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I Build Robots While Reading Plato, Kneel Before My Megamind
They either have massive prestige, infinite endowments, or were literally built from the ground up to revolutionize interdisciplinary engineering education. If you graduate from here, you probably haven't slept in four years, but your starting salary and/or acceptance to MIT for grad school will make up for the bags under your eyes.
| # ▲ | University | Location | Degrees | Accept | SAT | Male/Female | Intl | Earnings | ROI | Employ | ||
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| 1 |
Harvey Mudd
Claremont,
CA
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Claremont, CA | 62 | 9% | 58% / 42% | 3% | $123,894 | 99 | 91% | — |
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Olin College of Engineering
Needham,
MA
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Needham, MA | 52 | 8% | 56% / 44% | 10% | $128,427 | 99 | 96% | — |
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Dartmouth
Hanover,
NH
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Hanover, NH | 199 | 6% | 52% / 48% | 9% | $102,252 | 93 | 94% | — |
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U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign,
IL
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Champaign, IL | 58 | 37% | 72% / 28% | 14% | $104,669 | 97 | 100% | — |
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Cooper Union
New York,
NY
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New York, NY | 6 | 12% | 67% / 33% | 33% | $97,835 | 95 | — | — |
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Brown
Providence,
RI
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Providence, RI | 68 | 5% | 54% / 46% | 22% | $117,101 | 98 | 97% | — |
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Swarthmore
Swarthmore,
PA
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Swarthmore, PA | 29 | 7% | 69% / 31% | 7% | $76,949 | 70 | 100% | — |
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute,
IN
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Terre Haute, IN | 7 | 77% | 57% / 43% | 0% | $99,558 | 93 | — | — |
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Johns Hopkins
Baltimore,
MD
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Baltimore, MD | 2 | 6% | 0% / 100% | 0% | $115,990 | 98 | — | — |
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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis,
MO
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Saint Louis, MO | 8 | 12% | 63% / 38% | 0% | $106,015 | 94 | — | — |
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Colorado School of Mines
Golden,
CO
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Golden, CO | 17 | 29% | 76% / 24% | 0% | $95,717 | 94 | 100% | — |
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U. of Virginia
Charlottesville,
VA
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Charlottesville, VA | 2 | 12% | 0% / 100% | 0% | $86,699 | 84 | 83% | — |
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Case Western Reserve
Cleveland,
OH
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Cleveland, OH | 1 | 35% | 100% / 0% | 0% | $98,864 | 91 | — | — |
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Actually Employable and Won't Spend 10 Years Paying Off Debt
They churn out highly competent engineers who go straight into the workforce, do great work, and don't spend their 20s paying off six-figure student loans.
| # ▲ | University | Location | Degrees | Accept | SAT | Male/Female | Intl | Earnings | ROI | Employ | ||
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| 1 |
San Jose State
San Jose,
CA
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San Jose, CA | 7 | 50% | 71% / 29% | 14% | $109,013 | 99 | — | — |
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Wake Forest
Winston-Salem,
NC
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Winston-Salem, NC | 36 | 18% | 50% / 50% | 3% | $104,028 | 93 | — | — |
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Stony Brook
Stony Brook,
NY
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Stony Brook, NY | 13 | 48% | 77% / 23% | 0% | $95,741 | 97 | 95% | — |
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U. of San Diego
San Diego,
CA
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San Diego, CA | 15 | 54% | 40% / 60% | 0% | $105,066 | 96 | — | — |
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Washington & Lee
Lexington,
VA
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Lexington, VA | 16 | 13% | 69% / 31% | 6% | $103,116 | 94 | — | — |
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Claremont McKenna
Claremont,
CA
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Claremont, CA | 7 | 9% | 100% / 0% | 57% | $109,063 | 97 | — | — |
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Temple
Philadelphia,
PA
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Philadelphia, PA | 6 | 72% | 100% / 0% | 0% | $93,092 | 94 | — | — |
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Boise State
Boise,
ID
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Boise, ID | 21 | 76% | 67% / 33% | 0% | $90,988 | 95 | — | — |
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University at Albany
Albany,
NY
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Albany, NY | 11 | 68% | 91% / 9% | 0% | $90,877 | 95 | — | — |
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Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato,
MN
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Mankato, MN | 39 | 62% | 87% / 13% | 0% | $81,267 | 92 | 97% | — |
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