Best universities for Engineering

23 universities with real, published QS World University Rankings by Subject positions in engineering — always a band, never a guessed exact position.

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

🇺🇸 United States · Cambridge, MA

#1–2

QS band

#1

overall

☆2

University of Cambridge

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cambridge

#1–5

QS band

#3

overall

☆3

Stanford University

🇺🇸 United States · Stanford, CA

#2–5

QS band

#3

overall

☆4

University of California, Berkeley

🇺🇸 United States · Berkeley, CA

#3–6

QS band

#11

overall

☆5

ETH Zurich

🇨🇭 Switzerland · Zurich

#1–10

QS band

#13

overall

☆6

Tsinghua University

🇨🇳 China · Beijing

#1–10

QS band

#22

overall

☆7

California Institute of Technology

🇺🇸 United States · Pasadena, CA

#3–8

QS band

#7

overall

☆8

Imperial College London

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · London

#5–15

QS band

#7

overall

☆9

National University of Singapore

🇸🇬 Singapore · Singapore

#5–15

QS band

#17

overall

☆10

Georgia Institute of Technology

🇺🇸 United States · Atlanta, GA

#5–15

QS band

#137

overall

☆11

Nanyang Technological University

🇸🇬 Singapore · Singapore

#5–20

QS band

#32

overall

☆12

University of Tokyo

🇯🇵 Japan · Tokyo

#5–20

QS band

#33

overall

☆13

Cornell University

🇺🇸 United States · Ithaca, NY

#10–20

QS band

#13

overall

☆14

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

🇺🇸 United States · Urbana, IL

#10–20

QS band

#87

overall

☆15

Seoul National University

🇰🇷 South Korea · Seoul

#10–25

QS band

#38

overall

☆16

KAIST

🇰🇷 South Korea · Daejeon

#10–25

QS band

#59

overall

☆17

Purdue University

🇺🇸 United States · West Lafayette, IN

#10–25

QS band

#112

overall

☆18

University of Michigan

🇺🇸 United States · Ann Arbor, MI

#15–30

QS band

#25

overall

☆19

University of Texas at Austin

🇺🇸 United States · Austin, TX

#20–40

QS band

#84

overall

☆20

Rice University

🇺🇸 United States · Houston, TX

#20–40

QS band

#169

overall

☆21

University of Wisconsin-Madison

🇺🇸 United States · Madison, WI

#25–45

QS band

#92

overall

☆22

University of Maryland, College Park

🇺🇸 United States · College Park, MD

#25–45

QS band

#120

overall

☆23

Ohio State University

🇺🇸 United States · Columbus, OH

#30–50

QS band

#133

overall

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Sourced from QS World University Rankings by Subject, shown as published bands. Coverage is deliberately partial — a university missing here isn't "unranked in engineering", it's outside the well-documented tier this site limits itself to. A university's overall aggregate rank blends eight ranking sources; see the methodology.