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The main building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Photo courtesy of MIT |
MIT has held the top position in engineering since the ranking were first introduced in 1990, according to MIT News.
It ranks first across several engineering specialties, including aerospace, materials science, mechanical, chemical, and electrical and computer engineering.
Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley placed second and third.
They also share the top position with MIT in electrical engineering programs.
Among the top 30 institutions, 17 are public universities, while the remainder are private. Tuition fees for master’s programs range from US$17,300 to $68,000 per year.
| Ranking | University | Masters' program tuition and fees (US$/year) |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 64.310 |
| 2 | Stanford University | 67.700 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | 28.200 |
| 4 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 31.200 |
| Purdue University | 29.600 | |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology | 68.000 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 39.300 | |
| University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) | 19.300 | |
| 9 | University of California-San Diego | 28.200 |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon University | 60.300 |
| 11 | Cornell University | 29.500 |
| 12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 34.000 |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) | 66.700 |
| 14 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 17.300 |
| University of California--Los Angeles (Samueli) | 28.200 | |
| 16 | Northwestern University (McCormick) | 23.000/quarter |
| University of Pennsylvania | 51.000 | |
| 18 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) | 2.700/per credit |
| University of Colorado-Boulder | 40.400 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park(Clark) | 1.878/per credit | |
| 21 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) | 2.665/per credit |
| 22 | Duke University (Pratt) | 67.700 |
| Harvard University (Paulson) | 65.500 | |
| University of Washington | 38.100 | |
| 25 | Princeton University | 65.200 |
| Rice University (Brown) | 62.500 | |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 24.100 |
| 28 | North Carolina State University | 31.500 |
| Ohio State University | 43.300 | |
| Pennsylvania State University-University Park | 48.700 | |
| University of California-Santa Barbara | 29.500 |
The U.S. News's 2026 Best Engineering Schools ranking, released on Monday, includes 195 schools.
The evaluation is based on five main indicators, with research activity carrying the highest weight at 50%, followed by quality assessment at 25%, faculty resources at 20%, faculty research output at 10%, and student selectivity at 5%.
