Best Mechanical Engineering Colleges in New Hampshire

Thayer School of Engineering

Walk into Intro to Engineering at this Ivy League school and you’re immediately tasked with collaborating with classmates to design a device or system that solves a real-life problem, such as saving energy or purifying water. Some ideas produced over the years have been so promising that they’ve been patented and marketed! Encouragement to think in novel ways continues throughout one’s time at the Thayer School of Engineering, which purposely does not divide itself into departments in order to foster cross-disciplinary innovation. This team-centered, free thinking approach to engineering has helped Thayer attract a large number of women. Females received 42 percent of the engineering degrees granted to the class of 2015; the national average is 19 percent. In line with broadening horizons, most engineering undergrads leave Dartmouth with two degrees: a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of engineering. Thayer also offers master’s programs and the nation’s first PhD Innovation Program – five years of financial support to earn a doctorate and build an enterprise based on technical innovation.