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Specialty Rankings: Mechanical Engineering
Ranking | University | Scored | |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 4.9 |
| 2 | Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 4.8 |
| 3 | University of California--Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 4.7 |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 4.6 |
| 4 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 4.6 |
| 6 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | 4.5 |
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | 4.4 |
| 7 | Purdue University--West Lafayette | West Lafayette, IN | 4.4 |
| 9 | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 4.2 |
| 10 | Princeton University | Urbana, IL | 4.0 |
| 10 | University of Texas--Austin (Cockrell) | Austin, TX | 4.0 |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | 3.9 |
| 12 | Northwestern University (McCormick) | Evanston, IL | 3.9 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | University Park, PA | 3.8 |
| 14 | University of California--Los Angeles (Samueli) | Los Angeles, CA | 3.8 |
| 14 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | Madison, WI | 3.8 |
| 14 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | 3.8 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) | Baltimore, MD | 3.7 |
| 18 | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA | 3.7 |
| 20 | Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 3.6 |
| 20 | Texas A&M University--College Station (Look) | College Station, TX | 3.6 |
| 20 | University of California--San Diego (Jacobs) | La Jolla, CA | 3.6 |
| 20 | University of Maryland--College Park (Clark) | College Park, MD | 3.6 |
| 24 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | 3.5 |
| 24 | University of California--Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | 3.5 |
| 26 | Duke University | Durham, NC | 3.4 |
| 26 | Rice University (Brown) | Houston, TX | 3.4 |
| 26 | University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | 3.4 |
| 26 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 3.4 |
| 26 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) | Los Angeles, CA | 3.4 |
| 31 | Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | 3.3 |
| 31 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) | New York, NY | 3.3 |
| 31 | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 3.3 |
| 31 | University of Washington | Seattle, WA | 3.3 |
| 35 | University of California--Davis | Davis, CA | 3.2 |
| 35 | University of California--Irvine (Samueli) | Irvine, CA | 3.2 |
| 35 | University of Colorado--Boulder | Boulder, CO | 3.2 |
| 38 | Arizona State University (Fulton) | Tempe, AZ | 3.1 |
| 38 | Lehigh University (Rossin) | Bethlehem, PA | 3.1 |
| 38 | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 3.1 |
| 38 | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | 3.1 |
| 38 | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 3.1 |
| 38 | Yale University | New Haven, CT | 3.1 |
| 44 | Iowa State University | Ames, IA | 3.0 |
| 44 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick | Piscataway, NJ | 3.0 |
| 44 | University of Delaware | Newark, DE | 3.0 |
| 44 | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | 3.0 |
| 48 | Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | 2.9 |
| 48 | Michican Technological University | Houghton, MI | 2.7 |
| 48 | Missouri University of Science & Technology | Rolla, MO | 2.9 |
| 48 | University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 2.9 |
| 48 | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | 2.9 |
| 48 | Washington University in St. Louis (Sever) | St. Louis, MO | 2.9 |
| 54 | University at Buffalo--SUNY | Buffalo, NY | 2.8 |
| 54 | University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | 2.8 |
| 56 | Boston University | Boston, MA | 2.7 |
| 56 | Clemson University | Clemson, SC | 2.7 |
| 56 | Dartmouth College (Thayer) | Hanover, NH | 2.7 |
| 56 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) | Chicago, IL | 2.7 |
| 56 | Northeastern University | Boston, MA | 2.7 |
| 56 | SUNY--Stony Brook | Stony Brook, NY | 2.7 |
| 56 | University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | 2.7 |
| 56 | University of Illinois--Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2.7 |
| 56 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst | Amherst, MA | 2.7 |
America's Best Undergraduate Engineering Program 2008
: Mechanical Engineering
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
| 2008 | 2007 | |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University (CA) |
| 3 | 3 | University of California–Berkeley* |
| 4 | 5 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor* |
| 6 | 6 | Georgia Institute of Technology* |
| 7 | 7 | Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN)* |
| 8 | 10 | Cornell University (NY) |
| 9 | 8 | California Institute of Technology |
| 10 | 15 | Carnegie Mellon University (PA) |
| 11 | 11 | University of Texas–Austin * |
| 12 | 13 | Penn State University–University Park * |
| 13 | 12 | Princeton University (NJ) |
| 14 | 22 | Virginia Tech |
| 15 | 18 | Texas A&M University–College Station * |
| 16 | 9 | University of Minnesota–Twin Cities* |
| 17 | 17 | Northwestern University (IL) |
| 18 | 16 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) |
| 19 | 14 | University of Wisconsin–Madison * |
| 20 | - | Johns Hopkins University (MD) |
| 21 | 19 | Ohio State University–Columbus * |
| 22 | - | Lehigh University (PA) |
| 22 | - | Mechigan Technological University* |
| 22 | - | University of California–San Diego* |
| 22 | - | University of California–Santa Babara* |
| 22 | University of California–Santa Babara* |
* denotes a public school.
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- Overall / Undergraduate (All Majors)
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- Agricultural
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- Chemical
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- Environmental / Environmental Health
- Industrial/Manufacturing
- Materials
- Mechanical
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Source: US News Rank
