<p>First of all, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the world’s 3 best engineering schools (MIT > Berkeley/Stanford). These institutions have the most outstanding departments in all engineering fields, ranging from nuclear to electrical. Getting into any of them is certainly a considerable achievement as these schools can open the path to success (Look at where Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford graduates get hired by visiting their career centers).</p>
<p>However, like all college admission processes, there is no single golden formula to get into these universities. Nevertheless, assuming that you do get into any of these schools, it may be beneficial to have prior programming experience in high-level programming softwares such as Python, C++, JAVA etc. This becomes a major component in your engineering career as computer science is now indispensable.</p>