Business Insider just released their rankings of top engineering schools in the country. Their primary focus was on "the amount the school will help your future career." Georgia Tech's College of Engineering was ranked eighth in the world.

Business Insider reports that there were 723 respondents to the survey, and nearly all (91%) said they had a computer science, engineering or equivalent degree. According to the respondents, "the two most important things that went into choosing an engineering school were the skills and knowledge they acquired in school (73.9%) and the brand value of the school (18.8%). The majority of the respondents (66.8%) studied and applied the C, C++ or C# programming languages, with Java following as a close second (40.8%). Most engineers who responded were either research scientists (10.8%), mobile developers (8.9%) or mechanical engineers (13.3%)."

The methodology used by Business Insider:

• "Initial list was compiled by canvassing engineers, industry professionals and entrepreneurs who work at some of the most popular technology companies.
• Respondents graded schools on a 1 (not valuable) to 5 (most valuable) scale. The score is the average of all responses across those scales.
• Each survey included grades for at least 10 schools. Respondents could also write in responses to the survey for schools that were not included. Some write-ins with overwhelming response were included in the rankings.
• Business Insider parsed LinkedIn to find the top employers for each school, and they are in order of greatest number of graduates employed per school."

 For more information about Business Insider's rankings visit their website.