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Mechanical Engineering
Ranked in 2014, 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.

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Overall Engineering School Program Data

Rank

#26

School name

Score

Tuition

Total
graduate
engineering
enrollment

Average GRE
quantitative score
(master's and Ph.D.
students) (new test)

Engineering school
research
expenditures (20122013 fiscal year)

Columbia University
(Fu Foundation)

3.5

$39,360 per year (full-time)

2,827

165

$154,072,000

3.5

$47,100 per year (full-time)

981

163

$90,262,000

3.5

$38,888 per year (full-time)

449

165

$49,493,812

3.5

$38,260 per year (full-time)

760

164

$54,142,841

3.5

$12,991 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,093

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

765

165

$112,285,301

3.5

$12,642 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,035

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

2,739

162

$63,934,000

3.5

$28,768 per year (full-time)

1,609

165

$112,899,355

3.5

$29,448 per year (full-time)

4,857

163

$181,224,758

3.4

$13,109 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,211

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,130

163

$78,274,924

3.4

$12,960 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,142

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,623

161

$85,092,712

3.3

$38,588 per year (full-time)

633

164

$43,377,000

3.3

$9,046 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,304 per

1,161

160

$79,735,000

New York, NY

#26

Duke University
(Pratt)
Durham, NC

#26

#26

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Rice University
(Brown)
Houston, TX

#26

University of
California
Santa
Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

#26

#26

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

University of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

#26

University of
Southern California
(Viterbi)
Los Angeles, CA

#34

University of
California
Davis
Davis, CA

#34

University of
Colorado
Boulder
Boulder, CO

#36

Case Western
Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Iowa State

#36
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Iowa State
University

3.3

$9,046 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,304 per

year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,161

160

$79,735,000

3.3

$621 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,220 per

credit (out-of-state, full-time)

897

N/A

$51,846,928

3.3

$36,500 per year (full-time)

196

164

$28,737,578

3.2

$7,173 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,511 per

year (out-of-state, full-time)

2,929

163

$160,816,327

3.2

$43,980 per year (full-time)

484

163

$41,217,476

3.1

$10,300 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,286

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

3,136

162

$77,847,532

3.1

$1,300 per credit (full-time)

826

163

$22,441,305

3.1

$15,552 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,704

1,162

163

$61,702,000

Ames, IA

#36

Michigan State
University
East Lansing, MI

#36

#40

Yale University
New Haven, CT

North Carolina
State University
Raleigh, NC

#40

University of Notre
Dame
Notre Dame, IN

#42

Arizona State
University (Fulton)
Tempe, AZ

#42

Lehigh University
(Rossin)
Bethlehem, PA

#42

Rutgers, the State

University of New
Jersey
New
Brunswick

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

Piscataw ay, NJ

#42

University of
California
Irvine
(Samueli)

3.1

$13,812 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,914

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,325

163

$87,896,000

3.1

$14,358 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,682

per year (out-of-state, full-time)

655

162

$73,175,378

3.1

$1,747 per credit (full-time)

495

163

$71,807,000

3.1

$44,100 per year (full-time)

879

163

$22,313,000

3.0

$45,445 per year (full-time)

291

163

$21,103,639

3.0

$29,295 per year (full-time)

1,146

160

$36,228,000

Irvine, CA

#42

University of
Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

#42

Vanderbilt
University
Nashville, TN

#42

Washington
University in St.
Louis
St. Louis, MO

#49

Dartmouth College
(Thayer)
Hanover, NH

#49

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Philadelphia, PA

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