2015 Best Graduate Schools Preview: Top 10 Engineering Schools

Thinking about applying to graduate school? Whether you're interested in pursuing a graduate degree in engineering, or attending law school or business school, there are some big decisions to make. To help students find the right school for them, U.S. News & World Report surveys more than 1,300 graduate schools and programs and ranks them according to our methodology.

Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2015 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

U.S. News surveyed 212 schools granting doctoral degrees in engineering. In alphabetical order, here are the top 10 highest-ranked engineering schools.

School (name) (state)

California Institute of Technology

Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Purdue University--West Lafayette (IN)

Stanford University (CA)

University of California--Berkeley

University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

University of Texas--Austin (Cockrell)

The actual ranking and score of these and other graduate schools will be available March 11, 2014, on usnews.com. Use the #BestGradSchools hashtag to continue the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.

For more in-depth rankings, searchable data and an expanded directory of programs, sign up for the U.S. News Engineering School Compass .