2025 Best General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
61Doctor's Degrees
General Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #54 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 61 doctor's degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general engineering.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Engineering
One of 2 majors within the General Engineering area of study, General Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).