Some of the best engineering schools in the world serve as feeder programs for the best technology companies out there, like Facebook, Google, and Apple.
So, which school is most likely to land you the job you want?
Over the past few weeks, we've conducted a survey to find out the true ranking of the top 50 schools. The top school in the world, from our survey, is the California Institute of Technology.
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All these schools have comparable high-quality academics, smart professors, and great campuses. But when it comes to figuring out the value of an engineering school, there's only one thing that really matters: The amount the school will help your future career.
Of our 723 respondents to the survey, nearly all (91%) said they had a computer science, engineering or equivalent degree.
The two most important things that went into choosing an engineering school were the skills and knowledge they acquired in school (73.9%) and the brand value of the school (18.8%).
The majority of the respondents (66.8%) studied and applied the C, C++ or C# programming languages, with Java following as a close second (40.8%).
Most engineers who responded were either research scientists (10.8%), mobile developers (8.9%) or mechanical engineers (13.3%).
Here's the methodology:
- Our initial list was compiled by canvassing engineers, industry professionals and entrepreneurs who work at some of the most popular technology companies.
- We asked respondents to grade schools on a 1 (not valuable) to 5 (most valuable) scale. The score is the average of all responses across those scales.
- Each survey included grades for at least 10 schools. Respondents could also write in responses to the survey for schools that were not included. Some write-ins with overwhelming response were included in the rankings.
- We parsed LinkedIn to find the top employers for each school, and they are in order of greatest number of graduates employed per school.
50. San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University scored a 2.03 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating.
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (computer science): NR
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (engineering): NR
Top Employers: Oracle, Cisco Systems, Apple
49. Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University scored a 2.08 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating.
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (computer science): NR
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (engineering): NR
Top Employers: Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe
48. San Jose State University
San Jose State University scored a 2.14 out of 5 on Business Insider's rating.
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (computer science): NR
U.S. New & World Report Ranking (engineering): NR
Top Employers: Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Oracle, Intel
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