2025 Best General Engineering Science Doctor's Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
124Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in general engineering science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #142 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Engineering Science Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 124 doctor's degrees in general engineering science during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Engineering Science School for Your Doctor's Degree
The engineering science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general engineering science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general engineering science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general engineering science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general engineering science students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Engineering Science Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Science Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Notes and References
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The engineering science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
