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WashU has an excellent engineering program with some real strengths in areas such as biomedical engineering. They are very well ranked, especially in the NRC rankings.

Rutgers engineering programs are excellent, the faculty are both productive and interested in working with students.

I don't know where you got the idea that Rutgers is in any way a safety school, it consistently ranks in the 30s for the Biomedical Engineering graduate program and it recently received it's 25th continuous year of NIH funding for training. I think you really need to reconsider your criteria, you are very light on research and otherwise look pretty typical, I would in no way look at Rutgers as a "safety".