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Top engineering universities ranked

A company named ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has conducted a study, singling out the best universities for different kinds of engineering. As expected, American universities posted high results, however, other countries were found to be climbing the ladder. The report’s name was the Global Raking of Academic Subjects for 2016. The study evaluated more than 350 universities and colleges. 

The research took a look at the top 30 universities per engineering qualification, but here we will just recap the top 5. However, the six universities mentioned the most in the study were:

  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT)
  • Stanford University 
  • ETH Zurich
  • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 
  • Tsinghua University 

Presumably, these are the universities that, if you studied engineering in, you could also look forward to a fruitful career in the engineering industry. 

EIT Stock ImageMost of the statistical data that the results are generated from are from Elsevier, who is a world-leader in providing scientific, technical and medical information. Their Director of Content and Analytics M’hamed El Aisati said: “With students, researchers and other stakeholders taking a closer look at universities’ performance and reputations, ShangaiRanking Consultancy is taking an important step by providing a specific ranking for engineering.” He further went on to say it is a good ranking system so that the “competitive position” of the universities could be realized. 

Top 5 universities for chemical engineering

RankInstitutionCountry
Massachusetts Insitute of TechnologyUnited States
2Stanford University United States
3University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
4National University of SingaporeSingapore
5University of TokyoJapan
  • 31 U.S. universities in the top 100 for chemical engineering

Top 5 universities for civil engineering

RankInstitutionCountry
1Purdue University United States
2Technical University of DenmarkDenmark
3Tsinghua University China
4Hong Kong Polytechnic University China- Hong Kong
5Tongji University China
  • Civil engineering has the lowest number of universities ranked due to low output 

Top 5 universities for electrical and electronic engineering

RankInstitutionCountry
Stanford University United States
2Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
3University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
4Nanyang Technological University Singapore
5Georgia Institute of Technology United States
  • 45 of the top 100 universities in electrical and electronic engineering are from the United States 
  • Total of 937 universities ranked. 

Top 5 universities for energy science and engineering

RankInstitution Country
1Tsinghua UniversityChina
2Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 
3National University of SingaporeSingapore
4Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
5Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Top 5 universities for mechanical engineering

RankInstitution Country
1Massachusetts Insitute of TechnologyUnited States
2Stanford University United States
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
4Northwestern University United States
5Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
  • United States universities most prevalent
  • United Kingdom also high-ranking

Source: Shangai Ranking


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