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

 

2016	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	Colorado School of Mines	United States	100.0	88.8	83.2	80.5	92.3
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	73.7	95.4	91.4	91.0	83.3
3	Stanford University	United States	72.6	92.2	91.6	92.7	82.4
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	68.7	99.7	88.7	84.4	80.3
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	65.0	100.0	92.8	91.4	80.1
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	69.3	86.2	91.8	91.9	79.4
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	71.0	86.9	89.3	85.5	79.1
8	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	66.4	84.3	91.0	95.0	78.0
9	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	60.8	86.8	100.0	99.7	77.7
10=	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	73.7	85.9	82.1	71.3	77.0
10=	The University of Tokyo	Japan	67.6	91.0	83.3	83.4	77.0
12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	65.9	74.5	93.2	94.2	76.0
13	McGill University	Canada	73.9	75.5	85.0	73.7	75.9
14	University of British Columbia	Canada	71.2	77.7	85.0	78.6	75.7
15	Kyoto University	Japan	67.4	86.3	82.1	79.3	75.2
16	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	68.7	85.6	83.0	72.9	74.9
17	Peking University	China	59.8	90.2	87.4	89.7	74.5
18	Universidad de Chile	Chile	69.4	79.5	84.6	72.9	74.2
19	Curtin University	Australia	62.6	76.1	91.5	91.9	74.0
20	University of Texas at Austin	United States	66.4	73.4	85.1	87.9	73.8
21	The University of Melbourne	Australia	60.1	89.1	89.6	77.3	72.9
22	Texas A&M University	United States	67.8	73.9	80.0	81.1	72.8
23	Mines, ParisTech	France	73.5	83.7	70.4	55.1	72.3
24	Tohoku University	Japan	65.8	76.6	83.9	75.9	72.2
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	66.0	90.7	78.3	61.6	72.1
26=	Pennsylvania State University	United States	66.7	60.1	89.7	87.0	71.9
26=	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	66.3	81.0	85.8	64.8	71.9
26=	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia	67.1	85.8	78.6	62.7	71.9
26=	Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg	Germany	74.3	57.7	83.7	71.3	71.9
30	University of Toronto	Canada	62.6	74.0	88.0	79.3	71.2
31	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	62.3	82.5	78.8	76.6	71.0
32	Queen's University	Canada	67.5	70.4	83.9	69.6	70.9
33	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia	56.8	76.5	87.7	87.9	70.0
34	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	70.8	73.1	73.7	57.8	69.7
35	The University of Adelaide	Australia	60.2	74.8	86.7	76.6	69.6
36	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	Brazil	62.5	75.2	81.1	73.7	69.5
37	The University of Sydney	Australia	56.8	84.3	86.0	73.7	69.2
38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	59.7	60.7	93.0	87.9	69.1
39=	Monash University	Australia	52.9	87.8	87.1	79.3	69.0
39=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	56.2	90.1	80.9	71.3	69.0
41	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	63.3	69.9	84.5	70.5	68.9
42=	Columbia University	United States	53.6	74.9	91.6	88.4	68.8
42=	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	60.4	85.7	77.1	65.9	68.8
44	University of Alberta	Canada	61.3	64.5	84.1	82.2	68.5
45	University of Utah	United States	71.8	48.2	80.1	70.5	68.1
46=	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)	Saudi Arabia	70.8	84.3	64.3	40.2	67.9
46=	University of Arizona	United States	60.4	50.1	93.2	91.4	67.9
48	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	50.9	81.1	89.1	85.0	67.8
49	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	50.4	83.9	86.3	85.0	67.7
50=	Tsinghua University	China	59.3	90.0	74.2	59.1	67.6
50=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	59.7	68.8	83.4	76.6	67.6