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10 World’s Top Engineering Schools 2007

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MIT, US

MIT Engineering CampusMIT was founded in 1861 which combined polytechnic models in Europe, especially German and French. In World War II (WWII), MIT played a key role as a research and development center for defense-related technologies which included radar, missile guidance and military computer application.

Later, it evolved to provide other field of courses that encompass economics, linguistic, political science and management. However, technology and engineering remain as the university’s strongest legacy.


2. University of California, Berkeley, US

University of California Berkeley Engineering CourseThe university, often referred as ‘Berkeley’ or ‘Cal’ was established about 140 years ago as a result of a merger between 2 private colleges. Similar to MIT, Berkeley also produced some smart engineers who were involved in the World War II and developed the atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. The Berkeley students are not only good academically but they also have reputation to produce excellent sportsmen and competitive athletes. To date, their athletes have won an astounding figure of more than 100 medals in Olympic Games.

Malaysian top-notch swimmer, Alex Lim received his sports degree in Berkeley. In 2002, Alex became agonizingly close to winning a 50 meter back-stoke in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom, losing by 0.02 second to the world champion and multiple-record holder, Ian Thorpe, or popularly nick named ‘The Torpedo’.


3. Stanford University, US

Stanford Engineering Field and CoursesAnother American institution, which was interesting enough, built on a horse farm. It was formed by a California Governor, Leland Stanford and his wife, in tribute to their son, who died of typhoid at a tender age of 18. In the earlier years, the number of female students were capped with certain quota, as Stanford’s wife felt that large number of female students would violate the honor to their son’s tribute.

Technically, Stanford University is considered to have the world’s largest campus, as it occupies the largest land area. The institution enrolls between 14,000 to 18,000 students at one time.


4. California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), US

California Technology Engineering FieldCalifornia Institute of Technology or more popularly known as Caltech is a private institution with strong reputation in engineering and natural sciences. It even houses a NASA laboratory in the campus which oversees the design work and operation of unmanned space probes. The size of the students is considered relatively small, with only over 2000 students occupying the university at one time, but this small number is a bunch of talented students. The institution is also known to have produced many Nobel winning researchers and professors.


5. University of Cambridge, UK

Cambridge University EngineeringThe best engineering school in England and United Kingdom. Often, Cambridge and Oxford Universities compete head to head on general reputation but when it comes to technical field, Cambridge is always ahead of its rival.

Ironically, Cambridge was formed by a group of scholars who left Oxford University, after a dispute with local town folks. Every year, the institution accepts between approximately 5-10 Malaysians for enrollment in various courses and colleges, with many of them eventually become the country’s think tanks and corporate hotshots.


6. Imperial College, UK

Imperial College of Engineering, Science and MedicineImperial College officially goes by the long name of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and is located near the heart of one of the world’s most expensive cities, London, and to be exact, South Kensington. It used to belong to the University of London constituent before but today it is no longer the case.

The college also houses the prominent Royal Albert Hall, where the country’s top singer, Siti Nurhaliza, used to perform. The hall is used for the graduation ceremony of students. Imperial is known to be one of the most selective universities in the world, having recorded a consistent acceptance rate of well below 20%.


7. Carnegie Mellon University, US

Carnegie Mellon EngineeringLocated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon was founded by Andrew Carnegie, the famous industrialist and philanthropist in 1900. For many years, the university has been consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world. On approximation, about 70% of the students admitted to the university are in the top 10% of their high school classes, while their engineering and computer science courses are considered the best in its class.




8. Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Georgia Tech Engineering CoursesGeorgia Institute, or more commonly known as Georgia Tech, is one of the few public universities in the top list. From only 2 buildings during its formation, the university has grown into providing hundreds of courses to close to 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students, as well as becoming a well-known center with very active research activities.

As a matter of fact, many start up companies have been born out of research works initiated by Georgia Tech, with many of them went on to produce many patented technologies.


9. University of Tokyo, Japan

University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo belongs to a ring of a so-called the Seven Universities, which refers to seven top public institutions of higher education in Japan. Uni of Tokyo tops the rank, with Kyoto University considered its biggest rival.

University of Tokyo is one of the only two Asian universities in the world’s top 10 rank in the field of engineering and technology. At the moment, more than 30,000 students are enrolled in the campus, with less than 10% of them foreigners,.


10. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

National University of Singapore EngineeringWhile Malaysia embarrassingly does not have any of its university even in the top 200 list of world’s best university, the neighboring Singaporeans can jump in joy and delight.

Ranked in 10th means National University of Singapore, the oldest and largest university in the country, gets the better of Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and so on.

Apart from its main campus, NUS also have colleges in Philadelphia, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Stockholm and Bangalore.

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Name of the Institution Country
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT USA
Stanford University USA
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor USA
University of California - Berkeley USA
Pennsylvania State University - University Park USA
Georgia Institute Technology USA
University of Texas - Austin USA
University of California - San Diego USA
Purdue University - West Lafayette USA
University of California - Santa Barbara USA
University of Southern California USA
University of Maryland - College Park USA
Carnegie Mellon University USA
Cornell University USA
University of Cambridge UK
Tohoku University Japan
California Inst Tech USA
University of Toronto Canada
Northwestern University USA
University of Wisconsin - Madison USA
North Carolina State University - Raleigh USA
University of Washington - Seattle USA
Princeton University USA
Kyoto University Japan
Ohio State University - Columbus USA
Imperial College London UK
Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne Switzerland
Tokyo Inst Tech Japan
University of Florida USA
Texas A&M University - College Station USA
National University Singapore Singapore
University of California - Los Angeles USA
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities USA
Harvard University USA
University of Pennsylvania USA
Hong Kong University Science & Technology Hong Kong
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel
Osaka University Japan
University of Massachusetts - Amherst USA
University of Oxford UK
University of Colorado - Boulder USA
University of California - Davis USA
University of Manchester UK
McGill University Canada
University of Waterloo Canada
Virginia Tech USA
University of California - Irvine USA
National Chiao Tung University Taiwan
Duke University USA
Arizona State University - Tempe USA
Case Western Reserve University USA
Chalmers University Tech Sweden
City University Hong Kong Hong Kong
Kyushu University Japan
Michigan State University USA
Nanyang Tech University Singapore
Polytechnic Inst Turin Italy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst USA
Rice University USA
Seoul National University South Korea
Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland
Tech University Denmark Denmark
Tokyo University Japan
Tsing Hua University China
University of Bordeaux 1 France
University of Bristol UK
University of British Columbia Canada
University of Delaware USA
University of Leuven Belgium
University of Melbourne Australia
University of New South Wales Australia
University of Sheffield UK
University of Sydney Australia
University of Twente Netherlands
University of Virginia USA
Boston University USA
Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong
Delft University Tech Netherlands
Hokkaido University Japan
Indian Inst Science India
Iowa State University USA
Johns Hopkins University USA
Korea Advanced Inst Science & Technology South Korea
Lund University Sweden
National Taiwan University Taiwan
National Tsing Hua University Taiwan
Pohang University Science & Technology South Korea
Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
Tech University Munich Germany
Tel Aviv University Israel
University of Alberta Canada
University of California - Riverside USA
University of Central Florida USA
University of Leeds UK
University of Louvain Belgium
University of Montreal Canada
University of Naples Federico II Italy
University of Newcastle Australia
University of Paris 06 France
University of Southampton UK
University of Utah USA
University of Utrecht Netherlands
Uppsala University Sweden
Washington University - St. Louis USA
Zhejiang University China

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Best Universities in America(USA)


S.No University/College
1 Massachusetts Inst of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 University of California-Berkeley
4 California Institute Technology
5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6 Georgia Institute of Technology
7 University of Michigan
8 Cornell University
9 Carnegie Mellon University
10 University of Texas at Austin
11 Purdue University
12 University of California- San Diego
13 University of California- Los Angeles
14 Texas A&M University
15 Princeton University
16 Pennsylvania State University
17 University of Wisconsin-Madison
18 University of Maryland College Park
19 Harvard University
20 University of California-Santa Barbara
21 University of Southern California
22 University of Minnesota
23 Northwestern University
24 Johns Hopkins University
25 Virginia Polytech Inst & State University
26 Ohio State University
27 University of Virginia
28 Columbia University (FU)
29 University of Pennsylvania
30 Duke University
31 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
32 North Carolina State University
33 Rice University
34 University of Washington
35 University of Florida
36 University of California-Davis
37 Washington University -St. Louis
38 Yale University
39 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
40 Michigan State University
41 Iowa State University
42 University of Arizona
43 University of California-Irvine
44 University of Colorado-Boulder
45 Case Western Reserve University
46 Rutgers State University-New Brunswick
47 University of Notre Dame
48 Lehigh university
49 Northeastern University
50 University of Rochester
51 University of Delaware
52 University of Iowa
53 Brown University
54 Arizona State University
55 Drexel University

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Columbia Business School
Entering Class of 2006  Size  726
Average age at entry 28
Age range 21–43
Average years of work experience 5

GMAT range
(middle 80%) 660–760

Undergraduate GPA
(middle 80%) 2.9–3.8
Women 35%
Non-U.S. citizens 42%
Minorities 21%


Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
80% of our students fell into the score range of 590 - 710. For the paper based version the minimum score we accept is 590, for the computer version, the minimum is 243.

Yale University MBA Class 2008 Profile

Average GMAT Score 701
Middle 80% range 640-760
Average Quantitative 46 (79th percentile)
Mid 80% GMAT Quantitative 41-50
Average Verbal 40 (91st percentile)
Mid 80% GMAT Verbal 35-46
Average College GPA 3.4
Average TOEFL 657

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