Lists and Rankings

Winners of the Solar Decathlon

In this international collegiate competition, teams compete to design, build, and operate energy-efficient, completely solar-powered houses. Talk to an engineer and they'll tell you: it's a big deal.

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• Montreal, U of (Canada)
• Puerto Rico, U of
• Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany)
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
• Boston Architectural College (Boston, MA)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
• Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
• Lawrence Technological University (Southfield, MI)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
• Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, MO)
• New York Institute of Technology (Old Westbury, NY)
• Ohio State University — Columbus (Columbus, OH)
• Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
• Texas A&M University — College Station (College Station, TX)
• The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
• The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• University of Calgary (Calgary, CAN)
• University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
• University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL)
• University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, LA)
• University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
• University of Minnesota — Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
• University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, CAN)
• University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA)

Source: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathalon, www.solardecathlon.org.