A company named ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has conducted a study, singling out the best universities for different kinds of engineering. As expected, American universities posted high results, however, other countries were found to be climbing the ladder. The report's name was the Global Raking of Academic Subjects for 2016. The study evaluated more than 350 universities and colleges.
The research took a look at the top 30 universities per engineering qualification, but here we will just recap the top 5. However, the six universities mentioned the most in the study were:
- University of California, Berkeley
- Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT)
- Stanford University
- ETH Zurich
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- Tsinghua University
Presumably, these are the universities that, if you studied engineering in, you could also look forward to a fruitful career in the engineering industry.
Most of the statistical data that the results are generated from are from Elsevier, who is a world-leader in providing scientific, technical and medical information. Their Director of Content and Analytics M'hamed El Aisati said: "With students, researchers and other stakeholders taking a closer look at universities' performance and reputations, ShangaiRanking Consultancy is taking an important step by providing a specific ranking for engineering." He further went on to say it is a good ranking system so that the "competitive position" of the universities could be realized.
Top 5 universities for chemical engineering
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Massachusetts Insitute of Technology | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 4 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 5 | University of Tokyo |
Japan |
- 31 U.S. universities in the top 100 for chemical engineering
Top 5 universities for civil engineering
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Purdue University | United States |
| 2 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 3 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | China- Hong Kong |
| 5 | Tongji University | China |
- Civil engineering has the lowest number of universities ranked due to low output
Top 5 universities for electrical and electronic engineering
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Stanford University | United States |
| 2 | Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
- 45 of the top 100 universities in electrical and electronic engineering are from the United States
- Total of 937 universities ranked.
Top 5 universities for energy science and engineering
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 2 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 3 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 4 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
Top 5 universities for mechanical engineering
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Massachusetts Insitute of Technology | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
- United States universities most prevalent
- United Kingdom also high-ranking
Source: Shangai Ranking
