Best Engineering Schools Archives - collegegazette.com https://collegegazette.com/tag/best-engineering-schools/ News, Rankings, and More on Higher Education Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:16:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Discover the 10 Best Colleges for Engineering https://collegegazette.com/discover-the-10-best-colleges-for-engineering/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:06:27 +0000 https://collegegazette.com/?p=133 For the student who wishes to pursue a career in engineering, finding the right school is of the utmost importance. After all, virtually every single working-class engineer in the US and abroad today went to college for engineering. Some of these schools have significantly higher placement rates into the workforce immediately after graduation. The very […]

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For the student who wishes to pursue a career in engineering, finding the right school is of the utmost importance.

After all, virtually every single working-class engineer in the US and abroad today went to college for engineering.

Some of these schools have significantly higher placement rates into the workforce immediately after graduation. The very best schools have alumni who command top starting salaries with the most prestigious of companies.

Of course, one consideration for engineering schools is the specialty you would like to pursue. Some schools are better for aerospace engineering, while others are the very best for electrical engineering, others at nuclear, environmental, and mechanical engineering.

This list is a ranking for overall quality of the undergraduate engineering program.

How we made this list: this list is essentially an “average” of 8 other online lists. You can read more about our methodology as well as see the sources for the rankings at the end of this article.

Here are the 10 of the best colleges for engineering in the US.

10. Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science (Princeton, NJ)

Princeton University
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Widely considered one of the top schools worldwide, in many years Princeton is ranked #1 on the US News and World Report list.

With good reason, too. Princeton accepts just 7% of all applicants.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton is regularly ranked among the top 10 programs worldwide, including in a 2019 list by Times Higher Education.

Alumni of the engineering school include the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos as well as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Additionally, faculty at the school are among the most decorated in all of academia. They include MacArthur fellows Claire Gmachl, known for her work with lasers, and Naomi Leonard, a highly regarded aerospace engineer.


9. Carnegie-Mellon University College of Engineering (Pittsburgh, PA)

Carnegie Mellon University
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One of the largest engineering colleges at a university in the country, Carnegie-Mellon enrolls approximately 4,000 students at any given time in its engineering school.

Widely regarded a top engineering program, it consistently ranks in the top 10 in US News’ Engineering rankings.

Carnegie-Mellon’s faculty frequently appear in major news publications. In the last few months alone, this list includes Chemical Engineering Professor Neil Donahue, who was interviewed in the New York Times, and Vyas Sekar, who was interviewed on NBC.

It’s no wonder that faculty at CMU are regularly profiled in top publications; innovation is at the heart of Carnegie-Mellon’s program.

Recent engineering advances made by CMU people include using sensors to detect illness in pigs, creating autonomous habitats in space, and lunar robots funded by NASA.


HONORABLE MENTION: Milwaukee School of Engineering (Milwaukee, WI)

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One of the top schools for engineering in the country, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, known as the MSOE, is one of the most prestigious institutions for engineering worldwide.

Although the school offers 16 unique Bachelor’s degree, 10 of them are focused on engineering. Some of the most renowned engineering programs at the school include Architectural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, among many other renowned programs.

The school does not have your typical large-lecture-hall style of teaching. Rather, the school boasts more labs than classrooms for a reason – they want to teach students how to be doers, not just thinkers or academicians.

Because of this, the program is extremely hands-on, having attained a number of partnerships with Milwaukee based companies, such as Harley-Davidson and Snap-On. Getting a job within a year of graduation is the norm for many students at this school, as 260+ companies come to recruit students for internships at the school’s annual career fair.

One of the great opportunities this school offers includes amazing study-abroad opportunities for engineering students. Engineering students have the chance to study in New Zealand, Italy, or even the Czech Republic for a quarter.


8. Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Cambridge, MA)

Harvard University
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Harvard’s list of highly-accomplished engineering alumni are among the greatest of any school. Here is a partial list of the school’s most famous graduates.

With nearly $1bn endowed for the Engineering School alone, Harvard is home to one of the most selective programs in the country. The engineering school is named after investor John Paulson, who donated a staggering $400m to the program four years ago.

A graduate-degree granting program only, Harvard only accepts admission for Master’s and Doctoral degree engineering programs.


7. Purdue University College of Engineering (West Lafayette, IN)

Purdue’s excellence in engineering is best demonstrated by its impressive track record.

No less than twenty-four of America’s astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, attended Purdue University’s engineering program. US News consistently ranks Purdue in its top 10 engineering schools in the country.

Faculty in the program are at the forefront of innovation. Here is an article from Medium published by Purdue’s Engineering program about how the school is developing solar power technologies to benefit agriculture.

Purdue has another unique distinction; it was the first school to have a specific Women In Engineering Program (WIEP). The aim of this program is to inspire engineering trends in women and young girls in a field that has been predominantly male. The program has been in place for 50 years and has been a major career development hub for aspiring female engineers.


6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering (Urbana, IL)

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the most cited engineering school in the world, meaning that more official papers have cited the research at UIUC than at a­ny other school.

Founders of the some of the biggest companies in the world have studied at this prestigious school, including Oracle, Tesla, PayPal, Mozilla, and even YouTube.

One of the unique facilities at this school is the Grainger Engineering Library, known as the largest library in the world dedicated solely to volumes and texts in engineering.

The faculty at the school are among the most noted engineers in the world. 34 current faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering, the renowned non-profit in which new members are elected based on their scientific contributions.

The school spends over $200,000,000.00 annually on research and development, placing it in the top 5% of all colleges in the nation.

The school places a large emphasis on interdisciplinary research, with some of their research centers diving into advanced fields such as supercomputing, genomic biology, and even technology entrepreneurship.

Every year, over 100 companies participate in the school’s “Employment Expo” in which students of the school have the opportunity to interview for internships and jobs with the top STEM organizations in the world.


HONORABLE MENTION Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, MO)

Perhaps the most hidden-gem program on this competitive list of top engineering colleges, Missouri University of Science and Technology is well-known for its approach to experiential learning.

Popular Science magazine named dubbed the school as having one of the best college labs in the country, citing the amazing “experimental mine” lab that teaches students how to implode buildings, run pyrotechnics, and create fireworks displays.

One hallmark of the school is in its creative engineering projects, for which it is world-renowned. One of the highest achievements the student body has produced is the solar powered car, a car outfitted with solar panels making it run completely on renewable solar energy.

With this invention, the school competes in the American Solar Challenge, regularly placing in the highest ranks of this week-long competition of solar cars.

The school is also home to a partnership with top companies such as Apple, Cisco, and IBM. The established partnership is known as Missouri S&T Electromagnetic Compatibility Consortium, a program in which companies such as the aforementioned fund important work in electromagnetic compatibility.

What we like about this school is that it does not involve itself solely in hours of theoretical research – rather, this program is all about giving hands experiential, hands-on learning for a future designed around innovative science and technology.


5. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

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With 57,000 living graduates of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, it is easy to see why it is known throughout the world as one of the very best engineering schools.

With 14 different buildings used as facilities for this expansive program, the engineering offerings are tremendous at UC Berkeley. They include civil, energy, nuclear, and mechanical engineering departments, as well as another 10 dedicated engineering departments.

Some of the top executives working in the biggest name companies started their education at UC Berkeley. These executives include Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, Eric Schmidt, billionaire and former Chairman of Google, and Paul Jacobs, former Executive Chairman of Qualcomm.

UC Berkeley is known for having some of the most innovative faculty in the world. They include Carlo Sequin, a recognized pioneer in the design of computer processors, Richard Karp, well-known computer scientist who won the coveted Turing Award for his work in computation theory, and Ken Goldberg, one of the today’s leaders in the field of robotics.

With an acceptance rate of less than 10% for undergraduate students applying to UC Berkeley’s engineering school, this is one of the most competitive programs in the country for any specialized major.


4. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

California Institute of Technology
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California Institute of Technology, more often known as CalTech, is regularly ranked among the top schools throughout the world.

In 2011 alone, the school managed an impressive $332,000,000.00 in sponsored research funding, demonstrating the school’s commitment to bridging scientific advancement with involvement from both faculty and students.

There are 53 current (non-emeritus) faculty members at the school who have been named to a US National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Some of the greatest scientists and thinkers in the world teach at CalTech.

The school is also the number one school in the country for students who eventually earn a PhD.


3. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Engineering (Atlanta, GA)

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Established over 125 years ago, the program in engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology is among the most widely regarded worldwide.

Entrepreneurship is one of the main themes of Georgia Tech’s program, best demonstrated by CREATE-X, a startup incubator for companies run by students.

In this program, students apply for a grant with a company idea. If accepted, the students get funding for their startup. In 2018, some of the funded companies include Vails, which are 3D-printed artificial nails customized through an app, and Convexmind, an app that helps children eventually become literate.

Outside of entrepreneurship, the school is working on innovative sciences potentially impacting health worldwide, including a new HIV treatment.

Admission into Georgia Tech is highly selective; only 26% are accepted into the school, making it among the most difficult in the country for admission.


HONORABLE MENTION: Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO)

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Now we have arrived at the number one school in the country for engineering, the Colorado School of Mines. A school entirely devoted to engineering and science, the Colorado School of Mines is one of the top schools in the country for return-on-education-investment.

In fact, PayScale.com recently rated Colorado School of Mines as the 8th best school in the country for a return on investment for residents of Colorado. For residents outside of Colorado, it is in the top 15.

Beating out universities such as Princeton, Harvard, and Dartmouth, this one unique rating demonstrates an unparalleled bang-for-your-buck excellence in education.

Although it is heralded for a number of engineering programs, it is best known for its mineral engineering program.

Faculty accolades demonstrate just how excellent this school is. The head of the mining program, Priscilla Nelson, recently was awarded a prestigious award for excellence in teaching from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration.

The environment of the school is one that fosters close connections among the faculty and students. A new tradition of the school, Oredigger Camp, is an event where 600 incoming students of the school spend a few days in the Rocky Mountains tackling various science and outdoors related projects.

Creative activities like these are the hallmark of this exemplary institution, which fosters unique young thinkers today to become top engineers for tomorrow’s bustling economy.


HONORABLE MENTION: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN)

Consistently ranked by US News and World report as the best undergraduate school in the world for engineering and technology, this primarily undergraduate institution is among the most innovative, forward-thinking engineering programs in the world.

One of the great hallmarks of the Rose-Hulman program is student employment outcome at the school. Every single year, 98% of graduates are placed into the ranks of working professionals. This exceptionally high placement rate showcases the solid reputation this school has with employers in the STEM fields.

Adding to its solid reputation is the fact that, according to payscale.com, the school is among the top 30 of all universities in the whole country for the best return on investment.

This prestigious school is constantly advancing itself and its facilities. A recent $15,000,000 gift to the school is being used to create an impressive 60,000 square foot space outfitted with flexible classrooms, workspaces, design studios, and more. The building will be open to students in 2021.

One great feature of this school is the excellence and dedication of the faculty to the student body. One such faculty member is Renee Rogge, the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering program, who has involved countless Rose-Hulman students in a number of important, innovative research projects advancing biomechanics.

Alumni of the program are among the most accomplished in the country with many going on to work for, and even become executives of, the top companies worldwide.


2. Stanford University School of Engineering (Palo Alto, CA)

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Stanford’s academia, experience, and atmosphere is unparalleled in the world of college engineering.

Because of its presence in Silicon Valley, Stanford Engineers have access to many of the world’s greatest companies for internship and employment after graduation; they include Google, Facebook, SpaceX, and countless more.

Stanford itself is at the forefront of technology and engineering; a recent publication on the Stanford website showcases a faculty interview with James Landay about the “human-computer” interaction.

When we put together this list, we aggregated eight top-10 lists that have been read online by millions of viewers. Stanford placed in nearly every list, making it a unanimous choice as a top engineering school in the country.


1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering (Cambridge, MA)

The largest school within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the School of Engineering is among the most impressive institutions of any kind in the world.

Boasting 130,000 square feet of what the school calls “maker spaces,” the school is at the forefront of excellence in everyday student life as well as groundbreaking research.

One of the flagship programs at the school includes the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, known around the school as UROP. An impressive 90% of the students participate in this program, in which students partake in experiential learning opportunities in direct collaboration with the school’s faculty. This allows for a deeply personalized learning experience not available to students at every engineering school.

As one of the most famous and prestigious schools, it also among the most selective. For the fall of 2018, just 6.7% of applicants were admitted into the school.


This list is represents a “weighted average” of 8 other lists online about the top engineering schools in the country.

You can read our methodology to find out more about how we make these rankings.

Here are the lists themselves, sourced in August 2019. Any updates to these lists since that time was not accounted for when making this ranking.

Niche

US News

QS Top Universities

Business Insider

Times Higher Education

Ranker

College Factual

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These Are the 10 Best Colleges for Aerospace Engineering https://collegegazette.com/these-are-the-10-best-colleges-for-aerospace-engineering/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:03:42 +0000 https://collegegazette.com/?p=85 It’s amazing how many young minds today are interested in attending college for aerospace engineering. This field of engineering, concerning itself with the creation of aircraft and spacecraft, has gained tremendous popularity over the past 15 years. Because of this field of engineering’s close relationship to the outside world, colloquially, aerospace engineering is THE field […]

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It’s amazing how many young minds today are interested in attending college for aerospace engineering.

This field of engineering, concerning itself with the creation of aircraft and spacecraft, has gained tremendous popularity over the past 15 years.

Because of this field of engineering’s close relationship to the outside world, colloquially, aerospace engineering is THE field known as “rocket science.”

We find many of the best schools in the country consistently building their programs more and more for excellence in aerospace engineering; schools like University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIT, and Georgia Institute of Technology are among just a few names that people look to consistently as the kings of this unique major of “rocket science.”

But are these schools among the top 10 for aerospace engineering in today’s landscape of colleges?

In this article, we dive right into this topic, searching out the best schools the US has to offer for this particularly unique niche. For this list, we analyzed several other “best aerospace engineering” lists, assigned a score to each school based on their position in each list, then came up with a final “meta-analysis” ranking.

Without further ado, here are the top 10 colleges for aerospace engineering in the US:

10. University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)

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Fun fact: Right now, the University of Colorado at Boulder is constructing a brand-new 144,000-square-foot building, which will be dedicated to its aerospace program.

Why?

According to its program, Colorado holds the title of second largest aerospace economy in the U.S., so it’s about time the state builds a hub — and students will reap the benefits of it.

Additionally, the school is all about hands-on learning and research. Focus areas include aerospace engineering systems; astrodynamics and satellite navigation systems; bioastronautics; and remote sensing, earth and space sciences.

Recently, a group of students have designed a whale-scouting drone to help scientists learn more about sperm whales and how to help save them. (The project is unironically named SHAMU, Search and Help Aquatic Mammals UAS.)

Research at the university is led by notable faculty members, including two presidential teaching scholars and two NASA astronauts.


9. University of Texas, Austin (Austin, Texas)

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There’s some exciting headlines coming out of the aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Recently, assistant professor Luis Sentis was granted $1 million to work on creating “humanoid robots” that’ll help humans on space missions.

It’s not just faculty making headlines either. Student group Women in Aerospace for Leadership and Development has built drones that can be operated with brain waves, voice commands and body movements.

Then there’s the Longhorn Rocketry Association that developed a rocket engine test facility. Pretty impressive, right?

Since 1943, when the first aeronautical bachelor’s degrees were handed out at UT, the department has been taking the industry — and world — by storm.

Take, for example, student Dewey Younger, who, in 1949 built a flying saucer and was later accused of sparking the famous “Flying Saucer Sighting Scare.”

But that same model evolved into AVRO VZ-9V Avrocar, a vehicle that could take off and land vertically and held a crew of two.

Students continue to show the world “the sky isn’t the limit.”


HONORABLE MENTION: Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)

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Check out Iowa State University’s hall of fame — or hall of distinguished alumni — and you’ll spot astronauts, professors, NASA directors, the executive vice president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, and even the CEO of Lockheed Martin.

These alumni exemplify the diverse opportunities available through Iowa State.

For the institution’s nearly 90-year-old aeronautical program, the sky isn’t the limit.

That’s because Iowa State is constantly looking forward into future of engineering.

With both undergraduate and graduate programs, it claims to be one of the top suppliers of professionals in the aerospace industry.

Ninety percent of its students have jobs within six months of graduation.

Perhaps what makes Iowa State stand out is its emphasis on hands-on learning. Its Make to Innovate (M:2:I) program hosts opportunities for students “to build, to break, and to learn from their failures.”

The program takes real-world problems and strives to offer a solution. Right now, it has approximately 15 ongoing projects with more than 200 students involved.


8. Rensselaer Institute of Technology (Troy, New York)

Rensselaer Institute of Technology
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An outstanding aspect of the Rensselaer experience is their BS-PhD program. In this unique program, students can enroll at RPI for a doctoral degree immediately after completing a Bachelor’s degree. This provides students an unparalleled opportunity for research at a prestigious university while getting paid to do so (at the PhD level).

The engineering program at RPI, known as MANE (Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering) enrolls nearly 1600 students, approximately 1400 being undergraduates.

The university as a whole has some of the most distinguished faculty working in science today. They include five National Medal of Science winners, a Nobel Prize winner, six National Medal of Technology recipients, members in the National Inventors Hall of fame, and more.

Interestingly, according to the school’s website, Rensselaer is home to the nation’s most powerful university-based supercomputers.


7. Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg, VA)

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At Virginia Polytech, students in the aerospace engineering program have recently built satellites deployed into space. Amazing opportunities like this are at the core of the Virginia Tech experience; much of the program’s focus is around building vehicles for space, air, and ocean.

Speaking of ocean, Virginia Polytech is home to a major in Ocean Engineering, which in fact is very similar to their Aerospace curriculum. Because of this, students can dual major in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at the school.

Uniquely, Virginia Polytech as a whole consistently scores high in metrics for student happiness. According to the Princeton Review in 2017, Virginia Tech is the 7th-happiest campus, 4th-best food campus, and 1st overall for quality of life.

Virginia Polyech’s aerospace engineering program is consistently ranked among the top in the world; US News ranked it recently in its top 20, and Best Value Schools ranked it number two on their list.


6. Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)

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Stanford has one of the most compelling Aerospace Engineering programs in the world. Research at the school includes work on cyber safety for transportation, future aircraft design, space systems, and much more.

Faculty and alumni from Stanford’s aerospace engineering program are among the most celebrated in the world. Many graduates of Stanford have gone on to win Guggenheim fellowships, entrance into the National Academy of Engineering, and more. Amazingly, 11 percent of the nation’s PhD in aerospace engineering graduate from Stanford.

Stanford is home to some of the impressive facilities for studying aerospace engineering in the country. They include the Aerospace Computing Lab, which is used in the design of aircraft and other aerospace products, the Aerospace Design Laboratory, and even an experimental Flight Room.


5. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)

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Caltech offers an undergraduate minor and boasts reputable graduate programs within its department of aerospace.

Coined GALCIT (Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology), the department focuses on not only the fundamentals in mechanics but also research, advanced facilities and infrastructure, and direct collaboration with the aerospace industry and government labs.

Research at the institution takes place in its experimental facilities in fluids, solids, materials, biomechanics, propulsion and combustion — which, the school says, sets it apart from other aerospace programs.

Additionally, GALCIT has produced a number of notable alumni, including some of its own professors, the presidents of major corporations and astronauts.


4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

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Did you know there’s an Aerospace Day?

Now you do, and the University of Michigan’s aerospace engineering program celebrates — twice a year.

In fact, it’s one of the program’s largest events, pulling in students from across the state. The goal is to get young people stoked about aerospace.

In addition to celebrating its field, the program also focuses on research. It started, most notably, with a wind tunnel being built in 1926.

From there, the university has tested airplane models for the Ford Motor Company; has performed wind-pressure and rain-penetration tests for the Celotex Corporation of Chicago; and has taken part in a number of confidential projects for the Army Air Corps.

To further emphasize the University of Michigan’s important role in the aerospace engineering industry, Michigan souvenirs, including the seal of its department, sit on the moon, placed there by the Apollo 15 crew.


3. Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)

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Purdue’s most public claim to fame in aersospace engineering is actually the accomplishment of one of their alumni. Neil Armstrong, a graduate of Purdue’s Aerospace program, was the first man on the moon.

However, perhaps the most impressive part of the aerospace engineering experience at Purdue is Zucrow Labs, a 24-acre facility representing the nation’s largest university propulsion facility. At Zucrow Labs, students study, first-hand, turbo machinery, combustion, atomization processes, and much more.

Purdue’s program is widely lauded: both US News as well as ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) ranked it in the top 5. In fact, most publications rank Purdue among the top 10 for aerospace engineering in the country.

The research being done in Purdue’s program can be classified as nothing short of brilliant and visionary. One professor in the aerospace engineering program, Alexy Shashurin, has overseen a device with the potential to treat cancer with plasma cells.

The aerospace engineering program at Purdue is available to both undergraduate and graduate students, making it an ideal option for the aspiring rocket scientist, astronaut, or other space/engineering professional.


HONORABLE MENTION: University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)

University of Notre Dame
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What sets the University of Notre Dame apart from other aerospace engineering programs is that it has relationships with 14 other universities across the world — from Perth, Australia, to Hong Kong, China, to Santiago, Chile.

Its students typically study abroad their fifth and/or sixth semesters and are able to immerse themselves into a new culture.

One seven-week program, which takes place at Tsinghua University in China, allows Notre Dame students to work closely with Chinese students to tackle real-world design challenges for global corporations.

Not a bad summer…

Research also plays a big role at Notre Dame — “from the time Albert Zahm experimented with his manned gliders at the old Science Hall to the computer-aided analysis of supersonic aerodynamics in the wind tunnels of Hessert Center…” the department states.

Its more recent research areas focus on flow physics and control; biomedical science and engineering; mechanics, computation and design; and energy/thermal sciences.


HONORABLE MENTION: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)

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The aerospace engineering program at the University of Illinois offers students ample opportunities to design, create and fly aircraft and spacecraft before they receive their diplomas.

Many of those opportunities come from not only within the classrooms and labs but also in the form of student organizations.

The university offers a little bit of everything from a student branch of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to the Illinois Space society to Student Aircraft builders.

Students at the university also have access to the engineering career services department, which has paired with big names including Boeing, Cisco, Procter and Gamble, and the U.S. Navy.

It’s worth noting the average University of Illinois engineering alumni receives two or more job offers.

Also impressive is the graduates’ of aerospace willingness to stay in touch with their roots by returning to the school to judge competitions, speak in lectures and act as mentors to current students.


2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Offering its first aerospace course in 1914, MIT boasts one of the oldest programs in the country.

The school’s AeroAstro program has produced a number of notable alumni, including Buzz Aldrin, one of four MIT graduates who has set foot on the moon.

In fact, more astronauts hold an MIT diploma than any other school.

Together, they’ve logged more than 10,000 hours in space.

Back toward earth, MIT’s AeroAstro students and alumni have garnered a number of firsts. In 1953, “Doc” Draper, the founder and director of the school’s instrumentation lab, flew from Massachusetts to Los Angeles, successfully completing the first long-distance inertially navigated flight.

More recently, the Gas Turbine Lab is working to develop a silent jet, which would be no louder than a semi-truck.

The program has also acknowledged the 21st century’s changing aerospace industry and has created and implemented new curriculum and educational initiative deemed Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate.

More than 100 universities worldwide have also implemented the protocol.


1. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia)

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In February 2018, the White House named 29 candidates for the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group.

Hopefuls included the president of SpaceX, the CEO of Boeing, five astronauts — and Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, who started his career as a research scientist.

Peterson’s passion for research trickles down to Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.

There, research plays an integral role in the program. Not only does every graduate student partake in research, approximately 30% of undergraduates are eligible to join in, too.

Disciplines include aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, flight mechanics and controls, propulsion and combustion, structural mechanics and materials, and system design and optimization.

Each week, the school’s newsletter, “The AErial View” boasts a number of new opportunities for students, including notable speakers coming to campus, academic opportunities including NASA’s call for abstracts, scholarships, competitions, club meetings and even open jobs.


For this article, we sourced several different lists to create a meta-analysis ranking.

US News

College Factual

Ranker

Best Value Schools

ARWU

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