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Cleveland, Ohio · private research · ~5,800 undergraduates

One line: engineering school that hides inside a research university.

Three of your answers point here directly. You ranked teaching above research reputation; the Case Engineering core is graded against your own learning, not curved against your peers. You wanted "small enough to know the faculty," and the upper-division CS sequences average around twenty-five students. You said you'd take a school that gave you co-op time in industry; Case's required research or co-op requirement is the cleanest version of that on the list.

Troy, New York · private engineering-focused · ~6,400 undergraduates

One line: built around problems, not survey courses.

You answered yes to "I want to spend more class hours building than listening," and RPI is the school on the list that has the highest ratio of project-based contact hours to lecture hours through the second year. The CS department's required Game Programming and Networks labs both ship code or a working prototype as the final deliverable; the Multidisciplinary Design Lab pairs you with industry teams from sophomore year on.

Worcester, Massachusetts · private engineering-focused · ~5,200 undergraduates

One line: a curriculum built around three real projects, not a thesis.

WPI sequences the degree around three projects (Humanities, Interactive Qualifying Project, and Major Qualifying Project). You answered that you wanted "credit for things I make, not just things I take," and that grammar is closer to how WPI organizes the major than any other school on the list. The IQP runs at an external project center, often overseas, and replaces a semester of conventional classes.

Stony Brook, New York · public research · ~17,000 undergraduates

One line: the largest CS program on this list, at a public price you'll actually pay.

You answered "I want a CS major where the elective list is twenty courses long, not five." Stony Brook's CS catalog is among the broadest among public flagships, with concentrations in systems, security, and game programming taught by full-time faculty. You also answered yes to the affordability filter; SUNY out-of-state runs roughly $30k all-in, an order of magnitude lower than the other four matches.

Terre Haute, Indiana · private engineering-focused · ~2,000 undergraduates

One line: the smallest serious engineering school in the country.

You ranked teaching priority highest; Rose-Hulman has been at or near the top of the USNWR undergraduate engineering teaching list for twenty consecutive years. Class sizes in core engineering courses average ten to fifteen students. You answered cautious about "rural campus"; we surfaced this anyway because every other answer pointed here strongly enough that the location concern read like the one to revisit.