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.
Subject Rank | Institution | Country / Region | Engineering and TechnologyOverall score | Engineering and TechnologyTeaching | Engineering and TechnologyInternational mix | Engineering and TechnologyIndustry income | Engineering and TechnologyResearch | Engineering and TechnologyCitations | |
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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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Overall score
Combined score.
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Teaching — the learning environment
30% of overall score.
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International outlook — staff and students
5% of overall score.
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Industry income — innovation
5% of overall score.
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Research — volume, income and reputation
30% of overall score.
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Citations — research influence
30% of overall score.
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Engineering and Technology scores
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