Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications, and then, if you're lucky, choosing among the acceptance letters to find your home away from home for the next few years. To put you on that path, each year, U.S. News surveys more than 1,600 colleges and universities and ranks them in different categories according to our methodology.
Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2012 Best Colleges rankings.
In alphabetical order, these are the top 10 best undergraduate engineering programs at engineering schools where the highest degree offered is a doctorate:
| School (State) |
|---|
| California Institute of Technology |
| Carnegie Mellon University (PA) |
| Cornell University (NY) |
| Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Purdue University—West Lafayette (IN) |
| Stanford University (CA) |
| University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign |
| University of California—Berkeley |
| University of Michigan—Ann Arbor |
The actual ranking of these and other schools will be available Sept. 13, 2011 on usnews.com.
Access the U.S. News College Compass to find complete rankings and much more.



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allabout education of UT 4:49AM February 24, 2012
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