U.S. News and World Report's Top Engineering Schools of 2012

U.S. News and World Report have released their rankings for the nation's top engineering graduate schools. MIT in Cambridge, MA tops the list. Second place went to Stanford University, followed by University of California   - Berkeley in third. The rankings are based on several factors including average GRE quantitative scores, research expenditures per faculty member, and overall acceptance rate.

The top 10 are as follows:

1. MIT (Cambridge, MA)
2. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
3. University of California -- Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
4. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
5. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
6. University of Illinois -- Champaign/Urbana (Urbana, IL)
7. Carnegie Melon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
8. University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
9. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
10. Purdue University -- West Lafayette (West Lafayette, IN)


To see the entire list of rankings, click HERE!