Top Schools in Aerospace Engineering Top Aerospace Engineering Schools in the U.S. Ranking School Name Location 1 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 3 Stanford University Stanford, CA 4 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 5 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 6 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 7 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 8 University of Texas–Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX 9 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 10 University of Maryland–College Park (Clark) College Park, MD 11 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 12 University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO 13 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA 14 Texas A&M University–College Station (Look) College Station, TX 15 University of California–Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA 16 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 17 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 18 University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA 19 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 20 University of California–San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA 21 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 22 Ohio State University Columbus, OH 23 University of Washington Seattle, WA 24 Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ 25 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 26 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 27 Iowa State University Ames, IA 28 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 29 University of California–Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA 30 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 31 University of California–Davis Davis, CA 32 Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management Wright Patterson AFB, OH 33 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 34 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Next: Top Agricultural Engineering Schools