Best 50 engineering and technology universities

The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Engineering and Technology table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for engineering and technology employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are 

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Best 50 engineering & technology universities

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.4
2	Princeton University	United States	91.9
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	91.4
4	University of California, Berkeley	United States	90.2
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	89.4
5	Stanford University	United States	89.4
7	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	88.4
8	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	86.1
9	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	85.0
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	84.6
11	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	84.1
12	National University of Singapore	Singapore	83.4
13	University of Texas at Austin	United States	82.7
14	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	81.7
15	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.3
16	Northwestern University	United States	80.7
17	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	79.5
18	Cornell University	United States	79.0
19	University of Michigan	United States	77.7
20	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	75.8
21	Columbia University	United States	75.5
22	University of Toronto	Canada	75.0
23	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	74.4
24	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	74.3
25	University of Melbourne	Australia	74.2
26	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	73.1
26	University of Pennsylvania	United States	73.1
28	University of Tokyo	Japan	72.6
29	École Polytechnique	France	70.8
30	Rice University	United States	70.5
31	Tsinghua University	China	69.9
32	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	69.8
33	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	69.4
34	University of Washington	United States	69.3
35	University College London	United Kingdom	69.0
36	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	67.8
36	University of California, San Diego	United States	67.8
38	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	67.2
39	University of British Columbia	Canada	67.1
40	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	66.8
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	66.3
42	Purdue University	United States	66.2
43	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	64.7
44	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.6
45	University of Minnesota	United States	64.2
46	University of Sydney	Australia	64.1
47	Kyoto University	Japan	63.9
48	University of California, Davis	United States	63.5
49	Duke University	United States	63.2
50	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	63.0

Engineering and Technology Rankings

Seven stars shine over Golden State

4 October 2012

The state of California has maintained its grip on the Times Higher Education engineering and technology table.

As in previous years, California, the home of the high-tech business hub Silicon Valley, takes three of the top-five places - including the number one spot, retained by the California Institute of Technology.

The Golden State takes seven of the top 50 places (two more than the UK), with an exceptional showing for the research institutions of the University of California system: Berkeley maintains fourth place; Los Angeles is seventh; Santa Barbara is 17th; San Diego comes joint 36th; and Davis follows them in 48th place.

The private Stanford University - whose nearly 90-year-old engineering school claims to have "laid the technological and business foundations for Silicon Valley" - completes California's septet, in joint fifth place. Household names such as Google, Yahoo! and Hewlett-Packard originated there.

Overall, the US dominates the list, taking almost half of the top 50 places. The country's East Coast is represented in the top 10 by Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But Asia features strongly, too. The region has 11 representatives, its best subject-level performance, led by the Republic of Korea, which has three candidates: the Pohang University of Science and Technology (24th); Seoul National University (joint 36th); and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (44th).

Asia's highest-ranked institution is the National University of Singapore, which has risen to 12th position.

Meanwhile, Nanyang Technological University leaps from 50th to joint 26th place. Bertil Andersson, Nanyang's president, points out that the 21-year-old university is one of the world's biggest dedicated engineering universities, with two-thirds of the institution devoted to the field.

It scores particularly strongly for its engagement with industry and its international .outlook