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The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for engineering and technology employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 100 universities for Engineering and Technology 2013-14

RankInstitutionLocationOverall score
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States
93.1
2Stanford UniversityUnited States
91.9
3University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
90.6
4California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States
90.5
5Princeton UniversityUnited States
89.5
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
88.8
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
87.6
8ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZürichSwitzerland
86.9
9Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
86.0
10University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States
84.9
11Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)United States
82.3
12Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
81.3
13National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore
79.8
14University of Texas at AustinUnited States
79.4
15École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland
78.9
16University of MichiganUnited States
78.7
17Cornell UniversityUnited States
77.3
18University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignUnited States
74.3
19Northwestern UniversityUnited States
72.1
20University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
71.0
21Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong
70.5
22University of TorontoCanada
69.6
23Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
68.9
24Tsinghua UniversityChina
68.8
25Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Republic of Korea
67.6
26Technische Universität MünchenGermany
66.4
27The University of TokyoJapan
66.3
28University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
65.9
29Seoul National UniversityRepublic of Korea
63.5
30Columbia UniversityUnited States
63.4
31University of WashingtonUnited States
63.1
32University of MelbourneAustralia
62.9
33Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore
62.2
34KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden
62.1
34Technical University of DenmarkDenmark
62.1
36KU LeuvenBelgium
61.7
37University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
61.0
38University of MinnesotaUnited States
60.4
39Kyoto UniversityJapan
60.3
39RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany
60.3
41Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)Republic of Korea
60.0
42The University of Hong KongHong Kong
59.9
43University of Queensland AustraliaAustralia
59.8
43University of California, San DiegoUnited States
59.8
45University of California, DavisUnited States
59.7
46Rice UniversityUnited States
59.6
47Peking UniversityChina
59.1
48University of British ColumbiaCanada
58.6
49Monash UniversityAustralia
58.1
50University of SydneyAustralia
57.6
50Purdue UniversityUnited States
57.6
52Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany
57.5
53Ohio State UniversityUnited States
57.4
54University College London (UCL)United Kingdom
57.1
55University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
56.0
56Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States
55.3
57École PolytechniqueFrance
54.8
58Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan
54.4
59McGill UniversityCanada
54.0
60University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
53.4
61Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands
53.2
61Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussian Federation
53.2
63National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
52.3
64Tohoku UniversityJapan
51.4
65Duke UniversityUnited States
51.1
66Texas A&M UniversityUnited States
50.8
67University of WaterlooCanada
50.0
68University of New South WalesAustralia
49.7
69Technion Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael
48.9
70University of California, IrvineUnited States
48.5
70University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States
48.5
72University of DelawareUnited States
47.8
73University of TwenteNetherlands
47.6
74University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
47.4
75University of BristolUnited Kingdom
47.0
75University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom
47.0
77University of California, RiversideUnited States
46.5
78Lund UniversitySweden
46.2
79University of Notre DameUnited States
45.4
80City University of Hong KongHong Kong
45.3
81Ghent UniversityBelgium
45.2
82Mines ParisTechFrance
44.8
83University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
44.5
83Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway
44.5
83Polytechnic University of MilanItaly
44.5
83Brunel UniversityUnited Kingdom
44.5
87University of LeedsUnited Kingdom
44.4
88Uppsala UniversitySweden
44.1
89University of UtahUnited States
44.0
89Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUnited States
44.0
89Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong
44.0
92Brown UniversityUnited States
43.9
93Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany
43.8
94University of PaviaItaly
43.6
95University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
43.5
96Vienna University of TechnologyAustria
43.1
97University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
42.7
98Bilkent UniversityTurkey
42.5
99University of South AustraliaAustralia
42.4
100Université Joseph Fourier, GrenobleFrance
42.3
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can boast that it has helped to bring into the world (in no particular order): the fax machine; the transistor radio; Bose speakers; the global positioning system; the spreadsheet; Technicolor; air conditioning; Hewlett-Packard; the microchip; open courseware; and (of course) the World Wide Web.

So it is little surprise to learn that the 150-year-old US institution is the world number one when it comes to engineering and technology.

The establishment of MIT was promoted in the 1850s by geologist William Barton Rogers, who would become its first president upon its foundation in 1861, days before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Amid the US’ rapid industrialisation, Rogers had conceived the notion of a “polytechnic” institute focusing on technical and scientific education to support the nation’s development, in stark contrast with the Latin- and Greek-dominated university curricula of the day.

Indeed, MIT can lay claim to pioneering entire fields of engineering in the US, including electrical engineering (1882), aeronautical engineering (1914) and nuclear physics (1935), and it boasts nearly 80 Nobel laureates.

Notable alumni include physicist Richard Feynman, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon.

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