2012 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Engineering Programs

Want to know the rankings for these schools and others? Visit usnews.com on September 13.

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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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am read your article, am in tamilnadu so am want full information about the best college in india .am also known some website about best colleges in all state . if possible visit http://allaboutedu.com/best-colleges-in-india,http://www.apsira.com/colleges

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

1) ms in cs with tuition fee waiver and scholarship is possible or not.

2) my son is in 5th sem.

3) His cpi is 7.3.

4) we can not afford the cost.

5) i am a teacher.

kishor 11:27PM November 03, 2011

F. W. Olin College of Engineering is small and very selective but for the student who is sure that they want to do engineering (there are no other majors) it is an excellent choice for a top-notch, hands-on undergraduate education.

Bay area parent of CA 3:17PM September 12, 2011

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