<p>You’re not right, because the best school is the one that’s best for each individual student. Some students like the smaller programs like Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc., where you can get a lot more personal attention. And their excellence is proven by the overwhelming success rate at which students from those programs go to the top graduate schools of engineering - rates higher than almost any of the supposedly best (but really just biggest) programs.</p>
<p>Also, this thread has to do with engineering. When you get into just “scientific research,” it’s a totally different topic of conversation. To show just how misguided you are, Yale received $251 million in federal scientific research funding, whereas all of UC-Berkeley received only $208 million. That means, on a per student basis, Yale has five times more scientific research than UC-Berkeley. On a per student basis, MIT, Caltech and Yale are the top three for scientific research. I would argue that those three plus Princeton have the best undergraduate science programs in the country.</p>