Top engineering schools by subject, by region: Top 20 | Top 100 || by country: Top 20 | Top 100 || Institutions in the top 20/top 100
Top engineering schools by subject, by region: Top 20 | Top 100 || by country: Top 20 | Top 100 || Institutions in the top 20/top 100
The 2016 world academic ranking of universities provides a cross view of the engineering top 100 schools, by subject matter and by region/country. The bar chart brings to light the overall dominance of American institutions, markedly in the four areas of electrical and electronic, environmental, materials and mechanical engineering, while Asia-Pacific region leads in the areas of civil and energy engineering. Europe keeps the leadership in chemical engineering.
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Region | Chemical Engineering | Civil Engineering | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy Science & Engineering | Environmental Science & Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Total |
| Americas | 8 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 71 |
| Asia/Pacific | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 35 |
| Europe | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 34 |
| Africas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 140 |
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Region | Chemical Engineering | Civil Engineering | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy Science & Engineering | Environmental Science & Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Totalh2> |
| Europe | 37 | 33 | 27 | 32 | 41 | 29 | 33 | 232 |
| Americas | 32 | 32 | 49 | 30 | 45 | 42 | 42 | 272 |
| Asia/Pacific | 31 | 35 | 24 | 38 | 14 | 29 | 25 | 196 |
| Africas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 700 |
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Country | Chemical Engineering | Civil Engineering | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy Science & Engineering | Environmental Science & Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Total |
| United States | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 69 |
| China | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Korea, Rep. of | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 140 |
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Country | Chemical Engineering | Civil Engineering | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy Science & Engineering | Environmental Science & Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Total |
| United States | 31 | 26 | 45 | 25 | 39 | 41 | 36 | 243 |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 69 |
| China | 11 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 59 |
| Korea, Rep. of | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 37 |
| Japan | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
| Australia | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 30 |
| Canada | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 29 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 27 |
| Germany | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 27 |
| Sweden | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| Denmark | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| Italy | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Singapore | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| France | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| Belgium | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Taiwan | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Portugal | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 700 |
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Institution | Country | Top20 | Top100 |
| University of California, Berkeley | United States | 7 | 7 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 6 | 7 |
| Stanford University | United States | 6 | 7 |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne | Switzerland | 6 | 7 |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | 6 | 7 |
| Tsinghua University | China | 6 | 7 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 5 | 7 |
| National University of Singapore | Singapore | 5 | 6 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 5 | 6 |
| Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 4 | 7 |
| Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 4 | 7 |
| The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | United Kingdom | 4 | 7 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 4 | 7 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 4 | 7 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States | 4 | 7 |
| Harvard University | United States | 4 | 5 |
| Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 3 | 6 |
| Seoul National University | South Korea | 3 | 6 |
| Northwestern University | United States | 3 | 5 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | 3 | 5 |
| Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | 2 | 7 |
| Princeton University | United States | 2 | 7 |
| University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 2 | 7 |
| Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 2 | 6 |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 2 | 6 |
| University of California, San Diego | United States | 2 | 6 |
| University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 2 | 6 |
| Rice University | United States | 2 | 5 |
| Zhejiang University | China | 2 | 5 |
| Aalborg University | Denmark | 2 | 4 |
| City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 2 | 4 |
| Utrecht University | Netherlands | 2 | 3 |
| Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 1 | 7 |
| The University of New South Wales | Australia | 1 | 7 |
| Columbia University | United States | 1 | 6 |
| Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | 1 | 6 |
| The University of Tokyo | Japan | 1 | 6 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 1 | 5 |
| University of Southern California | United States | 1 | 5 |
| University of Washington | United States | 1 | 5 |
| Cornell University | United States | 1 | 4 |
| Duke University | United States | 1 | 4 |
| Polytechnic Institute of Milan | Italy | 1 | 4 |
| The University of Queensland | Australia | 1 | 4 |
| University of British Columbia | Canada | 1 | 4 |
| Tianjin University | China | 1 | 3 |
| Xian Jiao Tong University | China | 1 | 3 |
| Fudan University | China | 1 | 2 |
| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | 1 | 2 |
| University of Wageningen | Netherlands | 1 | 2 |
| Yale University | United States | 1 | 2 |
| Colorado State University | United States | 1 | 1 |
| Concordia University | Canada | 1 | 1 |
| Oregon State University | United States | 1 | 1 |
| Stockholm University | Sweden | 1 | 1 |
| Tongji University | China | 1 | 1 |
| KU Leuven | Belgium | 0 | 7 |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | 0 | 7 |
| Arizona State University | United States | 0 | 6 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 0 | 6 |
| Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Germany | 0 | 6 |
| KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 0 | 6 |
| Kyoto University | Japan | 0 | 6 |
| Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea | 0 | 6 |
| Texas A&M University | United States | 0 | 6 |
| The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 0 | 6 |
| University College London | United Kingdom | 0 | 6 |
| University of Toronto | Canada | 0 | 6 |
| Aalto University | Finland | 0 | 5 |
| California Institute of Technology | United States | 0 | 5 |
| Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden | 0 | 5 |
| Peking University | China | 0 | 5 |
| Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea | 0 | 5 |
| The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 0 | 5 |
| Tohoku University | Japan | 0 | 5 |
| University of California, Davis | United States | 0 | 5 |
| University of California, Riverside | United States | 0 | 5 |
| University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany | 0 | 5 |
| Brown University | United States | 0 | 4 |
| Ghent University | Belgium | 0 | 4 |
| Korea University | South Korea | 0 | 4 |
| Kyushu University | Japan | 0 | 4 |
| Lund University | Sweden | 0 | 4 |
| Monash University | Australia | 0 | 4 |
| Osaka University | Japan | 0 | 4 |
| RWTH Aachen University | Germany | 0 | 4 |
| Technical University Munich | Germany | 0 | 4 |
| The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 0 | 4 |
| Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 0 | 4 |
| University of Alberta | Canada | 0 | 4 |
| University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 0 | 4 |
| University of Florida | United States | 0 | 4 |
| University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 0 | 4 |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | 0 | 4 |
| University of Pennsylvania | United States | 0 | 4 |
| University of Science and Technology of China | China | 0 | 4 |
| University of Waterloo | Canada | 0 | 4 |
| Hanyang University | South Korea | 0 | 3 |
| King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 3 |
| Michigan State University | United States | 0 | 3 |
| National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 0 | 3 |
| National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | 0 | 3 |
| Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 0 | 3 |
| University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 0 | 3 |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | United States | 0 | 3 |
| University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) | France | 0 | 3 |
| University of Quebec | Canada | 0 | 3 |
| University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 0 | 3 |
| University of Tennessee - Knoxville | United States | 0 | 3 |
| University of Twente | Netherlands | 0 | 3 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States | 0 | 3 |
| Yonsei University | South Korea | 0 | 3 |
| Aarhus University | Denmark | 0 | 2 |
| China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) | China | 0 | 2 |
| China University of Petroleum - Beijing | China | 0 | 2 |
| Colorado School of Mines | United States | 0 | 2 |
| Cranfield University | United Kingdom | 0 | 2 |
| Curtin University | Australia | 0 | 2 |
| Dalian University of Technology | China | 0 | 2 |
| Harbin Institute of Technology | China | 0 | 2 |
| Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China | 0 | 2 |
| Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria | 0 | 2 |
| Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1) | France | 0 | 2 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | United States | 0 | 2 |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU | Norway | 0 | 2 |
| Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 | France | 0 | 2 |
| Polytechnic University of Turin | Italy | 0 | 2 |
| Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| Southeast University | China | 0 | 2 |
| Technical University of Berlin | Germany | 0 | 2 |
| The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Melbourne | Australia | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Newcastle, Australia | Australia | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Texas at Dallas | United States | 0 | 2 |
| The University of Western Australia | Australia | 0 | 2 |
| University of Arizona | United States | 0 | 2 |
| University of Bologna | Italy | 0 | 2 |
| University of Connecticut | United States | 0 | 2 |
| University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 0 | 2 |
| University of Delaware | United States | 0 | 2 |
| University of Groningen | Netherlands | 0 | 2 |
| University of Jena | Germany | 0 | 2 |
| University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | 0 | 2 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States | 0 | 2 |
| University of Naples Federico II | Italy | 0 | 2 |
| University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 0 | 2 |
| University of Saskatchewan | Canada | 0 | 2 |
| University of Stuttgart | Germany | 0 | 2 |
| University of Virginia | United States | 0 | 2 |
| University of York | United Kingdom | 0 | 2 |
| Brunel University | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Chongqing University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 | France | 0 | 1 |
| Dalhousie University | Canada | 0 | 1 |
| Drexel University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| East China University of Science and Technology | China | 0 | 1 |
| Hokkaido University | Japan | 0 | 1 |
| James Cook University | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| Jilin University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Johns Hopkins University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 |
| Kyung Hee University | South Korea | 0 | 1 |
| Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Lehigh University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Linkoping University | Sweden | 0 | 1 |
| Loughborough University | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Macquarie University | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| McGill University | Canada | 0 | 1 |
| McMaster University | Canada | 0 | 1 |
| MINES ParisTech | France | 0 | 1 |
| Nanjing University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Nankai University | China | 0 | 1 |
| National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | 0 | 1 |
| National Technical University of Athens | Greece | 0 | 1 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | United States | 0 | 1 |
| New York University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| North Carolina State University - Raleigh | United States | 0 | 1 |
| North China Electric Power University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Paris 12 Val de Marne University | France | 0 | 1 |
| Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain | 0 | 1 |
| Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain | 0 | 1 |
| Queen's University Belfast | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 0 | 1 |
| South China University of Technology | China | 0 | 1 |
| Sun Yat-sen University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Sweden | 0 | 1 |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 0 | 1 |
| The Australian National University | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| The University of Adelaide | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 0 | 1 |
| TU Dresden | Germany | 0 | 1 |
| Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | Malaysia | 0 | 1 |
| University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 0 | 1 |
| University of Bern | Switzerland | 0 | 1 |
| University of Bordeaux | France | 0 | 1 |
| University of California, Irvine | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Canterbury | New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| University of Castilla–La Mancha | Spain | 0 | 1 |
| University of Chicago | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Cincinnati | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of East Anglia | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China | 0 | 1 |
| University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| University of Helsinki | Finland | 0 | 1 |
| University of Houston | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Liege | Belgium | 0 | 1 |
| University of Lisbon | Portugal | 0 | 1 |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Montpellier | France | 0 | 1 |
| University of Muenster | Germany | 0 | 1 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Notre Dame | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Canada | 0 | 1 |
| University of Oslo | Norway | 0 | 1 |
| University of Padua | Italy | 0 | 1 |
| University of Patras | Greece | 0 | 1 |
| University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Porto | Portugal | 0 | 1 |
| University of South Australia | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| University of South Carolina - Columbia | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Strasbourg | France | 0 | 1 |
| University of Surrey | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 |
| University of Sydney | Australia | 0 | 1 |
| University of Trento | Italy | 0 | 1 |
| University of Trieste | Italy | 0 | 1 |
| University of Tulsa | United States | 0 | 1 |
| University of Zurich | Switzerland | 0 | 1 |
| Uppsala University | Sweden | 0 | 1 |
| Vanderbilt University | United States | 0 | 1 |
| Vienna University of Technology | Austria | 0 | 1 |
| VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 0 | 1 |
| Western University | Canada | 0 | 1 |
| Wuhan University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Xiamen University | China | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 140 | 700 | |
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.
