Best Universities for Engineering

Engineering is an umbrella over largely separate disciplines. The catalogue holds 2,332 programmes at 229 universities across 24 sub-areas — electrical, mechanical, civil, chemical, environmental, aerospace, biomedical, materials and industrial or systems engineering among them. Each branch carries its own accreditation route, professional recognition and laboratory requirements, so a university with real depth in one may teach little of another.

The order below rests on EduRank's independent assessment of research output and reputation at institution level — it is not a subject ranking, so it shows how a university is regarded across all of its research, not how its engineering branches compare. Of the 229 universities teaching engineering, 88 appear in EduRank's data; the highest-ranked of those are listed below, and the rest are simply not covered. Check the key facts, acceptance rate and programme count for each, then look at the specific branch.