsylvania
29 55 3.5 3.8 760 32.3% 4.1 7.2% $54.5 $550.1 48 1,073

Duke University (NC)
30 53 3.6 3.8 764 28.9% 3.6 1.8% $59.8 $548.4 53 574

Rice University (Brown) (TX)
30 53 3.7 3.8 760 15.3% 4.4 6.6% $33.2 $322.3 73 513

University of Rochester (NY)
30 53 2.7 3.0 767 19.6% 3.6 3.6% $102.1 $1,244.8 27 430

Virginia Tech
33 52 3.6 3.7 768 27.8% 2.6 2.3% $89.5 $267.2 147 1,891

North Carolina State University
34 51 3.3 3.4 756 23.2% 2.8 3.6% $103.0 $360.2 119 1,903

University of California-Davis
34 51 3.4 3.7 749 34.3% 4.1 4.9% $61.7 $342.5 80 1,133

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
36 50 3.5 3.9 755 33.3% 3.3 5.0% $51.9 $314.6 101 1,054

University of California-Irvine (Samueli)
37 48 3.1 3.5 755 25.7% 4.1 5.8% $66.1 $434.7 89 915

University of Virginia
37 48 3.3 3.4 753 20.8% 3.2 7.2% $54.2 $410.4 51 720

Yale University (CT)
37 48 3.3 3.7 778 17.5% 2.8 10.4% $25.3 $346.9 31 232

University of Colorado-Boulder
40 47 3.3 3.3 761 61.1% 3.2 5.8% $56.7 $365.7 76 1,493

Boston University
41 45 2.9 3.2 763 26.6% 3.7 5.0% $59.6 $500.6 64 664

Lehigh University (Rossin) (PA)
42 44 3.1 3.5 765 23.1% 2.9 8.7% $31.5 $262.6 38 562

Vanderbilt University (TN)
42 44 3.2 3.4 757 15.0% 3.9 1.2% $43.4 $510.6 40 416

Washington University in St. Louis (Sever)
42 44 3.2 3.6 760 25.5% 3.3 1.1% $18.2 $207.1 44 820

Case Western Reserve University (OH)
45 43 3.3 3.4 766 28.0% 2.4 2.6% $37.1 $316.8 70 627

Iowa State University
45 43 3.2 3.4 766 22.4% 2.3 0.5% $65.5 $313.3 78 860

Dartmouth College (Thayer) (NH)
47 42 3.0 3.6 778 14.5% 2.1 2.3% $20.6 $491.6 14 182

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
47 42 3.0 3.2 730 25.6% 1.9 4.2% $77.9 $381.7 66 865

University of Delaware
47 42 2.9 3.5 745 25.6% 3.8 3.4% $39.3 $348.1 69 668

Arizona State University (Fulton)
50 41 3.1 3.2 759 44.1% 3.0 3.1% $50.2 $264.0 100 1,603

University of Pittsburgh
50 41 2.9 3.3 776 34.5% 2.7 1.7% $56.6 $456.6 52 626

University of Notre Dame (IN)
52 39 3.1 3.5 763 18.6% 3.5 1.0% $18.6 $190.3 49 393

Brown University (RI)
53 38 3.3 3.5 N/A 25.5% 2.9 4.7% $16.8 $284.6 21 234

University of Massachusetts-Amherst
54 37 2.9 3.3 755 22.9% 2.9 0.0% $42.0 $287.6 50 675

Colorado State University
55 36 2.7 3.1 742 36.4% 1.6 1.0% $50.1 $538.9 27 544

Drexel University (PA)
55 36 2.9 3.3 738 47.3% 2.7 3.3% $34.7 $286.4 43 942

Michigan State University
55 36 3.1 3.3 753 13.9% 2.5 0.0% $27.0 $176.5 62 579

SUNY-Stony Brook
55 36 2.9 2.9 757 38.9% 3.8 2.6% $23.8 $206.9 71 895

University of Arizona
55 36 3.2 3.3 718 34.4% 2.4 3.1% $22.9 $180.6 62 642

University of Utah
55 36 2.7 3.1 748 35.2% 2.2 3.2% $43.0 $377.2 51 772

University at Buffalo-SUNY
61 35 2.8 2.8 757 33.6% 2.6 0.8% $48.7 $423.7 52 991

University of Iowa
61 35 2.9 3.1 744 33.4% 3.3 1.2% $27.3 $306.7 38 448

Northeastern University (MA)
63 33 2.8 3.4 747 60.3% 2.4 0.0% $22.4 $243.3 27 842

University of California-Riverside (Bourns)
63 33 2.5 2.8 758 30.2% 3.1 1.3% $34.1 $486.7 37 310

University of Illinois-Chicago
65 32 2.7 3.1 744 35.3% 3.2 0.0% $21.4 $201.5 47 875

Colorado School of Mines
66 31 2.8 3.6 715 72.9% 1.5 1.9% $29.4 $180.4 39 765

Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour)
66 31 2.5 3.4 740 56.7% 1.3 1.1% $21.5 $236.1 41 1,476

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
66 31 3.0 3.4 682 41.0% 2.0 2.9% $9.8 $288.1 18 137

University of Tennessee-Knoxville
66 31 2.7 3.3 724 47.6% 1.1 2.5% $39.2 $244.8 44 839

Syracuse University (NY)
70 30 2.7 3.0 N/A 51.6% 2.8 1.6% $16.1 $251.8 34 977

University of Cincinnati
70 30 2.5 3.1 745 30.3% 3.1 0.0% $18.0 $127.6 77 959

University of Connecticut
70 30 2.7 2.9 743 28.7% 2.3 1.0% $20.8 $201.6 50 469

University of Missouri-Rolla
70 30 2.8 3.3 736 54.5% 1.2 0.6% $25.9 $137.6 53 1,106

Auburn University (Ginn) (AL)
74 29 2.7 3.3 727 58.9% 1.1 0.0% $36.3 $235.9 52 676

Tufts University (MA)
74 29 2.6 3.4 746 48.7% 1.8 1.5% $10.1 $171.3 9 493

University of New Mexico
74 29 2.6 2.8 709 51.7% 2.7 2.2% $29.0 $311.3 40 590

Clemson University (SC)
77 28 2.8 3.1 724 48.0% 1.5 0.0% $29.6 $159.4 48 736

Polytechnic University (NY)
77 28 2.6 3.2 N/A 78.3% 1.3 5.0% $11.0 $196.3 21 975

University of Texas-Dallas (Jonsson)
77 28 2.3 2.9 748 55.8% 2.0 3.3% $23.3 $270.8 42 972