Competitive Graduate Engineering Programs
A master’s or Ph.D. in engineering can open the door to several industries, such as infrastructure design, aircraft development and agriculture.
Getting into a graduate engineering program that prepares students for these fields, however, may not be easy. Here are the 10 graduate engineering programs where the lowest percentage of applicants are accepted.
10. Vanderbilt University (TN)
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 15.6 percent
U.S. News rank: 35 (tie)
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9. University of Cincinnati
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 15.4 percent
U.S. News rank: 81 (tie)
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7 (tie). University of California–Berkeley
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 14.4 percent
U.S. News rank: 3
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7 (tie). University of California–Santa Barbara
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 14.4 percent
U.S. News rank: 23 (tie)
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6. Yale University (CT)
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 14 percent
U.S. News rank: 35 (tie)
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5. University of Wisconsin–Madison
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 11.3 percent
U.S. News rank: 14 (tie)
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4. Princeton University (NJ)
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 11.2 percent
U.S. News rank: 18
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3. Harvard University (MA)
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 9.9 percent
U.S. News rank: 20
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2. Michigan State University
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 9.3 percent
U.S. News rank: 49 (tie)
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1. California Institute of Technology
Acceptance rate for fall 2014: 8.6 percent
U.S. News rank: 5
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