World's Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities

World's Top Engineering and Technology Universities

Studying engineering abroad is a wise decision because you will get well-rounded education with access to the latest innovations and research facilities.

Engineering is a very broad discipline, further divided into many branches and specializations like Computer Science, Mechanical, Electronics etc.

Countries may have different admission criteria but there are common points across board: strong academic record, completion of high school equivalent of the country you are applying to (for undergraduate programs) and similar higher qualifications for higher programs (like masters, doctorate, postdoctorate), language proficiency (IELTS, TOEFL), achievements in extracurricular activities amongst others.

Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities (2011-12) rated by Times Higher Education, THE

The engineering and technology table is, like it was last year, dominated by California. Three of the top five institutions in the rankings hail from the Golden State, home of the global high-tech hub Silicon Valley.

In total, 22 US institutions feature in the top 50. The UK also scores highly in the table, with three of the top 10 and five representatives overall. Asia has 10 institutions in the top 50 (compared with only six from mainland Europe), headed by the National University of Singapore (19th).

Subject Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Engineering and TechnologyOverall score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
3	Princeton University	United States	92.4
4	University of California Berkeley	United States	91.7
5	Stanford University	United States	91.4
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.6
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.4
8	University of California Los Angeles	United States	87.3
9	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	87.1
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	85.7
11	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	85.4
12	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	83.2
13	University of Texas at Austin	United States	81
14	University of Michigan	United States	80.8
15	Cornell University	United States	79.8
16	University of California Santa Barbara	United States	78.1
16	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	78.1
18	University of Toronto	Canada	78
19	National University of Singapore	Singapore	77.5
20	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	77.1
21	University of Tokyo	Japan	69.8
22	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	69.1
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	69.1
24	University of California San Diego	United States	67.8
25	University of Melbourne	Australia	67.4
26	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	67.1
27	University College London	United Kingdom	66.6
28	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	66.1
29	École Polytechnique	France	65.9
29	University of Minnesota	United States	65.9
31	Tsinghua University	China	65.6
32	University of California Davis	United States	65.2
33	University of British Columbia	Canada	64.5
34	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic Of	63.8
35	The University of Sydney	Australia	63.4
36	Pennsylvania State University	United States	62.4
37	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	62
38	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	61.5
39	Purdue University	United States	60.7
40	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea, Republic Of	60.2
40	Rice University	United States	60.2
42	The Ohio State University	United States	59.5
43	Technische Universität München	Germany	58.7
44	Peking University	China	58.5
45	Brown University	United States	58.3
45	The University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.3
47	McGill University	Canada	57.9
48	Kyoto University	Japan	56.6
48	University of Waterloo	Canada	56.6
50	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	55.3

Source: Times Higher Education, THE: World University Ranking 2011-2012

Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities (2010-11) rated by Times Higher Education, THE

Rank	University	Country
1	California Institute of Technology	United States
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
3	Stanford University	United States
4	Princeton University	United States
5	University of California Berkeley	United States
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
8	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
11	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
12	Cornell University	United States
13	University of Toronto	Canada
14	University of Michigan	United States
15	University of Illinois – Urbana	United States
16	National University of Singapore	Singapore
17	University of California Santa Barbara	United States
18	Northwestern University	United States
19	University of Hong Kong		Hong Kong
20	Tsinghua University		China
21	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology		Hong Kong
22	University of Tokyo		Japan
23	Ecole Polytechnique		France
24	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne		Switzerland
25	Peking University		China
26	University of Massachusetts		United States
27	University of Minnesota		United States
28	Pohang University of Science and Technology		Republic of Korea
29	Brown University		United States
30	University of Melbourne		Australia
31	University of California San Diego		United States
32	Rice University		United States
33	Delft University of Technology		Netherlands
34	Purdue University		United States
35	University of Wisconsin		United States
36	Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris		France
37	University of Queensland		Australia
38	University of British Columbia		Canada
39	University of Freiburg		Germany
40	University of Sydney		Australia
41	University of Southern California		United States
42	University of California Davis		United States
43	Birkbeck, University of London		United Kingdom
44	Australian National University		Australia
45	University of Science and Technology of China		China
46	National Taiwan University		Taiwan
47	University of Notre Dame		United States
48	Nanjing University		China
49	Bielefeld University		Germany
50	Ohio State University		United States