Undergraduate Engineering Best Colleges Financial Aid Comparison
For the academic year 2023-2024, at the best colleges in Undergraduate Engineering program, total 639,800 undergraduate students have awarded grant aid from federal, state, local, and/or institutes. The average amount of the awarded grant aid is $31,632 where the 2025 average tuition & fees is $53,333. For full-time first time undergraduate students (freshmen), 59%% of students (139,353 students) have awarded federal, state, local and/or institutional grant aid.
- For all undergraduate students, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has the highest percent of students awarded grant aid of 89% and University of Washington-Seattle Campus has the lowest graduation rate of 39%.
- For all undergraduate students, Princeton University has the highest amount of grant aid of $62,593 and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has the lowest amount of grant aid of $9,452.
- For first-time full-time students, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has the highest percent of students awarded grant aid of 96% and University of Virginia-Main Campus has the lowest graduation rate of 28%.
- For first-time full-time students, Columbia University in the City of New York has the highest amount of grant aid of $65,173 and Michigan State University has the lowest amount of grant aid of $8,147.
Undergraduate Engineering Best Colleges Financial Aid Comparison
The following table lists the best colleges in Undergraduate Engineering programs. The "-" value in other columns means that the corresponding data has not been reported or the school does not have programs for the values.
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| Rank | College name | Tuition & Fees | All Undergraduate | Full-time First-Time Undergraduate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Students Awarded Grants | Percent of Students Awarded Grants | Average Amount Grant Aid Awarded | Number of Students Awarded Grants | Percent of Students Awarded Grants | Average Amount Grant Aid Awarded | |||
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Private, 4 years four-years | $62,396 ($60,156) | 2,980 | 64% | $55,629 | 654 | 58% | $58,331 |
| 3 | Stanford University Stanford, CA Private, 4 years four-years | $65,910 ($49,617) | 4,866 | 60% | $58,688 | 952 | 55% | $64,164 |
| 47 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA Public, 4 years four-years | $34,484 ($12,058) | 12,926 | 70% | $11,761 | 2,566 | 71% | $13,423 |
| 41 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $47,265 ($15,377) | 18,629 | 57% | $22,996 | 3,369 | 50% | $25,951 |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Private, 4 years four-years | $65,898 ($49,908) | 597 | 61% | $52,266 | 124 | 55% | $60,201 |
| 78 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Public, 4 years four-years | $40,096 ($18,267) | 19,405 | 55% | $16,592 | 3,842 | 48% | $17,524 |
| 44 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Public, 4 years four-years | $63,081 ($18,848) | 16,891 | 52% | $24,478 | 3,850 | 55% | $22,005 |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Private, 4 years four-years | $65,636 ($53,910) | 3,379 | 48% | $43,489 | 837 | 49% | $47,550 |
| 94 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public, 4 years four-years | $28,794 ($9,992) | 16,777 | 43% | $10,024 | 3,627 | 39% | $11,126 |
| 17 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $69,314 ($52,853) | 7,881 | 50% | $56,472 | 1,767 | 51% | $56,741 |
| 57 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Public, 4 years four-years | $44,908 ($11,688) | 20,935 | 51% | $12,383 | 4,198 | 47% | $12,060 |
| 5 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ Private, 4 years four-years | $62,688 ($47,140) | 3,365 | 60% | $62,593 | 904 | 60% | $60,629 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Private, 4 years four-years | $64,730 ($52,170) | 3,667 | 61% | $54,088 | 840 | 60% | $58,456 |
| 13 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL Private, 4 years four-years | $68,322 ($52,678) | 4,819 | 54% | $57,927 | 1,055 | 52% | $64,463 |
| 106 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public, 4 years four-years | $40,124 ($12,995) | 32,741 | 57% | $11,036 | 6,970 | 61% | $11,607 |
| 104 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA Public, 4 years four-years | $37,764 ($15,948) | 15,816 | 52% | $9,452 | 3,938 | 55% | $8,542 |
| 42 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $46,121 ($14,233) | 17,820 | 55% | $21,007 | 3,144 | 49% | $22,441 |
| 79 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Public, 4 years four-years | $42,103 ($11,603) | 15,191 | 42% | $14,133 | 4,193 | 49% | $11,350 |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $70,517 ($51,640) | 4,983 | 55% | $52,519 | 777 | 52% | $65,173 |
| 11 | Duke University Durham, NC Private, 4 years four-years | $68,758 ($53,500) | 3,447 | 52% | $53,004 | 724 | 41% | $59,327 |
| 169 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public, 4 years four-years | $41,790 ($20,644) | 20,396 | 49% | $13,716 | 3,331 | 36% | $11,577 |
| 90 | University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $47,676 ($15,788) | 18,879 | 57% | $21,788 | 4,147 | 64% | $24,176 |
| 84 | University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD Public, 4 years four-years | $41,186 ($11,809) | 15,040 | 50% | $12,278 | 3,017 | 52% | $12,142 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Private, 4 years four-years | $68,686 ($53,534) | 5,731 | 51% | $49,451 | 1,160 | 48% | $59,721 |
| 175 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH Public, 4 years four-years | $40,022 ($13,244) | 28,677 | 62% | $11,931 | 5,109 | 64% | $11,791 |
| 15 | Rice University Houston, TX Private, 4 years four-years | $61,247 ($45,608) | 2,845 | 63% | $50,264 | 687 | 57% | $53,526 |
| 176 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Public, 4 years four-years | $38,362 ($17,214) | 19,909 | 51% | $11,363 | 4,183 | 62% | $11,807 |
| 28 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Private, 4 years four-years | $71,647 ($54,259) | 14,187 | 69% | $44,920 | 2,319 | 68% | $43,208 |
| 102 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA Public, 4 years four-years | $43,209 ($12,973) | 14,148 | 39% | $15,799 | 3,125 | 43% | $14,390 |
| 2 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA Private, 4 years four-years | $61,676 ($48,949) | 4,562 | 49% | $55,827 | 932 | 57% | $64,942 |
| 110 | North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC Public, 4 years four-years | $32,847 ($8,799) | 13,483 | 51% | $11,521 | 2,778 | 50% | $11,811 |
| 119 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $47,692 ($15,804) | 18,621 | 59% | $19,877 | 3,219 | 51% | $21,258 |
| 376 | University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO Public, 4 years four-years | $42,970 ($15,214) | 15,309 | 49% | $11,665 | 3,772 | 54% | $10,838 |
| 677 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public, 4 years four-years | $33,139 ($12,223) | 50,588 | 77% | $12,396 | 13,371 | 89% | $11,992 |
| 77 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY Private, 4 years four-years | $64,078 ($52,305) | 5,225 | 89% | $39,546 | 1,921 | 96% | $43,994 |
| 75 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL Public, 4 years four-years | $28,659 ($6,381) | 28,738 | 83% | $9,719 | 5,789 | 88% | $10,724 |
| 12 | Brown University Providence, RI Private, 4 years four-years | $71,312 ($53,419) | 3,638 | 48% | $56,234 | 879 | 51% | $58,378 |
| 58 | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Private, 4 years four-years | $66,608 ($47,500) | 5,004 | 83% | $36,077 | 1,340 | 86% | $40,197 |
| 91 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO Public, 4 years four-years | $45,824 ($21,914) | 4,813 | 84% | $10,790 | 1,414 | 94% | $11,204 |
| 27 | Northeastern University Boston, MA Private, 4 years four-years | $66,162 ($49,497) | 10,527 | 65% | $34,044 | 1,831 | 73% | $46,558 |
| 129 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $46,640 ($14,752) | 18,367 | 64% | $20,868 | 3,685 | 65% | $21,533 |
| 100 | University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Public, 4 years four-years | $47,332 ($15,444) | 13,285 | 57% | $19,022 | 2,480 | 50% | $21,732 |
| 48 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA Public, 4 years four-years | $61,591 ($23,118) | 7,278 | 42% | $26,492 | 1,122 | 28% | $29,675 |
| 14 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Private, 4 years four-years | $67,498 ($47,664) | 4,716 | 66% | $53,335 | 1,064 | 66% | $57,723 |
| 6 | Yale University New Haven, CT Private, 4 years four-years | $67,250 ($51,400) | 3,679 | 55% | $60,846 | 837 | 54% | $59,076 |
| 37 | Boston University Boston, MA Private, 4 years four-years | $68,102 ($52,082) | 8,920 | 48% | $50,703 | 1,804 | 50% | $55,080 |
| 145 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public, 4 years four-years | $44,850 ($18,079) | 28,598 | 73% | $9,950 | 9,276 | 96% | $8,147 |
| 21 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Private, 4 years four-years | $65,025 ($51,495) | 5,445 | 61% | $47,922 | 1,195 | 59% | $51,128 |
| 22 | Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO Private, 4 years four-years | $65,790 ($51,533) | 3,570 | 44% | $53,057 | 869 | 48% | $61,036 |
| 377 | Iowa State University Ames, IA Public, 4 years four-years | $28,881 ($10,787) | 18,507 | 73% | $9,680 | 4,366 | 77% | $10,718 |
| Average | $53,333 | 639,800 | 58% | $31,632 | 139,353 | 59% | $34,023 | |