The 2009 ranking of the top 100 world-class universities in engineering, technology and computer science is led by North America (a total of 48). Asia-Pacific comes second (23) thus justifying the emergence of this area as the "workshop of the world". Europe is third with 23.
Top 100 World-class Universities | |||
Ranking in the Field ¹ | Institution | Country | |
2009 | 2008 | ||
1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA |
2 | 2 | Stanford University | USA |
3 | 3 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
4 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley | USA |
5 | 7 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
6 | 5 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | USA |
7 | 6 | The University of Texas at Austin | USA |
8 | 8 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA |
9 | 10 | University of California, San Diego | USA |
10 | 9 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | USA |
11 | 11 | University of Southern California | USA |
12 | 12 | California Institute of Technology | USA |
13 | 13 | University of California, Santa Barbara | USA |
14 | 13 | University of Maryland, College Park | USA |
15 | 18 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne | Switzerland |
15 | 15 | University of Cambridge | UK |
17 | 17 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | USA |
18 | 16 | Cornell University | USA |
19 | 21 | University of Toronto | Canada |
20 | 19 | Tohoku University | Japan |
21 | 29 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
22 | 20 | Northwestern University | USA |
22 | 22 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | USA |
24 | 33 | University of Florida | USA |
25 | 27 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | USA |
26 | 23 | Kyoto University | Japan |
26 | 27 | University of Washington | USA |
26 | 24 | Princeton University | USA |
26 | 32 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA |
30 | 25 | The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | UK |
31 | 34 | Texas A&M University - College Station | USA |
32 | 35 | The University of Manchester | UK |
33 | 29 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
34 | 25 | North Carolina State University - Raleigh | USA |
35 | 31 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | USA |
36 | 40 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | China |
37 | National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan | |
38 | 36 | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
38 | 37 | Harvard University | USA |
40 | 39 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
41 | 51-75 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
42 | 41 | University of California, Irvine | USA |
43 | 46 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | USA |
44 | 50 | Tsinghua University | China |
45 | 51-75 | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan |
46 | 47 | University of Oxford | UK |
47 | 44 | University of California, Davis | USA |
48 | 38 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | USA |
49 | 49 | McGill University | Canada |
50 | 44 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | USA |
51-77 | 76-107 | Zhejiang University | China |
51-77 | 48 | University of Colorado at Boulder | USA |
51-77 | 51-75 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
51-77 | 51-75 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
51-77 | 76-107 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
51-77 | 51-75 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
51-77 | 76-107 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
51-77 | 51-75 | University of Virginia | USA |
51-77 | 51-75 | University of Sydney | Australia |
51-77 | 51-75 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | USA |
51-77 | 51-75 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
51-77 | 76-107 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | India |
51-77 | 76-107 | Indian Institute of Science | India |
51-77 | 51-75 | Polytechnic University of Turin | Italy |
51-77 | 51-75 | Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 | France |
51-77 | 42 | Osaka University | Japan |
51-77 | 51-75 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
51-77 | 51-75 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium |
51-77 | 76-107 | Arizona State University - Tempe | USA |
51-77 | 51-75 | Duke University | USA |
51-77 | 43 | Columbia University | USA |
51-77 | 51-75 | City University of Hong Kong | China |
51-77 | 76-107 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
51-77 | 51-75 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
51-77 | 76-107 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | China |
51-77 | 51-75 | Seoul National University | Korea |
51-77 | 51-75 | The University of Sheffield | UK |
78-100 | 51-75 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
78-100 | 76-107 | University of Utah | USA |
78-100 | 76-107 | Catholic University of Louvain | Belgium |
78-100 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | |
78-100 | 76-107 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
78-100 | 51-75 | University of Twente | Netherlands |
78-100 | 76-107 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
78-100 | 76-107 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
78-100 | 76-107 | University of Bristol | UK |
78-100 | 51-75 | University of Bordeaux 1 | France |
78-100 | 76-107 | University of Alberta | Canada |
78-100 | University of Leeds | UK | |
78-100 | 76-107 | Technical University Munich | Germany |
78-100 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | |
78-100 | 51-75 | Rice University | USA |
78-100 | 51-75 | University of Delaware | USA |
78-100 | 76-107 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | Korea |
78-100 | 76-107 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Korea |
78-100 | 51-75 | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
78-100 | 76-107 | University of Southampton | UK |
78-100 | 51-75 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
78-100 | 76-107 | Michigan State University | USA |
78-100 | 76-107 | Lund University | Sweden |
¹ Ranking in the academic field. Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. |
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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.