Selected Highly Resourced Colleges with Engineering
There are over 1,000 colleges in the U.S. with engineering programs. Listed below
are 48 with a U.S.News & World Report score of at least 60 and endowment
sufficient to provide meaningful need-based grants.*
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| Universities | Liberal Arts Colleges | ||
| Princeton University (100) | Swarthmore College (94) | ||
| Columbia University (97) | U.S. Naval Academy (88) | ||
| Harvard University (97) | Colgate University (84) | 3&2 | |
| MIT (96) | Harvey Mudd College (79) | ||
| Yale University (96) | College of the Holy Cross (76) | 3&2 | |
| Stanford University (95) | Bucknell University (74) | ||
| University of Chicago (95) | Lafayette College (74) | ||
| University of Pennsylvania (94) | Trinity College (71) | ||
| Cal Tech (93) | Union College (70) | ||
| Duke University (93) | Olin College of Engineering (**) | ||
| Johns Hopkins University (93) | |||
| Northwestern University (93) | |||
| Dartmouth College (91) | |||
| Brown University (88) | |||
| Vanderbilt University (88) | |||
| Washington Univ. in St. Louis (88) | |||
| Cornell University (87) | 3&2 | ||
| Rice University (87) | |||
| University of Richmond (83) | |||
| Notre Dame (85) | |||
| UCLA (84) | |||
| Emory University (83) | |||
| Univ. of Cal. Berkeley (82) | |||
| Georgetown University (81) | |||
| Carnegie Mellon University (80) | |||
| Univ. of Michigan (81) | |||
| Univ. of Southern California (79) | |||
| Univ. of Virginia (80) | |||
| Tufts University (78) | |||
| Univ. of North Carolina (78) | |||
| Wake Forest University (78) | 3&2 | ||
| Univ. of Rochester (77) | |||
| College of William and Mary (74) | 3&2 | ||
| Georgia Tech (74) | |||
| Boston University (73) | |||
| Case Western Reserve (73) | |||
| Lehigh University (70) | |||
| Villanova University (70) | |||
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (69) | |||
| George Washington University (67) | |||
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute (67) | |||
| St. Louis University (60) | |||
| Total: 52 |
*The scores (in parenthesis) are from USN&WR, Best Colleges, 2022 Edition, on a scale of 100 as the highest, and are based on: Outcomes (40%); Faculty Resources (20%); Expert Opinion (20%); Financial Resources (10%); Student Excellence (7%); and Alumni Giving (3%). About 180 colleges have scores of 60 or above. Only Princeton and Williams have scores of 100. With limited exceptions, all colleges on this list have at least $100,000 of endowment per student.
**Not ranked by USN&WR