Not all colleges and universities with engineering programs offer civil engineering. (That's why you won't find Caltech—one of the nation'stop engineering schools—on this list.) However, all of the schools below have excellent programs in mechanical engineering: Carnegie Mellon University(Pittsbur...
Students should also look at the strength of a school’s alumni, experts say. This can include morehistorical alumnilike former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who graduated from Howard's law school and in 1954 fought to desegregate public schools in the landmark Supreme Court ca...