General Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #116 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 60 bachelor's degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt general engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Engineering in New York
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general engineering.
Top New York Schools for a Bachelor's in Engineering
It is hard to beat Stony Brook University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general engineering. Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a very large student population.
Those general engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University receive $3,270 more than the typical engineering graduate.
College of Staten Island CUNY is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in general engineering. CSI is a large public college located in the city of Staten Island.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the engineering program make around $48,898 in the first couple years of their career.
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).
