In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Engineering Mechanical 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	97.5	93.0	99.4	98.1
2	2	Stanford University	United States	94.5	92.9	100.0	100.0	95.7
3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.8	100.0	89.5	92.8	93.7
4	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	91.7	87.6	98.2	92.8	91.6
5	6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	89.1	91.6	90.5	88.6	90.0
6	5	University of Michigan	United States	98.3	79.5	84.4	92.0	89.6
7	10	Harvard University	United States	81.4	98.1	98.3	84.8	89.5
8=	8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	84.3	93.7	91.3	92.4	89.4
8=	9	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	83.8	98.9	88.7	86.3	89.4
10	7	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	86.6	84.2	86.0	93.5	86.8
11	11	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	89.7	83.5	86.8	85.3	86.7
12	14	The University of Tokyo	Japan	87.1	89.9	79.3	85.8	86.6
13	17=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	78.7	92.2	89.2	89.5	85.9
14	15	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	84.2	89.2	86.6	82.7	85.8
15	16	Tsinghua University	China	81.3	92.7	79.1	89.9	85.7
16	17=	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	80.6	87.9	80.7	89.1	84.1
17	13	Purdue University	United States	87.6	79.9	79.7	84.8	83.7
18	22	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	78.8	91.4	79.6	82.7	83.3
19	21	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79.3	80.4	94.3	85.8	82.9
20	12	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	81.4	85.1	79.5	83.8	82.6
21	26	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	77.6	82.8	88.6	88.6	82.5
22	30	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	74.6	85.6	86.5	89.5	81.9
23	20	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	81.4	76.3	86.0	89.5	81.8
24	49=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	74.6	83.2	92.0	85.8	81.5
25	25	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	82.8	81.5	78.9	78.5	81.2
26	24	Northwestern University	United States	75.9	76.6	94.2	86.3	80.4
27	19	Technische Universität München	Germany	79.5	83.3	79.4	77.1	80.3
28=	40	Kyoto University	Japan	75.8	87.4	77.3	79.1	80.0
28=	46=	Peking University	China	65.4	88.8	92.2	89.1	80.0
28=	23	The University of Melbourne	Australia	72.5	92.7	82.5	71.8	80.0
31	32	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	73.9	84.4	78.4	88.2	79.9
32	34=	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	79.1	85.7	75.7	72.6	79.6
33	28	Cornell University	United States	74.5	77.2	91.2	83.8	79.2
34	37	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	66.7	90.7	81.8	86.3	79.1
35	34=	Princeton University	United States	77.1	77.6	88.8	77.1	79.0
36	27	Cranfield University	United Kingdom	80.2	79.4	77.2	73.4	78.5
37=	33	The University of Sydney	Australia	72.9	85.4	84.0	71.8	78.2
37=	34=	University of Toronto	Canada	74.1	76.7	86.7	83.8	78.2
39	31	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	69.2	83.3	89.0	79.1	77.9
40=	51-100	Tohoku University	Japan	75.7	76.7	79.9	82.1	77.6
40=		Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1	France	83.1	81.2	69.6	64.0	77.6
42	42=	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	73.6	74.7	85.0	82.1	76.9
43	51-100	University of Texas at Austin	United States	67.6	75.8	91.2	88.6	76.8
44	46=	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	68.0	85.0	86.5	73.4	76.7
45	42=	Texas A&M University	United States	75.1	75.2	78.2	82.1	76.6
46=	39	McGill University	Canada	73.9	76.3	80.9	79.1	76.5
46=	38	Pennsylvania State University	United States	75.1	71.0	82.7	84.8	76.5
48	51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	71.6	78.6	83.5	77.1	76.3
49=	29	Monash University	Australia	61.3	89.8	84.9	79.7	76.2
49=	41	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	73.2	76.6	82.7	77.1	76.2