Which are the best colleges in USA for pursuing masters in mechanical engineering?

Question

particularly for design engineering.

Answer 1

These are the best colleges in the United States, you can choose near to your place

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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