2025 Best General Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
197Bachelor's Degrees
General Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #134 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 197 bachelor's degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of general engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges 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 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.
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 the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Engineering in the New England Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for general engineering students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Engineering
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in general engineering has to take a look at Olin College. Located in the suburb of Needham, Olin College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general engineering from Olin College
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).