2025 Best General Engineering Schools in Illinois

General Engineering is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #96 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for general engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 435 degrees in general engineering annually.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall General Engineering Schools List

General Engineering Rankings by Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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More information on how we come up with our rankings can be found here: College Factual's Data Methodology.

Best Schools for General Engineering in Illinois

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Illinois Schools in Engineering

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in general engineering needs to look into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UIUC is a very large public university located in the small city of Champaign.More information about a degree in general engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

Olivet Nazarene University
Bourbonnais, IL

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

51 Engineering Degrees Awarded

5.9% Growth in Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in general engineering has to check out Olivet Nazarene University. Olivet Nazarene is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Bourbonnais.More information about a degree in general engineering from Olivet Nazarene University

Best General Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best General Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	939	158
Michigan	915	383
Indiana	737	231
Wisconsin	672	199

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General Engineering Related Rankings by Major

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.