The 25 BEST COMPUTER-SCIENCE And ENGINEERING schools in AMERICA

The best computer-science and engineering schools in the US are hotspots for elite companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin to find and establish new talent.

A survey over 400 Business Insider readers to find out which engineering schools have the most valuable undergraduate programs.

Survey participants rated the schools on a scale from 1 star to 5 stars.

To rank the schools, they took the percentage of people who assessed each school at a 4 or 5 and averaged that with the average SAT scores (from college admissions website CollegeBoard) for the students at each school.

Once again, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in first as the best school for engineering and computer-science undergrads. Read on to see which schools made the list.

25. University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

24. Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

23. University of California at Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

22. Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

21. Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana

20. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

19. Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

18. Rice University

Houston, Texas

17. Harvey Mudd College

Claremont, California

16. University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

15. Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

14. Columbia University

New York, New York

13. Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

12. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York

11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

10. Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

9. Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

8. Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

7. Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

6. University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, California

5. Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Georgia

4. Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

3. Stanford University

Stanford, California

2. California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

In addition to being the top engineering school overall, MIT boasts No. 1-ranked programs for chemical, aerospace/aeronautical, computer, and electrical engineering, according to US News. Upon graduation, 32% of students head on to graduate school while 57% enter the workforce. Students are courted by nearly 250 companies; top employers for MIT gradsinclude Google, Amazon, ExxonMobil, and Goldman Sachs.