| QS World University Rankings by Faculty Area | |||||||||
| Engineering & Technology | |||||||||
| Institutions Considered | 2,069 | ||||||||
| Weightings | |||||||||
| Academic | 40% | ||||||||
| Employer | 30% | ||||||||
| Citations | 10% | ||||||||
| H | 10% | ||||||||
| IRN | 10% | ||||||||
| Top 530 Universities - Engineering & Technology | |||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | Institution | Location | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | International | Score |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 100 | 98.2 | 95.7 | 92.9 | 82.2 | 96.5 |
| 2 | 5 | Stanford University | United States | 96.3 | 95.7 | 100 | 91.7 | 70.9 | 93.5 |
| 3 | 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 92.9 | 95.5 | 92.2 | 87.5 | 92.9 | 93.1 |
| 4 | 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 91 | 96.1 | 94 | 88.5 | 94.2 | 92.9 |
| 5 | 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 94.8 | 90 | 98.6 | 91.7 | 81.6 | 92.1 |
| 6 | 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 96.6 | 85.5 | 90.7 | 87.5 | 94.1 | 91.5 |
| 7 | 6 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland | 94.8 | 85.7 | 93.2 | 89.3 | 86.8 | 90.6 |
| 8 | 12 | Harvard University | United States | 83.1 | 100 | 95.2 | 89.3 | 85.4 | 90.2 |
| 9 | 14 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 92.8 | 88.7 | 91 | 98.7 | 74.1 | 90.1 |
| 10 | 15 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 98.7 | 87.2 | 88.1 | 87 | 66.9 | 89.8 |
| 11 | 11 | EPFL | Switzerland | 93.3 | 83.2 | 92 | 82.3 | 80.5 | 87.8 |
| 12 | 16 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 96.2 | 79.1 | 91.2 | 89.5 | 74.4 | 87.7 |
| 13 | 10 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 92.9 | 79.9 | 84.5 | 85.4 | 93 | 87.4 |
| 14 | 4 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore | 83.9 | 86 | 95.2 | 100 | 78.9 | 86.8 |
| 15 | 18 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 92.3 | 79.3 | 96.7 | 87.5 | 74.6 | 86.6 |
| 16 | 7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 81.1 | 90 | 94.4 | 92.3 | 80.8 | 86.2 |
| 17 | 25 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 87.6 | 86.9 | 91.2 | 86.2 | 72.1 | 86.1 |
| 18 | 13 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy | 89.4 | 81 | 80.3 | 81.6 | 94 | 85.7 |
| 19 | 31= | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 90.7 | 78 | 87.8 | 84.5 | 87 | 85.6 |
| 20 | 17 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 90 | 84.6 | 79.3 | 81.2 | 79.4 | 85.4 |
| 21 | 21= | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France | 85.9 | 83.6 | 84.1 | 85.1 | 88.1 | 85.2 |
| 22 | 26= | Université Paris-Saclay | France | 82.6 | 82.5 | 83 | 91.5 | 98.3 | 85.1 |
| 23 | 26= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 86.6 | 77.5 | 91.3 | 89.5 | 89.4 | 84.9 |
| 24 | 20 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea | 91.7 | 80.3 | 87.3 | 82.9 | 68.6 | 84.7 |
| 25 | 37= | Purdue University | United States | 88.2 | 79 | 83.4 | 82.3 | 86.1 | 84.2 |
| 26 | 31= | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States | 85.6 | 78.9 | 89.9 | 88.1 | 83.4 | 84.1 |
| 27 | 34= | University of Toronto | Canada | 83.5 | 84.1 | 91.6 | 85.9 | 76.2 | 84 |
| 28 | 19 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 92.7 | 71.2 | 84.5 | 84.2 | 85.5 | 83.9 |
| 29 | 61= | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 82.4 | 83.2 | 86.4 | 93.9 | 76 | 83.6 |
| 30 | 39= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China (Mainland) | 87.1 | 80.8 | 85.4 | 91.9 | 67.2 | 83.5 |
| 31 | 43 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 80.9 | 85.5 | 93.1 | 94.3 | 63.9 | 83.1 |
| 32 | 21= | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 82.5 | 74.4 | 89.1 | 85.7 | 99.5 | 82.8 |
| 33 | 36 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 80.9 | 83.5 | 89.6 | 86.2 | 77.3 | 82.7 |
| 34 | 45= | Princeton University | United States | 81.2 | 84.2 | 95.2 | 84.2 | 65.7 | 82.3 |
| 35 | 48 | Cornell University | United States | 82.1 | 81.7 | 94.9 | 84.5 | 69.3 | 82.2 |
| 36 | 34= | Seoul National University | South Korea | 85 | 82.2 | 85.8 | 85.4 | 62.6 | 82 |
| 37 | 49= | University of Waterloo | Canada | 81.4 | 77.5 | 89.1 | 87.5 | 81 | 81.6 |
| 38 | 51= | King Abdulaziz University (KAU) | Saudi Arabia | 82.3 | 70.2 | 94.7 | 87.8 | 92.2 | 81.5 |
| 39= | 28= | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 91.5 | 74.8 | 78.3 | 77.4 | 64.6 | 81.1 |
| 39= | 37= | UCL | United Kingdom | 79.1 | 72 | 90.8 | 87.3 | 100 | 81.1 |
| 41= | 53= | McGill University | Canada | 79.5 | 80 | 88.1 | 81.9 | 81.6 | 81 |
| 41= | 44 | Université PSL | France | 75.9 | 78.2 | 86.8 | 89.5 | 95.1 | 81 |
| 43 | 24 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong SAR | 85.7 | 75.3 | 95.4 | 86.2 | 59.1 | 80.9 |
| 44 | 28= | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 87.8 | 66.7 | 85.5 | 81.6 | 89.6 | 80.8 |
| 45= | 33 | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | 84.8 | 75.5 | 78.9 | 77.8 | 82.9 | 80.5 |
| 45= | 61= | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 79.5 | 73.2 | 92.3 | 91.3 | 83.4 | 80.5 |
| 47 | 65 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | India | 85.2 | 83.8 | 79.2 | 75.6 | 56.5 | 80.4 |
| 48 | 72 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | India | 84.4 | 80.9 | 81.5 | 79.8 | 59.6 | 80.1 |
| 49 | 23 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 81.3 | 71.2 | 90.6 | 90.2 | 80.7 | 80 |
| 50= | 56 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 86.2 | 65.1 | 83.8 | 82.3 | 90.9 | 79.7 |
| 50= | 30 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 77.9 | 74 | 89.9 | 85.7 | 87.5 | 79.7 |
| 52= | 55 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | Germany | 87 | 68.6 | 84 | 75.6 | 80.8 | 79.4 |
| 52= | 77= | Texas A&M University | United States | 81.5 | 73.8 | 84.4 | 82.3 | 79.9 | 79.4 |
| 54 | 68 | Columbia University | United States | 74.2 | 79.6 | 93.2 | 85.7 | 78.5 | 79.3 |
| 55= | 53= | RWTH Aachen University | Germany | 88.3 | 68.5 | 80.9 | 78.2 | 74.5 | 79.2 |
| 55= | 58= | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | Spain | 83.8 | 73.9 | 77.6 | 72 | 85.2 | 79.2 |
| 57= | 39= | KU Leuven | Belgium | 77.2 | 71.8 | 85.3 | 81.6 | 97.7 | 78.9 |
| 57= | 57 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 75 | 92.8 | 66 | 67.7 | 76.4 | 78.9 |
| 59= | 63 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 83.3 | 65.3 | 87.5 | 83.9 | 85.9 | 78.6 |
| 59= | 66= | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 77.4 | 71.3 | 89.6 | 84.5 | 88.1 | 78.6 |
| 59= | 104= | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 77.4 | 84.2 | 74.5 | 70.9 | 78.8 | 78.6 |
| 59= | 71 | University of Washington | United States | 76.2 | 73.3 | 95.8 | 85.7 | 79.6 | 78.6 |
| 63 | 87= | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia | 76.4 | 74.7 | 89.7 | 83.6 | 81.8 | 78.5 |
| 64 | 66= | Sorbonne University | France | 72.1 | 76.1 | 83.7 | 85.4 | 96.1 | 78.2 |
| 65= | 60 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | Spain | 82.5 | 67.5 | 81.4 | 80.5 | 86.6 | 78.1 |
| 65= | 45= | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia | 78.1 | 67.4 | 92.5 | 89.3 | 84.5 | 78.1 |
| 67 | 49= | Kyoto University | Japan | 83.4 | 72 | 80 | 75.6 | 74.7 | 78 |
| 68= | 103 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | India | 83.1 | 77.5 | 76.7 | 73.1 | 63.6 | 77.8 |
| 68= | 96= | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 76.6 | 80.7 | 76.6 | 75.1 | 77.6 | 77.8 |
| 70 | 39= | Monash University | Australia | 75.9 | 72.6 | 90.3 | 82.6 | 82.6 | 77.7 |
| 71 | 70 | Yale University | United States | 72 | 87.1 | 92.3 | 78.2 | 56 | 77.6 |
| 72= | 137= | Harbin Institute of Technology | China (Mainland) | 82.2 | 68.1 | 84.6 | 88.3 | 68.8 | 77.5 |
| 72= | 77= | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 77.2 | 72.4 | 88.1 | 84.2 | 76.7 | 77.5 |
| 72= | 79 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 81.7 | 78.1 | 90 | 77.4 | 46.4 | 77.5 |
| 72= | 139= | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | 78.5 | 83.9 | 78.7 | 63 | 67.8 | 77.5 |
| 76 | 51= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 81.7 | 73.8 | 83.4 | 80.2 | 61.3 | 77.3 |
| 77 | 75 | Northwestern University | United States | 77.7 | 73 | 93.3 | 80.2 | 67.3 | 77.1 |
| 78 | 58= | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 81.3 | 70.5 | 84.2 | 76 | 72.7 | 77 |
| 79 | 39= | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR | 75.9 | 76.6 | 91.7 | 85.4 | 58.7 | 76.9 |
| 80= | 64 | The Australian National University | Australia | 73.3 | 73.4 | 91.3 | 83.9 | 79 | 76.8 |
| 80= | 45= | The University of Sydney | Australia | 77 | 69.2 | 89.6 | 85.9 | 76.7 | 76.8 |
| 82 | 101= | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | India | 79.5 | 75.4 | 81.8 | 79 | 62.1 | 76.7 |
| 83= | 81= | Tohoku University | Japan | 82.5 | 70.4 | 78.3 | 76.9 | 68.6 | 76.5 |
| 83= | 100 | University of Science and Technology of China | China (Mainland) | 78.1 | 67.3 | 91.6 | 89.3 | 69.4 | 76.5 |
| 85 | 122= | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | India | 81.2 | 77.2 | 81.5 | 77.8 | 47.8 | 76.4 |
| 86 | 96= | Yonsei University | South Korea | 76.4 | 78.6 | 85.2 | 79 | 57.1 | 76.3 |
| 87 | 195= | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 77.4 | 82.1 | 81.2 | 65.5 | 58.3 | 76.1 |
| 88= | 76 | Korea University | South Korea | 76.1 | 73.8 | 88.3 | 82.3 | 64 | 76 |
| 88= | 85 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 76.8 | 66.2 | 85.9 | 84.8 | 83 | 76 |
| 90= | 69 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR | 78.1 | 66 | 91.8 | 86.8 | 69.7 | 75.9 |
| 90= | 92= | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 75.3 | 70.5 | 89.7 | 80.2 | 76.5 | 75.9 |
| 90= | 122= | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China (Mainland) | 76.8 | 69.9 | 84.9 | 89.7 | 67.1 | 75.9 |
| 93= | 92= | Fudan University | China (Mainland) | 70.9 | 78.7 | 91.8 | 86.8 | 58.3 | 75.7 |
| 93= | 167= | Grenoble INP, Grenoble Institute of Technology | France | 76.7 | 66.5 | 82 | 78.2 | 90.4 | 75.7 |
| 93= | 145= | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China (Mainland) | 76.6 | 67.6 | 88.3 | 89.7 | 69.7 | 75.7 |
| 93= | 126= | University of Alberta | Canada | 72.6 | 69.9 | 85.9 | 84.2 | 86.5 | 75.7 |
| 97= | 90= | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 80.3 | 59.5 | 82.9 | 79.4 | 93.9 | 75.6 |
| 97= | 87= | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 73 | 76.1 | 90.4 | 79.8 | 65.7 | 75.6 |
| 99 | 74 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | Malaysia | 79.6 | 61.6 | 81.6 | 87.5 | 82.7 | 75.5 |
| 100= | 174 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | 75.2 | 64.6 | 95.1 | 82.6 | 80.6 | 75.3 |
| 100= | 73 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 74.9 | 67.9 | 90.4 | 80.5 | 79 | 75.3 |
| 100= | 108= | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 72.4 | 68.2 | 87.9 | 77.8 | 93 | 75.3 |