Engineering Colleges Like Duke

ucbalumnus
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:16:56 +0000

Rankings don’t say everything. What kinds of engineering are offered can be important. For example, the types of engineering offered, from the ABET accreditation lists:

Duke: biomedical, civil, electrical and computer, mechanical
Harvard: engineering science
Lehigh: biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, materials, mechanical, systems
Northwestern: biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, materials, mechanical
Princeton: aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical
Rice: biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical
Vanderbilt: biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, mechanical
WUStL: biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, systems
Yale: chemical, electrical, mechanical

Big State University comparison:

North Carolina State: aerospace, agricultural, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, construction, electrical, environmental, industrial, materials, mechanical, mechatronics, nuclear, paper, textile
Virginia: aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, mechanical, systems
Virginia Tech: aerospace, agricultural, chemical, civil, computer, construction, electrical, engineering mechanics, industrial, materials, mechanical, mining, ocean
West Virginia: aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mining, petroleum