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Top 50 Engineering & Technology universities

13 October 2011

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.

But the East Coast business powerhouse the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which boasts an $8 billion (£4.9 billion) endowment, remains a major player. It shares first place with last year's outright top dog, the California Institute of Technology.

The University of California, Berkeley occupies fourth place while Stanford University, whose alumni include William Hewlett, David Packard and other electronics tycoons, takes fifth. Four other members of the University of California - Los Angeles (eighth), Santa Barbara (joint 16th), San Diego (24th) and Davis (32nd) - are also highly placed. The results come despite the funding crisis facing the State of California: only time will tell whether the institution can maintain its competitiveness.

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.

But the field of engineering and technology, covering everything from aerospace engineering to sustainable energy research, software design and robotics, is one of the most diverse of the subject tables in terms of national representation.

It is also the subject in which Asia makes its strongest showing in any discipline.

It has 10 institutions in the top 50 (compared with only six from mainland Europe), headed by the National University of Singapore (19th).

Engineering is the largest of the university's 14 faculties and has grown from just 300 students in the late 1970s to about 10,000 students today.

The University of Tokyo, in 21st place, has won several large grants under the Japanese government's 21st Century Centre of Excellence Programme, set up in 2002 to reward world-class research and help maintain global competitiveness.

Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities 2011-2012
  Subject RankOrdered by this column, descending Institution Country / Region Engineering and TechnologyOverall score Engineering and TechnologyTeaching Engineering and TechnologyInternational mix Engineering and TechnologyIndustry income Engineering and TechnologyResearch Engineering and TechnologyCitations
1 California Institute of Technology United States
92.7
96.9
42.1
93.1
95.4
99
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
92.7
95.8
73.1
87.5
89.1
99.6
3 Princeton University United States
92.4
93.2
47.1
96
95.8
99.6
4 University of California, Berkeley United States
91.7
91.3
61.3
59.4
99.3
98
5 Stanford University United States
91.4
93.7
47.9
67.5
96.3
99.6
6 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
90.6
95.2
81.6
73.1
91
90.9
7 University of Oxford United Kingdom
87.4
94.5
86
40.5
87.7
88.3
8 University of California, Los Angeles United States
87.3
85.8
53.8
Data withheld by THE
91.3
96.9
9 ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland
87.1
89.3
93.7
Data withheld by THE
92
79.5
10 Imperial College London United Kingdom
85.7
91.9
89.1
66.5
87.2
80
11 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
85.4
88.4
58.4
97.9
89.9
82.3
12 Carnegie Mellon University United States
83.2
90.6
50
76.1
93
74.7
13 University of Texas at Austin United States
81
81
47.4
80.9
87.7
82.9
14 University of Michigan United States
80.8
87.3
54.9
59.4
92.2
72.3
15 Cornell University United States
79.8
80.4
40
Data withheld by THE
84.3
92.6
16 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
78.1
64.7
69.3
96.5
73.5
96.7
16 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States
78.1
85.6
43.9
Data withheld by THE
90.2
70.3
18 University of Toronto Canada
78
76.6
61.8
35.6
81.6
87.8
19 National University of Singapore Singapore
77.5
78.7
90
62.2
80.9
71.7
20 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
77.1
73.5
97.7
38.3
73.2
86.5
21 University of Tokyo Japan
69.8
89.1
22.4
69.8
81.4
48.9
22 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
69.1
77.8
63
99.9
89.7
33.3
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
69.1
67.4
22.1
51.3
76.6
79
24 University of California, San Diego United States
67.8
59
30.6
58.5
67.9
89
25 University of Melbourne Australia
67.4
58.3
88.8
36.5
56.5
89
26 University of Manchester United Kingdom
67.1
66.3
79.1
41.6
60.2
77
27 University College London United Kingdom
66.6
63.6
89.9
34.6
60.7
75.6
28 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
66.1
65
77.8
56.4
67.8
64.2
29 École Polytechnique France
65.9
60.4
77.4
61
55.2
81.5
29 University of Minnesota United States
65.9
57.7
24.1
Data withheld by THE
70.5
88
31 Tsinghua University China
65.6
87.8
22.3
97.6
83.5
27.7
32 University of California, Davis United States
65.2
49.4
64.8
53.6
60.7
89.6
33 University of British Columbia Canada
64.5
61.5
83.1
38.6
69.1
62.5
34 Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of
63.8
57.9
21.3
100
52.2
87.9
35 The University of Sydney Australia
63.4
51.4
92.3
94
56.8
70.2
36 Pennsylvania State University United States
62.4
61.9
28.9
69.6
64.9
67.8
37 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
62
59.6
72.6
27.3
61.4
68.7
38 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium
61.5
52
55.7
94.8
63.4
65.2
39 Purdue University United States
60.7
74.1
45.9
Data withheld by THE
72.1
41.6
40 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of
60.2
74.1
25.1
99.8
70.2
36.4
40 Rice University United States
60.2
49.8
39.1
49.7
41
100
42 The Ohio State University United States
59.5
54
37.1
95.9
57.7
66.8
43 Technische Universität München Germany
58.7
62
61.9
39.9
60.3
55.8
44 Peking University China
58.5
59.1
33.7
83.3
47
72.8
45 Brown University United States
58.3
47.6
36.8
43.1
42.5
95.9
45 The University of Queensland Australia Australia
58.3
46.3
72.3
95.7
40.3
80.5
47 McGill University Canada
57.9
66
74
38.2
70.2
34.7
48 Kyoto University Japan
56.6
71
20
56.5
67.9
38.5
48 University of Waterloo Canada
56.6
61
58.2
31.4
61.7
50.2
50 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
55.3
55.8
88.1
49.1
61
40.6

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