The Wall Street Journal announced their Best Colleges in the U.S. for 2025—a list of 500 schools. Milwaukee School of Engineering is #165 in the U.S. and third highest in Wisconsin.

View the entire list: https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/best-colleges-2025 (login required). 

Areas within the evaluation where MSOE really excelled are: Graduate Salary (nearly a perfect score), Years To Pay Off Net Price, and Learning Facilities.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “The WSJ/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking was developed and executed in collaboration with our research partners College Pulse and Statista. The ranking scores colleges based on the following components. The weight each component is given in the ranking is indicated as a percentage. Throughout, we use the latest data available for analysis.”

Student outcomes (70%):

• Salary impact (33%)
• Years to pay off net price (17%)
• Graduation rate impact (20%)

Learning environment (20%):

• Learning opportunities (4%)
• Preparation for career (4%)
• Learning facilities (4%)
• Recommendation score (4%)
• Character score (4%)

Diversity (10%)

• Opportunities to interact with students from different backgrounds (5%)
• Ethnic diversity (1.7%)
• Inclusion of students with lower family earnings (1.7%)
• Inclusion of students with disabilities (1.7%)