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Engineering (all) at Harvard

Harvard graduates about 87 engineering majors a year, 5% of its graduating class. That puts it 27th of 434 schools we score for engineering, a standout program at 90 out of 100. Research spending in the field runs about $106 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

90/100Standout#27 of 434 for engineering →
Graduates a year875% of the class
Research in the field$106Ma year, NSF
Admit rate4%whole school
SAT middle 50%1490–1580whole school

Around Harvard

Happened to catch the glow of the evening sun reflecting on Memorial Hall today.
Memorial Hall, Perfect Evening Light (6670591133)Photo: Tim Sackton from Somerville, MA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
A rack for locking electric scooters outside Cabot Science Library at Harvard Un
Electric scooter rack outside Cabot Science Library Harvard Feb 2025Photo: 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0 · source
Camera location42° 22′ 35.43″ N, 71° 06′ 57.87″ W View this and other nearby ima
Gregorian telescope circa 1735 in Putnam Gallery, 2009-11-24Photo: Sage Ross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Person in a wheelchair entering an inbound Red Line train at Harvard Square
Wheelchair user on the Red Line at Harvard station, June 2012jpgPhoto: ArnoldReinhold · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Where engineering happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Engineering Sciences Lab, Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 130 · Dorm 62 · Student housing 22 · Arts 6 · Library 6 · Chapel 4.

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Nearby in the engineering ranking

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 90
  2. United States Naval Academy 90
  3. Lehigh University 90
  4. Yale University 90
  5. University of Maryland, College Park 89
  6. University of Washington 89
  7. University of California, Los Angeles 89
  8. Case Western Reserve University 89

Other strong majors at Harvard

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Harvard with every school we score in engineering. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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