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.