Mechanical Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Mechanical engineers work with machines and engines, from elevator technology to robotics. Students can focus on areas such as heat transfer and fracture mechanics. These are the top graduate schools for mechanical engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1Tie | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.9 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#1Tie | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.9 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#3 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.8 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#4Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.6 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#4Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 4.6 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#6Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.5 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.5 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#8Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4.2 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#8Tie | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4.2 | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | ||||||
#8Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 4.2 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#11Tie | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 4.1 | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | ||||||
#11Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 4.1 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#13 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 4.0 | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 | ||||||
#14 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 3.9 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | ||||||
#15Tie | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 3.8 | $43,296 per year (full-time) | 478 | 166 | $50,054,491 | ||||||
#15Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.8 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#17Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 3.7 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 3.7 | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD | 3.7 | $13,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,080 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,371 | 164 | $161,868,022 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 3.7 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.7 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 3.6 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | ||||||
#22Tie | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 3.6 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#24Tie | Brown University Providence, RI | 3.5 | $50,224 per year (full-time) | 427 | 165 | $24,004,099 | ||||||
#24Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.5 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 |