Seema : 'Trends change...univs r very finicky. So don't choose which univs to apply to, purely on the basis of previous years records.'

U.S. News Ranking of top 50 Engineering colleges for 2001:

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mitgrad@mit.edu Stanford University (CA) ckgaa@forsythe.stanford.edu University of California-Berkeley EE: & CS: gradadm@eecs.berkeley.edu Georgia Institute of Technology preapp online University of Michigan–Ann Arbor preapp online California Institute of Technology gradofc@cco.caltech.edu University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign EE: & CE: application@ece.uiuc.edu CS: academic@cs.uiuc.edu Carnegie Mellon University (PA) EE: & CE: apps@ece.cmu.edu Cornell University (NY) preapp online Purdue University–West Lafayette (IN) EE: & CE: maslin@ecn.purdue.edu CS: grad-info@cs.purdue.edu University of Texas–Austin adgrd@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu University of Southern California gradapp@enroll1.usc.edu Texas A&M University-College Station eapo@tamu.edu University of Wisconsin–Madison preapp online University of California-San Diego EE: previte@ece.ucsd.edu CS: & CE:preapp online Princeton University (NJ) EE: preapp online CS: gradinfo@cs.princeton.edu Penn State University-University Park gadm@psu.edu University of Maryland-College Park EE: eneegrad@deans.umd.edu CS: cmscgrad@deans.umd.edu Northwestern University (IL) gradapp@nwu.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) grad-services@rpi.edu University of California-Los Angeles diane@ea.ucla.edu Ohio State University admissions@osu.edu University of Minnesota–Twin Cities EE: & CE: graduate_studies@ece.umn.edu CS: dgs@cs.umn.edu Johns Hopkins University (MD) grad_adm@jhu.edu Harvard University (MA) adm@hugsas.harvard.edu University of California-Santa Barbara engrdean@engineering.ucsb.edu Virginia Tech mcpherso@vt.edu North Carolina State University graduate_admissions@ncsu.edu Rice University (TX) deng@rice.edu University of Colorado-Boulder EE: & CE: pamw@schof.colorado.edu CS: cs-gradinfo@cs.colorado.edu Columbia University (Fu Foundation)(NY) seasgradmit@columbia.edu University of Washington CS: grad-admissions@cs.washington.edu EE: grad@ee.washington.edu Duke University (NC) grad-admissions@duke.edu University of Pennsylvania engadmis@seas.upenn.edu University of Florida admissions@eng.ufl.edu University of California-Davis EE: & CE: gradinfo@ece.ucdavis.edu CS: gradinfo@cs.ucdavis.edu University of Virginia EE: eegrad@virginia.edu CS: inquiry@cs.virginia.edu Case Western Reserve University (OH) grad@b63810.student.cwru.edu Rutgers–New Brunswick (NJ) graduateadmissions@rutgers.edu Iowa State University preapp online Lehigh University (PA) ineas@lehigh.edu Washington University (MO) gradengineering@seas.wustl.edu Michigan State University kreh@egr.msu.edu University of Arizona gradadm@lorax.admin.arizona.edu University of Rochester (NY) EE: & CE: gradinfo@ece.rochester.edu CS: jomarie@cs.rochester.edu Yale University graduate.admissions@yale.edu University of Delaware gradadmissions@mvs.udel.edu University of New Mexico EE: & CE: gradinfo@eece.unm.edu CS: joann@cs.unm.edu Arizona State University asuengr@asu.edu University of Massachusetts–Amherst gradapp@umassp.edu