Top 20 Universities for Engineering in the US

Rank

University/College

Location

Average GRE Score (out of 340)

Tuition Fee per year

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Cambridge, MA

317

$44,720

2

Stanford University 

Stanford, CA

317

$47,073

3

University of California-Berkeley 

Berkeley, CA

322

$26,322

4

Carnegie Mellon University 

Pittsburgh, PA

319

$41,000

5

California Institute of Technology 

Pasadena, CA

317

$41,790

6

Georgia Institute of Technology 

Atlanta, GA

325

$27,600

7

Purdue University-West Lafayette 

West Lafayette, IN

318

$29,134

8

University of Illinois-Urbana-​Champaign 

Urbana, IL

320

$30,848

9

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 

Ann Arbor, MI

327

$43,024

10

University of Southern California (Viterbi) 

Los Angeles, CA

316

$32,747

11

University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) 

Austin, TX

320

$17,506

12

Texas A&M University-College Station (Look) 

College Station, TX

310

$581 per credit

13

Cornell University 

Ithaca, NY

331 (median score)

$29,500

14

Columbia University (Fu Foundation) 

New York, NY

315

$41,040

15

University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) 

Los Angeles, CA

317

$27,673

16

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Madison, WI

316

$25,190

17

University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) 

La Jolla, CA

322

$26,322

18

Princeton University 

Princeton, NJ

311

$41,820

19

University of Pennsylvania 

Philadelphia, PA

325

$29,890

20

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA

326

$40,416


Some other well-known Universities for Engineering

Rank

University/College

Location

Average GRE Score (out of 340)

Tuition Fee per year

21

Northwestern University (McCormick) 

Evanston, IL

320

$46,836

23

University of California-Santa Barbara 

Santa Barbara, CA

320

$28,216

25(tie)

Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) 

Baltimore, MD

327

$47,060

25(tie)

Pennsylvania State University-University Park 

University Park, PA

315

$33,386

28

University of Washington 

Seattle, WA

323

$28,425