The University of California San Diego was explicitly founded to compete with Caltech in science and engineering, so the bar was set high from the beginning.
Founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of the post Civil War Reconstruction effort to industrialize the South.
Missouri S&T is well-known as an engineering school and has earned accolades for its entrepreneurial spirit and innovative labs.
Stony Brook University is a relatively young public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island some 50 miles east of Manhattan.
Virginia Tech, founded in 1872 and located in beautiful Montgomery County in the New River Valley, is the largest school in Virginia and has over 8,400 students in its engineering school alone.
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest schools in the US, with an enrollment of over 50,000 undergraduate students.
North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, offers a wide range of engineering degrees, from textile engineering to aerospace, with plenty in between.
The University of Utah, founded in 1850 as the University of Deseret, is located in Salt Lake City and has a combined enrollment of over 30,000 students.
UTA, located in Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, is a high research activity school with a heavy emphasis on science and technology.
Colorado State, located in Fort Collins, brings an emphasis on the environment to science and engineering.