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University Ranking of Graduate Engineering Schools: U.S News Rank 2008

Rank/School	average GRE score (Quant.)	'07-'08 out of state tution	'07 accept- ance rate score	'07 engineering school research expenditures (in millions)	Ph.D.'s granted 06-07	'07 total graduate engineering enrollment
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	777	$34,750	23.5%	$237.7	328	2,636
2. Stanford University Stanford, CA	780	$37,110	28.0%	$152.3	276	3,229
3. University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	772	$14,998	20.4%	$120.3	223	1,780
4. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	767	$22,188	36.8%	$219.4	366	4,303
5. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Urbana, IL	774	$24,644	19.2%	$195.2	270	2,479
6. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	800	$29,940	131%	$84.9	112	536
7. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	765	$34,000	21.8%	$161.5	137	1,698
8. University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA	753	$22,734	46.6%	$165.0	144	3,945
9. Cornell University Ithaca, NY	775	$32,800	19.8%	$108.0	128	1,378
9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	770	$33,372	36.4%	$147.8	255	2,416
11. University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA	765	$14,694	25.0%	$141.0	132	1,213
11. University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX	759	$11,748	22.5%	$135.2	191	2,100
13. Texas A&M University-College Station (Look) College Station, TX	756	$8,712	37.2%	$205.7	173	2,428
13. University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA	768	$22,428	36.0%	$86.3	157	1,388
15. Purdue University-West Lafayette , IN	751	$22,438	32.5%	$133.8	228	2,323
15. University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	781	$24,910	23.5%	$125.6	139	1,524
17. University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD	758	$16,578	22.5%	$136.1	182	1,862
18. Princeton University Princeton, NJ	783	$34,050	16.5%	$52.9	88	519
19. University of California-Santa Barbara , CA	773	$14,988	28.3%	$92.3	95	724
20. Northwestern University (Mcormick) Evanston, IL	779	$35,064	28.1%	$97.1	110	1,255
21. Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY	775	$35,520	27.6%	$87.2	93	1,433
22. Harvard University Cambridge, MA	775	$31,456	13.0%	$37.9	47	355
23. Pennsylvania State University (PA)	752	$26,050	31.9%	$111.6	167	1,720
24. University of Florida Gainesville, FL	758	$22,603	36.9%	$108.1	187	2,474
24. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	766	$16,838	32.8%	$84.1	144	1,790
24. University of Washington Seattle, WA	736	$21,464	28.8%	$97.4	111	1,423
27. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	768	$35,900	24.4%	$56.9	69	2,661
28. Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA	749	$13,556	21.6%	$107.3	139	1,807
29. Ohio State University Columbus, OH	762	$24,486	37.4%	$113.4	119	1,347
30. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC	756	$17,684	26.6%	$104.4	138	2,125
30. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	759	$34,064	35.0%	$51.1	69	1,111
32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	752	$34,900	31.1%	$85.2	114	1,052
32. University of California-Davis (CA)	749	$24,639	35.6%	$68.3	111	1,124
32. University of Rochester (NY)	769	$34,000	15.5%	$91.7	46	451
35. Duke University Durham, NC	767	$29,340	34.1%	$63.6	63	648
35. Rice University Houston, TX	768	$24,564	15.2%	$34.8	56	521
37. University of California-Irvine (Samueli), CA	758	$24,934	25.8%	$66.2	92	984
38. University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA	749	$19,133	19.4%	$55.3	72	737
39. University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, CO	757	$23,576	57.6%	$51.3	92	1,298
39. Yale University New Haven, CT	772	$30,500	14.8%	$20.8	20	172
41. Iowa State University Ames, IA	759	$16,906	21.9%	$65.4	82	956
42. Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	767	$ 990 / credit hr.	22.1%	$33.0	43	568
42. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	754	$ 1,434/ credit hr.	12.5%	$46.4	39	406
44. Boston University Boston, MA	763	$34,930	26.3%	$70.2	68	664
45. Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ	763	$17,920	51.2%	$53.4	109	2,019
46. University of Delaware Newark, DE	748	$18,590	27.4%	$43.9	70	629
46. Washington University in St. Louis (server), MO	768	$34,500	14.7%	$19.7	42	759
48. University of Pittsburgh, PA	731	$30,908	35.8%	$62.1	49	641
49. Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	732	$22,356	34.2%	$36.7	48	612
49. University of Massachusetts-Amherst , MA	760	$ 9,937	22.4%	$45.0	71	665
49. University of Notre Dame, IN	763	$34,580	20.8%	$18.4	56	401
52. Brown University, RI	N/A	$35,584	12.9%	$16.20	N/A	261
52. Drexel University, PA	758	$22,545	32.6%	$ 35.72	N/A	1,150
52. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, NJ	N/A	$18,406	27.1%	$ 47.43	N/A	883
52. University at Buffalo, NY	760	$10,920	30.3%	$ 51.88	N/A	1,015
52. University of Arizona , AZ	719	$16,574	33.2%	$39.13	N/A	961
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH	766	$34,965	22.4%	$18.64	N/A	212
57. SUNY-Stony Brook , NY	759	$10,920	35.5%	$25.09	N/A	908
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH	766	$34,965	22.4%	$18.64	N/A	212
59. Michigan State University , MI	742	$800 (per credit hours)	11.7%	$29.50	N/A	583
59. University of Utah, UT	743	$12,177	43.72 %	$29.50	N/A	857

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Source: US News Rank

World University Ranking of Engineering Schools 2009

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RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	SCORES
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	93.9
3	Stanford University	United States	85.3
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	81.6
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	76.2
6	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	71.6
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	70.9
8	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	68.9
9	University of Tokyo	Japan	67.4
10	University of Toronto	Canada	66.0
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	64.5
12	Tsinghua University	China	63.4
13	Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	63.1
14	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	61.6
15	Princeton University	United States	61.5
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	61.4
17	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	60.4
18	McGill University	Canada	60.1
19	Harvard University	United States	59.6
20	University of Illinois	United States	58.4
21	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	57.0
22	Kyoto University	Japan	56.8
22	University of British Columbia	Canada	56.8
24	Cornell University	United States	56.4
24	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	Hong Kong	56.4
26	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	55.2
27	University of New South Wales	Australia	54.7
28	The University of Melbourne	Australia	54.4
29	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	54.1
30	University of Waterloo	Canada	53.9
31	École Polytechnique	France	52.6
32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	52.0
33	Purdue University	United States	50.9
34	Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	50.5
35	University of California, San Diego	United States	50.3
36	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	49.9
36	Australian National University	Australia	49.9
38	University of Michigan	United States	49.2
38	Peking University	China	49.2
40	Technische Universität München	Germany	48.7
41	The University of Sydney	Australia	48.0
42	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	47.7
43	Seoul National University	Korea, South	46.0
44	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	45.2
45	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	44.8
46	University of Alberta	Canada	44.6
47	Monash University	Australia	44.3
48	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	43.8
49	University of Science and Technology of China	China	42.3
49	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	42.3
49	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	42.3
49	Osaka University	Japan	42.3

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

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Rank Institution Country 2006

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA

2 University of California, Berkeley USA

3 Indian Institutes of Technology India

4 Imperial College London UK

5 Stanford University USA

6 Cambridge University UK

7 Tokyo University Japan

8 National University of Singapore Singapore

9 California Institute of Technology USA

10 Carnegie Mellon University USA

11 Oxford University UK

12 ETH Zurich Switzerland

13 Delft University of Technology Netherlands

14 Tsing Hua University China

15 Nanyang Technological University Singapore

16 Melbourne University Australia

17 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Hong Kong

18 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan

19 New South Wales University Australia

20 Beijing University China

21 Kyoto University Japan

22 Georgia Institute of Technology USA

23 Harvard University USA

24 Australian National University Australia

25 Sydney University Australia

26 Ecole Polytechnique France

27 University of Toronto Canada

28= Cornell University USA 28= Monash University Australia

30= University of Illinois USA

30= Technion — Israel Institute of Technology Isarael

32 Technical University Munich Germany

33 Princeton University USA

34 University of California, Los Angeles USA

35 University of Texas at Austin USA

36 University of Michigan USA

37 Korea Advanced Institution of Science & Technology South Korea

38 Queensland University Australia

39 Aachen RWTH Germany

40 Purdue University USA

41= China University of Science & Technology China

41= Manchester University & Umist UK

43= Auckland University New Zeland

43= National Taiwan University Taiwan

45 Ecole Polytech Fdrale de Lausanne Switzerland

46 Technical University Denmark Denmark

47 Vienna University of Technology Austria

48= University of California, San Diego USA

48= Shanghai Jiao Tong University China

50 McGill University Canada

51 British Columbia University Canada

52 Seoul National University South Korea

53= Helsinki University of Technology Finland

53= Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

55 Osaka University Japan 56 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

57 Yale University USA

58 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia

59 Waterloo University Canada 60 Texas A&M University USA

61 University of Massachusetts [Amherst] USA

62 Technical University Berlin Germany

63= Catholic University of Louvain (French) Belgium

63= Polytechnic University of Milan Italy 65 University of Wisconsin USA

66 Edinburgh University UK

67 Hong Kong University Hong Kong

68 Indian Institutes of Management India

69 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands

70 Queensland University of Technology Australia

71 Virginia Polytechnic Institute USA

72 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

73 Karlsruhe University Germany

74 University of Adelaide Australia

75 University of Columbia USA

76 Stuttgart University Germany

77= Nagoya University Japan

77= Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA

79= Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium

79= Twente University Netherlands

81 Pennsylvania University USA 82 Maryland University USA

83= Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris France

83= Sydney Technical University Australia

85= City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

85= Johns Hopkins University USA

87 Norwegian University Science & Technology Norway

88 RMIT University Australia

89 Birmingham University UK

90= Penn State University USA

90= Tohoku University Japan

90= Washington University USA

93 Sheffield University UK

94 University of California, Santa Barbara USA

95= Boston University USA

95= Chulalongkorn University Thailand

97 Fudan University China

98 Northwestern University USA

99 Nanjing University China

100 Pierre and Marie Curie University France