College Choice Publishes 2017 Ranking of the 50 Best Bachelors in Engineering Degrees
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, has published a ranking of the 50 Best Bachelors in Engineering Degrees for 2017.
The United States’ global competitiveness has become a national priority, and with it, efforts to increase the number of U.S. students seeking degrees in engineering and computer science, evident at the federal level in the America COMPETES Act, which authorized $43.3 billion in federal spending in science, engineering, mathematics and technology research and education programs.
There are many educational institutions of high quality that are offering bachelors degrees in engineering, and College Choice’s ranking seeks to parse out what separates the very best.

“Because we know that a degree is an investment of sorts, we have factored into our rankings the cost of getting an engineering degree and the salary prospects for graduates of the various schools,” Christian Amondson, Managing Editor of College Choice, said of the ranking. “And because research is such an integral part of engineering, and because schools with graduate programs tend to have more research center, labs, and institutes, we’ve limited our top fifty list to those schools with graduate programs.”
College Choice developed its list by looking at academic quality along with return on investment—the differential between tuition costs and average early career earnings.
The ranking for the 50 Best Bachelors in Engineering Degrees for 2017 finds the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the top spot. Purdue University is in second, and Georgia Institute of Technology rounds out the top three.
The entire ranking, listed in alphabetical order, is as follows:
- Arizona State University—Tempe
- Auburn University
- California Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Clemson University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Iowa State University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michigan State University
- North Carolina State University—Raleigh
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University—Columbus
- Pennsylvania State University—University Park
- Princeton University
- Purdue University–West Lafayette
- Rice University
- Rutgers University—New Brunswick
- Stanford University
- Texas A&M University—College Station
- University of Arizona
- University of California–Berkeley
- University of California—Davis
- University of California—Irvine
- University of California—Los Angeles
- University of California—San Diego
- University of California—Santa Barbara
- University of Colorado—Boulder
- University of Delaware
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland—College Park
- University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas–Austin
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin—Madison
- Vanderbilt University
- Virginia Tech
- Yale University
College Choice is an online publication dedicated to helping students and their families find the right college. The site publishes rankings and reviews that make finding the best colleges for different interests easier and more fun, as well as resources to help students get into, pay for, and thrive at the college of their choice.
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