In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Engineering Electrial 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0	98.9	88.1	100.0	97.9
2	2	Stanford University	United States	95.9	95.9	90.0	95.9	95.0
3	3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	94.4	89.6	90.0	99.0	93.0
4	7=	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.4	100.0	83.4	84.3	91.3
5	12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	96.1	85.8	88.2	91.4	91.1
6	6	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	85.9	94.4	89.7	97.3	90.7
7	5	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	88.6	92.8	86.6	92.1	90.1
8	7=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	81.5	98.0	86.1	96.5	89.4
9	4	Harvard University	United States	83.3	98.8	89.6	82.9	88.8
10	9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	87.1	90.9	86.2	91.0	88.7
11	10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	83.6	99.4	86.8	81.5	88.5
12	11	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	89.5	85.9	84.0	86.5	87.1
13	26	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	89.8	83.5	84.8	88.5	87.0
14	13	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	83.4	85.0	84.3	97.0	86.1
15	17	Tsinghua University	China	82.4	87.9	79.1	97.9	85.9
16	18	The University of Tokyo	Japan	86.7	91.3	71.8	82.0	85.1
17	16	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	83.2	86.8	82.0	89.2	85.0
18	20=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	85.0	78.1	87.1	91.7	84.3
19	30	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	80.8	85.9	77.1	88.8	83.0
20=	22=	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	79.5	83.5	81.9	91.7	82.9
20=	25	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	80.5	85.7	84.4	82.0	82.9
22	22=	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	74.3	90.5	86.4	84.3	82.5
23=	15	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	80.1	83.3	80.9	88.5	82.4
23=	24	University of Michigan	United States	80.0	80.2	84.2	91.4	82.4
25	19	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	76.5	86.8	83.9	86.9	82.3
26	14	Princeton University	United States	79.6	80.8	88.5	85.6	82.2
27=	27=	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	80.4	83.6	85.5	79.4	82.0
27=	27=	University of Toronto	Canada	78.7	81.1	87.3	87.3	82.0
29	31	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	76.7	86.2	82.2	86.0	81.8
30	20=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	77.9	79.4	85.7	92.4	81.7
31	50	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	77.8	83.3	79.6	89.6	81.5
32=	29	Technische Universität München	Germany	78.4	84.5	77.9	85.2	81.2
32=	34	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	84.2	71.6	84.7	88.8	81.2
34	32	Columbia University	United States	75.5	78.9	90.8	86.9	80.5
35	33	The University of Melbourne	Australia	73.0	89.0	82.5	79.9	80.3
36	49	Peking University	China	74.0	88.0	76.7	83.8	80.1
37=	41=	Aalborg University	Denmark	76.6	72.2	88.6	93.7	79.6
37=	51-100	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	66.9	80.9	93.2	97.3	79.6
39	44=	Cornell University	United States	76.7	77.3	86.4	83.4	79.3
40=	41=	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	72.5	84.1	80.4	86.0	79.2
40=	36	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	75.6	83.5	78.1	81.5	79.2
42	35	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	78.6	82.0	78.1	74.1	78.9
43	38	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	67.1	85.8	85.9	87.7	78.6
44	39	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	69.3	89.5	77.2	82.0	78.5
45=	51-100	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	70.1	82.0	85.7	86.0	78.4
45=	40	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	68.4	85.6	78.5	90.7	78.4
47	43	Purdue University	United States	75.1	77.7	79.8	84.7	78.0
48=	51-100	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	73.4	78.7	78.9	86.5	77.8
48=	51-100	University of British Columbia	Canada	71.3	76.7	86.8	88.5	77.8
50	44=	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	71.6	80.9	82.8	82.0	77.6