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Global Top 50 Universities For Teaching And Research In Engineering And Technology: THE Ranking 2018

Stanford University was the best university in the world for teaching and research in engineering and technology, according to the latest prestigious subject rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE).

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was 2nd and Oxford University was 3rd for the same discipline. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology took 4th place, followed by the University of Cambridge and Princeton University.

China’s Peking University entered the top ten for the first time. It took 7th place for engineering and technology.  The rankings are based on 13 individual performance indicators such as teaching, citations and research volume and reputation.

Global Top 50 Universities For Engineering And Technology:

1. Stanford University, US
2. California Institute of Technology, US
3. University of Oxford, UK
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
5. University of Cambridge, UK

6. Princeton University, US
7. Peking University, CHina
8. National University of Singapore
9. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
10. Imperial College London, UK

11. Georgia Institute of Technology, US
12. Carnegie Mellon University. US
13. University of California, Berkeley, US
14. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (tie), Switzerland
15. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tie), US

16. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
17. University of Michigan, US
18. Delft University of Technology (tie), Netherlands
19. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (tie), Hong Kong
20. Cornell University (tie), US

21. Technical University of Munich (tie), Germany
22. Tsinghua University, China
23. Northwestern University, US
24. RWTH Aachen University, Germany
25. Purdue University, US

26. Columbia University, US
27. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
28. University of Texas at Austin, US
29. University of Toronto, Canada
30. University of Hong Kong

31. University of California, Santa Barbara, US
32. Seoul National University, South Korea
33. University of California, San Diego, US
34. Johns Hopkins University, US
35. University of Tokyo, Japan

36. University College London, UK
37. KU Leuven, Belgium
38. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
39. University of Science and Technology of China, China
40. University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

41. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
42. Kyoto University, Japan
43. Technical University of Berlin, Germany
44. University of Washington, US
45. University of Edinburgh, UK

46. University of Manchester, UK
47. Fudan University (tie), China
48. Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) (tie), South Korea
49. Rice University, US
50. Zhejiang University, China

Stanford University School of Engineering ranked 3rd globally by the CEOWORLD’s world’s best universities for engineering and technology 2017 and placed 12th in the global Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities released by National Taiwan University Ranking (NTU Ranking).

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