Shanghai Ranking 2016: top universities for engineering, technology and computer sciences

Academic Ranking of World Universities reveals its top universities for lengineering, technology and computer sciences according to the 2016 subject ranking league tables, known as the ARWU-FIELD rankings

September 7 2016

By Carly Minsky

The best universities for engineering, technology and computer science degrees have been published as one of ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s five subject rankings.

Two hundred universities around the world are included in the ranking, which has been published annually since 2007.

Every year since then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come top of the engineering ranking, and 2016 is no exception.

In second place is Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. It is the highest rank for an Asian university across all of the five subjects.

In fact, the engineering ranking has an exceptionally high number of Asian institutions at the very top; half of the top 10 universities are based in the Asia/Pacific region.

China is almost as represented in the ranking as the United States; the former has 42 featured universities compared to 47 in the US and only 14 in the UK.

More ShanghaiRanking results:

-Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016: main results
-Shanghai subject ranking 2016 overview
-Full results for natural sciences and mathematics
-Full results for life and agriculture sciences
-Full results for clinical medicine and pharmacy
-Full results for social sciences

The top UK university is, unusually, not Oxford or Cambridge but Imperial College London, which has a focus on science, engineering, technology and medicine.

Outside the UK, the top university in Europe for engineering, technology and computer sciences is École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, where more than half the students are international.

Results for the five broad field rankings are calculated using a set of indicators which cover research publications, citations and research funding.

In addition to the ARWU-FIELD rankings, ShanghaiRanking also published a further breakdown for engineering disciplines into seven subjects for the first time in 2016.

Top universities for Engineering, Technology and Computer Sciences: ARWU-FIELD 2016

World Rank	Institution	Country	Region
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Americas
2	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Asia/Pacific
2	Stanford University	USA	Americas
4	Tsinghua University	China	Asia/Pacific
5	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	Asia/Pacific
6	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia/Pacific
7	Imperial College London	UK	Europe
8	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Americas
9	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
10	University of Texas at Austin	USA	Americas
11	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	Europe
12	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Americas
13	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	Americas
14	Zhejiang University	China	Asia/Pacific
15	University of Michigan	USA	Americas
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Asia/Pacific
17	Texas A&M University	USA	Americas
18	Purdue University	USA	Americas
19	University of Cambridge	UK	Europe
20	Southeast University	China	Asia/Pacific
21	Xi’an Jiaotong University	China	Asia/Pacific
22	South China University of Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
23	University of California, San Diego	USA	Americas
24	City University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
25	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	Europe
26	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Americas
27	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	Europe
28	University of Science and Technology of China	China	Asia/Pacific
29	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Saudi Arabia	Asia/Pacific
29	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Americas
31	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
32	Princeton University	USA	Americas
33	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	Europe
33	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Americas
35	University of Manchester	UK	Europe
36	Northwestern University	USA	Americas
37	Harvard University	USA	Americas
37	University of Minnesota	USA	Americas
39	Aalborg University	Denmark	Europe
39	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
41	Fudan University	China	Asia/Pacific
42	California Institute of Technology	USA	Americas
42	University of New South Wales	Australia	Asia/Pacific
42	University of Washington	USA	Americas
45	University of Granada	Spain	Europe
46	National Taiwan University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
47	Ohio State University	USA	Americas
48	University of Tehran	Iran	Asia/Pacific
49	Korea University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
50	University of Toronto	Canada	Americas
51-75	Central South University	China	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	Europe
51-75	Cornell University	USA	Americas
51-75	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	Europe
51-75	KU Leuven	Belgium	Europe
51-75	North Carolina State University	USA	Americas
51-75	Peking University	China	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Pennsylvania State University	USA	Americas
51-75	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy	Europe
51-75	Seoul National University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Soochow University	China	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Europe
51-75	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Tel Aviv University	Israel	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Chinese University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
51-75	University of Hong Kong	China-hk	Asia/Pacific
51-75	University of Melbourne	Australia	Asia/Pacific
51-75	Tohoku University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
51-75	University College London	UK	Europe
51-75	University of Lisbon	Portugal	Europe
51-75	University of Maryland, College Park	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Oxford	UK	Europe
51-75	University of Southern California	USA	Americas
51-75	University of Waterloo	Canada	Americas
76-100	Johns Hopkins University	USA	Americas
76-100	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Linköping University	Sweden	Europe
76-100	Monash University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	NanJing Tech University	China	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Nankai University	China	Asia/Pacific
76-100	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
76-100	National Chiao Tung University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Polytechnic University of Catalonia	Spain	Europe
76-100	Rice University	USA	Americas
76-100	Sichuan University	China	Asia/Pacific
76-100	The University of Akron	USA	Americas
76-100	The University of Queensland	Australia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	University of Tokyo	Japan	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Tianjin University	China	Asia/Pacific
76-100	TU Dresden	Germany	Europe
76-100	University of Bristol	UK	Europe
76-100	University of British Columbia	Canada	Americas
76-100	University of Colorado Boulder	USA	Americas
76-100	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China	Asia/Pacific
76-100	University of Salerno	Italy	Europe
76-100	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	Asia/Pacific
76-100	Wuhan University of Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Amirkabir University of Technology	Iran	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece	Europe
101-150	Arizona State University	USA	Americas
101-150	Beihang University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Curtin University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Dalian University of Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	Europe
101-150	Donghua University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Duke University	USA	Americas
101-150	East China University of Science and Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Jiangnan University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
101-150	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	Europe
101-150	Nanjing University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	National Sun Yat-Sen University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
101-150	National Technical University of Athens	Greece	Europe
101-150	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Malaysia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	New York University	USA	Americas
101-150	Northeastern University (China)	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Osaka University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Polytechnic University of Turin	Italy	Europe
101-150	RMIT University	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Shandong University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Technical University of Berlin	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Adelaide	Australia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Edinburgh	UK	Europe
101-150	Tongji University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of Birmingham	UK	Europe
101-150	University of California, Davis	USA	Americas
101-150	University of California, Irvine	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Delaware	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany	Europe
101-150	University of Houston	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Leeds	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Massachusetts	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Montreal	Canada	Americas
101-150	University of São Paulo	Brazil	Americas
101-150	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia	Asia/Pacific
101-150	University of Southampton	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Tennessee - Knoxville	USA	Americas
101-150	University of Warwick	UK	Europe
101-150	University of Wisconsin	USA	Americas
101-150	Uppsala University	Sweden	Europe
101-150	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	USA	Americas
101-150	Wuhan University	China	Asia/Pacific
101-150	Xidian University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Aalto University	Finland	Europe
151-200	Aix-Marseille University	France	Europe
151-200	Beijing Institute of Technology	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Beijing Normal University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Chongqing University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France	Europe
151-200	Columbia University	USA	Americas
151-200	Ghent University	Belgium	Europe
151-200	Hanyang University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Hunan University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Indian Institute of Science	India	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Iowa State University	USA	Americas
151-200	Jilin University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	Europe
151-200	Kyoto University	Japan	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Lund University	Sweden	Europe
151-200	McGill University	Canada	Americas
151-200	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	National Tsing Hua University	China-tw	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Northeastern University	USA	Americas
151-200	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	Europe
151-200	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France	Europe
151-200	Technical University of Madrid	Spain	Europe
151-200	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain	Europe
151-200	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	Europe
151-200	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	Europe
151-200	Sun Yat-sen University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Newcastle	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Sheffield	UK	Europe
151-200	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Arizona	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Bologna	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of Florida	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Liverpool	UK	Europe
151-200	University of Lorraine	France	Europe
151-200	University of Malaya	Malaysia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Naples Federico II	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of Nottingham	UK	Europe
151-200	University of Padua	Italy	Europe
151-200	University of Pennsylvania	USA	Americas
151-200	University of Porto	Portugal	Europe
151-200	University of Science and Technology Beijing	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of Sydney	Australia	Asia/Pacific
151-200	University of the Basque Country	Spain	Europe
151-200	University of Twente	Netherlands	Europe
151-200	University of Utah	USA	Americas
151-200	Xiamen University	China	Asia/Pacific
151-200	Yonsei University	South Korea	Asia/Pacific