2025 Best General Engineering Schools in Tennessee
4Colleges in Tennessee
148Engineering Degrees Awarded
Ranked #96 in popularity, general engineering is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Tennessee to determine which ones were the best for general engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 148 degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Engineering Schools in Tennessee.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the engineering degree levels they offer.
Vanderbilt University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #18 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were about 35 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent year we have data available.
Tennessee Technological University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Tennessee Tech University is a fairly large public university located in the remote town of Cookeville. This university ranks 19th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were approximately 25 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tennessee Tech University in the most recent data year.
The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. UT Chattanooga is a large public university located in the city of Chattanooga. This university ranks 16th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were approximately 17 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UT Chattanooga in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Memphis is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the large city of Memphis, UofM is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #807 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofM is a great university overall.
There were about 20 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UofM in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
