2024 Best General Engineering Schools in Washington
3Colleges in Washington
36Engineering Degrees Awarded
General Engineering is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #96 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for general engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 36 degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Engineering Schools in Washington.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for General Engineering in Washington
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Gonzaga University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general engineering. Gonzaga is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Spokane. A Best Colleges rank of #172 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Gonzaga is a great university overall.
There were roughly 15 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Gonzaga in the most recent data year.
Seattle Pacific University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general engineering. Located in the large city of Seattle, SPU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 10th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were about 13 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at SPU in the most recent year we have data available.
Washington State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general engineering. Wazzu is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Pullman. A Best Colleges rank of #175 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Wazzu is a great university overall.
There were about 4 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Wazzu in the most recent data year.
Walla Walla University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Walla Walla U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of College Place. This university ranks 19th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were roughly 4 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Walla Walla U in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
