<p>I’m not trying to initiate a 25 page debate. But what are the top five (or more) most prestigious engineering schools in your opinion?</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<li><p>MIT</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford</p></li>
<li><p>Caltech</p></li>
<li><p>UC Berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>University of Illinois - UC</p></li>
</ol>
<p>IOWA STATE TOP 5!</p>
<p>No, but there could probably be an argument for Cornell, UMich, and Maybe you could get some for GTech</p>
<p>MIT/Stanford/Cal/CalTech/UMich/CMU/UIUC/GaTech probably covers the most prestigious grad programs.</p>
<p>I think every thread in the engineering forum that ever mentioned the word “prestige” has ended up as 25 page thread. And we know who the main posters will be and we know what their positions on this topic will be. lol</p>
<p>Something I’ve always wondered… what makes an engineering school prestigious? Selectivity? Academic rigor? Research quality? Prestige is just such an abstract term and probably means different things for different people.</p>
<p>I go with a Top 10 in no particular:</p>
<p>MIT, Stanford, CAL Tech, Berkeley, GA Tech, UIUC, Michigan, UT-Austin, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>I’m gonna come out of left field and say Juilliard. Who wants to derail this thread with me? C’mon, guys, it’ll be a yabba-doo time.</p>
<p>I’m gonna come out of left field and say Juilliard. Who wants to derail this thread with me? C’mon, guys, it’ll be a yabba-doo time.</p>
<p>I call your Julliard and raise a Liberty University.</p>
<p>Yea lets go for a train ride. Chooochoooo!</p>
<p>i would replace UT and CMU with Purdue. Purdue is def better than those two schools.</p>
<p>^^^Purdue was a close one. It’s up there.</p>
<p>Omg purdue is not better than carnegie Mellon. Ppl r dumb lately</p>
<p>You last three guys are bad at this “derailing” thing.</p>
<p>Hey aibarr, I heard UIUC engineering school has the best looking girls. LOL</p>
<p>Purdue better than Carnegie Mellon? lmao</p>
<p>hi aibarr</p>
<p>Number of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) faculty at select universities</p>
<p>MIT 108</p>
<p>Stanford 84
Berkeley 75</p>
<p>Texas 50 </p>
<p>Caltech 29
Illinois 29
Georgia Tech 25
Cornell 24
UCSB 24
Michigan 22
Carnegie Mellon 21
Princeton 21
USC 20</p>
<p>Northwestern 18
Purdue 18
UCSD 18
Wisconsin 18
Minnesota 17
UCLA 17
Columbia 16
Harvard 16
Texas A&M 16
Washington 14
Rice 12
Arizona 11
Maryland 11
Virginia 11
Virginia Tech 11
Arizona State 10
Colorado 10
Johns Hopkins 10
Penn State 10</p>
<p>Pennsylvania 9
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 7
Yale 6
Houston 5
UNC 5
Duke 3</p>
<p>About the NAE</p>
<p>The NAE is a member of the National Academies, which includes the NAE, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC) – which serves as the principal operating arm of the academies. Engineering program activities of the National Academies cut across the many operational units of these four organizations, although most projects are executed by units of the NRC. </p>
<p>The NAE has more than 2,000 peer-elected members and foreign associates, senior professionals in business, academia, and government who are among the world’s most accomplished engineers. They provide the leadership and expertise for numerous projects focused on the relationships between engineering, technology, and the quality of life. </p>
<p>source: <a href=“http://www.nae.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.nae.edu</a></p>
<p>Ken 285: Define prestige as the overall name recognition when applying for graduate school or a job.</p>
<p>Members are elected to NAE membership by their peers (current NAE members). Election to membership is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations. </p>
<p>source: <a href=“http://www.nae.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.nae.edu</a></p>
<p>if you have a name recognition like MIT or Stanford, you don’t have to give stats like NAE to boost your favorite school’s prestige.</p>
<p>i’m sorry but it’s really lame how some go beyond certain measures to make their school (or their favorite school) look prestigious.</p>
<p>above poster is obviously a UT-Austin fan, as much as the OP is an UIUC fan.</p>
<p>just ask how many ppl would choose UT-Austin (NAE:50) over CalTech(29), Princeton(21), or even Duke (3). most ppl would choose the latter group. </p>
<p>that’s prestige. NAE doesn’t mean a thing to most ppl.</p>