<p>My son considered Rose Hulman. The only other school he considered that was like Rose Hulman was Colorado School of Mines. A couple of Texas schools you may want to consider are SMU and Trinity University. SMU is quite a bit bigger than Rose Hulman, but they have been pouring money into their engineering school. Trinity University is more of a liberal arts school, but has a very good computer science department (my son just completed his first year and loved it), and they have a very strong engineering science program.</p>