What are the good colleges for studying aeronautical engineering?

Answer 1

To start, here's the USNews rankings for you. Aero eng as an undergraduate is ranked in 2 groups. First group is colleges/uni's without a PhD program, 2nd group is colleges/uni's that have a PhD program.

W/out PhD

1. Embry Riddle Aeronautical U. (FL)

2. United States Air Force Acad. (CO)*

3. Embry Riddle Aeronautical U.-Prescott (AZ)

United States Naval Academy (MD)*

5. St. Louis University

With PhD

1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology

2. Georgia Institute of Technology *

3. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor *

4. California Institute of Technology

Purdue Univ.-West Lafayette (IN)*

6. Stanford University (CA)

7. Princeton University (NJ)

8. U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign *

9. University of Texas-Austin *

10. Univ. of Maryland-College Park *

11. Texas A&M Univ.-College Station *

12. Pennsylvania State U.-University Park *

University of Washington *

14. Cornell University (NY)

15. Univ. of California-Los Angeles *

16. Virginia Tech *

17. University of California-Berkeley *

University of Colorado-Boulder *

19. University of Florida *

On connections with NASA, one investigation route would be to go to the aero faculty pages of any target school & see what the faculty's research interests and papers look like....a NASA funding source should be visible.

Also, there should be a public record of research funding by NASA. I'd bet a few phone calls could get you pretty close to having a list with professors & subjects, if that's not on the web already. If I find such a thing, I'll let you know.

Or try this:

a few NASA links for you to explore, no convenient lists of best-connected aero eng schools yet, but I bet you can get a glimpse of some research providers from these sites.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forrese...res/index.html

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/STI_Program_Plan_2005.pdf

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/star0524.pdf

Also, the NASA research labs, e.g., Ames & Langley, will have their preferred researchers, probably some being relatively local (like Stanford for Ames)....suggest you study these labs, get to know which each does, and figure out which colleges support those that interest you.