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Four countries have 74% of the 2018 top 50 world universities in aerospace engineering:
One wonders where Russian aerospace engineers learn their trade. They aptly produce world-class civil and military aircrafts, and they do not shy away from building high-performing rockets and launchers. Could they be genetically modified for the task, or is the Shanghai Ranking missing something here?
| World Rank | Institution¹ | Country | Score | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total score | PUB | CNCI | IC | TOP | AWARD | |||
| 1 | Beihang University | China | 264.7 | 100 | 80.1 | 43.7 | 75.8 | NA |
| 2 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 235.7 | 60.6 | 67.3 | 39.2 | 100 | NA |
| 3 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States | 234.2 | 46.1 | 92.9 | 53.8 | 84.4 | NA |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 231.8 | 47.7 | 84 | 45.2 | 91.1 | NA |
| 5 | National University of Defense Technology | China | 224.0 | 73.3 | 86.5 | 38.5 | 56.5 | NA |
| 6 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | 220.1 | 45.2 | 76.1 | 44.2 | 89.9 | NA |
| 7 | Harbin Institute of Technology | China | 219.4 | 66.8 | 86.8 | 46.8 | 56.5 | NA |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | China | 209.5 | 66.3 | 79.8 | 43.9 | 54.6 | NA |
| 9 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 203.4 | 50.6 | 77.5 | 75.9 | 60.1 | NA |
| 10 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 199.0 | 39 | 84 | 41.8 | 67.6 | NA |
| 11 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China | 197.0 | 63.5 | 71.1 | 39 | 54.6 | NA |
| 12 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 194.8 | 26 | 89.4 | 82.9 | 62.7 | NA |
| 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 194.7 | 44.5 | 78.5 | 49.3 | 61.9 | NA |
| 14 | Tsinghua University | China | 193.9 | 44.9 | 85.8 | 42.5 | 54.6 | NA |
| 15 | University of Toronto | Canada | 192.2 | 30 | 99.2 | 73.2 | 48.4 | NA |
| 16 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 190.8 | 29.3 | 92.6 | 48.2 | 59.3 | NA |
| 17 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 190.4 | 43.6 | 87.7 | 48.6 | 49.5 | NA |
| 18 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 189.9 | 25.5 | 82.1 | 73.2 | 67.6 | NA |
| 19 | Stanford University | United States | 189.0 | 31.3 | 89.7 | 62.6 | 55.5 | NA |
| 20 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 188.5 | 27.2 | 90 | 42.3 | 62.7 | NA |
| 21 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 188.3 | 41.9 | 74.7 | 36.4 | 64.4 | NA |
| 22 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 186.1 | 43 | 70.7 | 65.7 | 59.3 | NA |
| 23 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 185.3 | 50.3 | 66.1 | 39.7 | 61 | NA |
| 24 | University of Naples Federico II | Italy | 184.2 | 34.2 | 100 | 57.1 | 38.6 | NA |
| 25 | Beijing Institute of Technology | China | 182.3 | 48.5 | 79.8 | 45.2 | 45 | NA |
| 25 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States | 182.3 | 38.4 | 66.9 | 59.2 | 65.2 | NA |
| 27 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States | 177.2 | 41 | 76.8 | 44.5 | 50.5 | NA |
| 28 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 176.6 | 31.5 | 77.1 | 72.1 | 53.6 | NA |
| 29 | University of Virginia | United States | 176.3 | 25.8 | 76.8 | 59.2 | 61.9 | NA |
| 30 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | 174.3 | 38 | 71.1 | 38.7 | 57.4 | NA |
| 31 | University of Florida | United States | 172.5 | 36.6 | 80.5 | 35.2 | 48.4 | NA |
| 32 | Technical University Munich | Germany | 170.5 | 32.7 | 72.5 | 78.9 | 49.5 | NA |
| 33 | Polytechnic University of Turin | Italy | 170.3 | 38.5 | 78.1 | 61.7 | 41.3 | NA |
| 34 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 168.0 | 30.2 | 89.1 | 88.5 | 30.9 | NA |
| 35 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 166.4 | 25.8 | 80.8 | 80.6 | 43.8 | NA |
| 36 | Xian Jiao Tong University | China | 164.0 | 32.1 | 71.1 | 56.8 | 49.5 | NA |
| 37 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 163.6 | 31.7 | 66.9 | 42.7 | 56.5 | NA |
| 38 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 163.3 | 36.4 | 84.9 | 38.8 | 34.2 | NA |
| 39 | Indian Institute of Science | India | 161.9 | 29.5 | 87.1 | 47.8 | 35.7 | NA |
| 40 | Polytechnic Institute of Milan | Italy | 161.1 | 38.4 | 73.3 | 68.9 | 35.7 | NA |
| 41 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 160.8 | 28.2 | 70.3 | 80.5 | 46.1 | NA |
| 42 | University of Surrey | United Kingdom | 159.4 | 26.8 | 81.1 | 64.6 | 38.6 | NA |
| 43 | Texas A&M University | United States | 157.6 | 37.7 | 62 | 59.3 | 46.1 | NA |
| 44 | McGill University | Canada | 156.7 | 28.9 | 76.8 | 69.2 | 37.2 | NA |
| 45 | Dalian University of Technology | China | 155.9 | 25.5 | 90.6 | 35.7 | 32.6 | NA |
| 46 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 154.5 | 28.9 | 74.7 | 83.5 | 34.2 | NA |
| 47 | Polytechnic University of Madrid | Spain | 154.1 | 41.6 | 58 | 72.6 | 39.9 | NA |
| 48 | Zhejiang University | China | 152.9 | 25.8 | 91.5 | 41.9 | 27.3 | NA |
| 49 | University of Strathclyde | United Kingdom | 151.1 | 32.5 | 75.4 | 61.5 | 30.9 | NA |
| 50 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 149.7 | 37.3 | 56.7 | 42.3 | 47.3 | NA |
| ¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. | ||||||||
Sources: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.
