The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Engineering and Technology table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for engineering and technology employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

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Top 100 universities for engineering and technology 2014-2015

Rank Institution Location Overall score
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
93.6
2 Stanford University United States
92.9
3 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
89.9
4 Princeton University United States
89.3
5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
89.2
6 Imperial College London United Kingdom
88.3
7 University of Oxford United Kingdom
87.9
8 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland
87.1
9 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States
86.3
10 University of California, Berkeley United States
86.0
11 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) United States
83.9
12 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
82.9
13
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
81.7
14 University of Texas at Austin United States
81.2
15 University of Michigan United States
80.6
16 Carnegie Mellon University United States
78.1
17 Cornell University United States
76.4
18 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States
76.1
19 Northwestern University United States
75.2
19 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
75.2
21
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
73.4
22 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
72.1
23 Tsinghua University China
71.4
24
University of Toronto
Canada
70.6
25
The University of Tokyo
Japan
69.7
26 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Republic of Korea
69.6
27 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
68.1
28 Technische Universität München Germany
67.5
29
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
67.4
30 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
66.3
31 Technical University of Denmark Denmark
66.0
32 Columbia University United States
65.9
33 University of Washington United States
64.5
34 KU Leuven Belgium
64.3
35
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
63.9
36
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
63.7
37 University of Melbourne Australia
62.8
37 University of Manchester United Kingdom
62.8
39 University of Queensland Australia Australia
62.7
40 Rice University United States
62.5
41 Kyoto University Japan
61.9
42 École Polytechnique France
61.5
43
University of British Columbia
Canada
61.0
43 Peking University China
61.0
45 Purdue University United States
60.9
46 Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) Republic of Korea
60.4
46 University of Sydney Australia
60.4
48
Monash University
Australia
60.2
49 University of Minnesota United States
60.0
50 University of California, San Diego United States
59.5
51 McGill University Canada
59.4
52 University of California, Davis United States
59.2
53 University College London (UCL) United Kingdom
59.1
54 RWTH Aachen University Germany
58.0
55 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
57.6
56 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany
57.4
57 Pennsylvania State University United States
56.8
58 University of Pennsylvania United States
56.4
59 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
56.0
60 Technical University of Berlin Germany
55.8
61 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
55.2
62 Texas A&M University United States
55.0
63 University of New South Wales Australia
54.2
64 Ohio State University United States
54.1
65 National Taiwan University Taiwan
53.8
66 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation
53.5
67 Duke University United States
52.9
68
University of Waterloo
Canada
51.9
69
University of South Australia
Australia
51.5
70 Tohoku University Japan
51.2
71 Technion Israel Institute of Technology Israel
50.4
72 University of Nottingham United Kingdom
50.3
73 University of California, Riverside United States
50.1
74 University of California, Irvine United States
49.8
75 Technische Universität Dresden Germany
49.5
76 University of Leeds United Kingdom
49.2
77
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
48.6
78 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States
48.5
79 Lund University Sweden
48.3
79 University of Maryland, College Park United States
48.3
81 University of Delaware United States
48.0
81
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
48.0
81 University of Bristol United Kingdom
48.0
84 Mines ParisTech France
47.9
85 University of Colorado Boulder United States
47.8
86 University of Twente Netherlands
47.7
86 Polytechnic University of Milan Italy
47.7
88 Université Pierre et Marie Curie France
47.5
89 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
47.4
90 Wageningen University and Research Center Netherlands
47.1
91 Brown University United States
46.8
92 Uppsala University Sweden
46.7
93
Brunel University London
United Kingdom
46.6
94 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
46.1
95
University of Technology, Sydney
Australia
46.0
96 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Republic of Korea
45.8
97 Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany
45.7
98 University of Sheffield United Kingdom
45.6
99 Middle East Technical University Turkey
45.1
100 Aalto University Finland
44.8
100 Vienna University of Technology Austria
44.8

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Engineering & Technology subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters.

The full list of Engineering & Technology subjects used to create this ranking is:

  • Acoustics
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Automation & Control Systems
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer & Information Science
  • Construction & Building Technology
  • Earth & Environmental Engineering
  • Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Instruments & Instrumentation
  • Marine Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
  • Mining & Mineral Processing
  • Nuclear Science & Technology
  • Operations Research & Management Science
  • Robotics
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation
  • Engineering & Technology - Other topics