The QS World University Rankings by Subject includes an electrical engineering ranking, which features 300 of the world’s top universities in this field.
Read on for the top 10 table and an overview of the world’s top electrical engineering universities in different regions, or click here to view the full results.
| Top 10 Electrical Engineering Schools in the World Based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016
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| Rank
| Name of Institution
| Location
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| 1
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
| United States
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| 2
| Stanford University
| United States
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| 3
| University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
| United States
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| 4
| University of Cambridge
| United Kingdom
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| 5
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
| United States
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| 6
| National University of Singapore (NUS)
| Singapore
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| 7
| ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
| Switzerland
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| 8
| Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
| Singapore
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| 9
| Harvard University
| United States
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| 10
| Imperial College London
| United Kingdom
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Top electrical engineering schools in the US & Canada
Always a strong contender, the US is home to 57 entries in the electrical engineering ranking, with five in the top 10 and a further 11 in the top 50. This includes California Institute of Technology (Caltech, 12th for electrical engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, 14th), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (18th) and the University of Michigan (joint 23rd).
Canada claims 15 of the world’s top electrical engineering universities, with four in the top 100; the University of Toronto and the University of British Colombia are in the top 50, while McGill University and the University of Waterloo are ranked 51-100.
United States：
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2Stanford University
3University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
5University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
9Harvard University
12California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
14Georgia Institute of Technology
18University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
=23University of Michigan
26Princeton University
=27Carnegie Mellon University
30University of Texas at Austin
=32University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
34Columbia University
39Cornell University
47Purdue University
51-100The Ohio State University
51-100Texas A&M University
51-100University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
51-100University of Pennsylvania
51-100University of Southern California
51-100University of Washington
51-100University of Wisconsin-Madison
51-100Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
51-100Yale University
101-150Duke University
101-150Johns Hopkins University
101-150Michigan State University
101-150New York University (NYU)
101-150North Carolina State University
101-150Pennsylvania State University s
101-150Rice University
101-150University of California, Irvine
101-150University of Florida
101-150University of Maryland, College Park
151-200Arizona State University
151-200Boston University
151-200Illinois Institute of Technology
151-200Northwestern University
151-200Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
151-200University of California, Davis
151-200University of Colorado Boulder
151-200University of Minnesota
201-250Brown University
201-250Drexel University
201-250Northeastern University
201-250The University of Arizona
201-250University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
201-250University of Notre Dame
201-250The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
201-250University of Texas Dallas
201-250University of Virginia
251-300Iowa State University
251-300University of Massachusetts Amherst
251-300University of Pittsburgh
251-300Washington State University
251-300Washington University in St. Louis
Canada:
=27University of Toronto
=48University of British Columbia
51-100McGill University
51-100University of Waterloo
101-150Université de Montréal
101-150University of Alberta
151-200McMaster University
151-200Queen's University at Kingston
151-200University of Calgary
201-250Concordia University
201-250University of Ottawa
201-250University of Victoria
201-250The University of Western Ontario
251-300Carleton University
251-300Université du Québec
Top electrical engineering schools in Europe
The UK has 27 representatives featured in the electrical engineering ranking, including three positions in the top 10 (above). Four more UK universities are ranked in the global top 100 for this subject: the University of Manchester, UCL (University College London), the University of Edinburgh and the University of Southampton.
Italy is another strong country in this subject, with 12 entries in the ranking, including Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano in the top 50. Germany has 10 entries, again with two in the top 50:Technische Universität München (TU Munich) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin).
Nine more leading electrical engineering departments can be found in Spain, with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ranked in the top 100. France offers seven representatives, with new entriesCentraleSupélec and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 the highest ranked at 101-150. Next up is Ireland with five top universities in this field, of which two are in the top 150.
Heading north to the Nordic countries, Sweden claims five of the world’s leading universities for electrical engineering, including the highest-ranked Nordic entrant, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology (17th), as well as two more universities in the top 100. Denmark has three top electrical engineering universities, led by Aalborg University (joint 37th). Finland has two entries, including Aalto University in the 101-150 range, while Norway’s sole representative, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is also ranked 101-150.
Elsewhere in Europe, the Netherlands is home to three more top universities to study electrical engineering, including Delft University of Technology in 31st place (up from 50th last year). Belgium, Greece and Russia also have three entries, the highest-ranked of which are the Belgian Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in the top 100 and the Greek National Technical University of Athens in the top 150.
Each home to two of the world’s top electrical engineering schools are Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland. Of these, Swiss universities perform the best, with ETH Zurich in 7th place andEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) not far behind at 13th in this subject.
Finally, Hungary, Portugal and new entrant Serbia each feature with one entry, with Portugal’s University of Porto the highest ranked of these, in the 151-200 range.
United Kingdom：
4University of Cambridge
10Imperial College London
11University of Oxford
51-100The University of Manchester
51-100UCL (University College London)
51-100The University of Edinburgh
51-100University of Southampton
101-150King's College London
101-150The University of Nottingham
101-150The University of Sheffield
101-150The University of Warwick
101-150University of Birmingham
101-150University of Bristol
101-150University of Strathclyde
101-150University of Surrey
151-200Durham University
151-200Queen's University Belfast
151-200University of Glasgow
201-250Cardiff University
201-250Loughborough University
201-250Newcastle University
201-250Queen Mary University of London
201-250University of Leeds
201-250University of Liverpool
251-300Brunel University London
251-300Heriot-Watt University
251-300University of Bath
Italy：
=40Politecnico di Torino
44Politecnico di Milano
51-100Sapienza University of Rome
51-100Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
101-150Università di Padova
151-200University of Pisa
201-250University of Naples - Federico II
201-250Università degli Studi di Pavia
201-250University of Rome University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
251-300Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
251-300University of Genoa
251-300University of Trento
Germany：
=32Technical University of Munich
50Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
51-100KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
51-100RWTH Aachen University
101-150Technische Universität Darmstadt
101-150Technische Universität Dresden
101-150Universität Stuttgart
201-250Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
201-250Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
251-300TU Dortmund University
Spain:
51-100Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
101-150Politécnica de Madrid
151-200Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
151-200Universidad Politècnica de València
151-200University of Barcelona
201-250Universidad de Sevilla
201-250Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
251-300Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
251-300Universidad de Zaragoza
France:
101-150CentraleSupélec
101-150Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
151-200Ecole Polytechnique
151-200Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology
201-250TELECOM ParisTech
251-300Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologies
251-300Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
Ireland:
101-150University College Cork
101-150University College Dublin
151-200Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
251-300Dublin Institute of Technology
251-300National University of Ireland Galway
Sweden:
17KTH Royal Institute of Technology
51-100Chalmers University of Technology
51-100Lund University
101-150Linköping University
101-150Uppsala University
Denmark:
=37Aalborg University
51-100Technical University of Denmark
251-300Aarhus University
Finland:
101-150Aalto University
151-200Tampere University of Technology
Norway:
101-150Norwegian University of Science And Technology
Netherlands:
31Delft University of Technology
51-100Eindhoven University of Technology
151-200University of Twente
Belgium:
51-100KU Leuven
151-200Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
201-250Ghent University
Greece:
101-150National Technical University of Athens
201-250Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
251-300University of Patras
Russia:
201-250Bauman Moscow State Technical University
201-250Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University
251-300Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)
251-300National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Austria:
101-150Vienna University of Technology
251-300Graz University of Technology
Czech Republic:
151-200Czech Technical University in Prague
201-250Brno University of Technology
Poland:
101-150Warsaw University of Technology
251-300Wroclaw University of Technology
Switzerland:
7ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
13Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Hungary:
251-300Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Portugal:
151-200University of Porto
Serbia:
251-300University of Belgrade
Top electrical engineering schools in Asia
China is the leading Asian country in this subject, with 21 entries in the ranking, five of which are in the top 100. These include Tsinghua University, Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the top 50.
South Korea has 12 entries in the electrical engineering ranking, of which half are in the top 100, including KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (joint 20th) and Seoul National University (29th).
Japan is also home to 12 of the world’s top electrical engineering universities, including two in the top 50: the University of Tokyo (16th) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (19th). A further three Japanese schools are ranked within the top 100.
Taiwan is next with 11 representatives featured in the electrical engineering ranking, including three in the top 50: National Taiwan University (NTU), National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University.
Malaysia and India each boast eight of the world’s top electrical engineering schools, with six of India’s entries in the top 100. Malaysia’s highest ranked university is Universiti Malaya (joint 37th), while theIndian Institute of Technology Delhi leads the way for India in joint 45th place.
All of Hong Kong’s five entries boast positions in the top 100 of the electrical engineering ranking. The three highest-ranked are the Chinese University of Hong Kong (joint 20th), the University of Hong Kong (22nd) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST; 25th).
Pakistan, Thailand and Singapore each offer two top electrical engineering schools, with both of Singapore’s entries boasting positions in the top 10 (see the table above). Indonesia also has one entry in the ranking, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) at 251-300.
China:
15Tsinghua University
36Peking University
=45Shanghai Jiao Tong University
51-100Fudan University
51-100Zhejiang University
101-150Beijing Institute of Technology
101-150Nanjing University
101-150University of Science and Technology of China
151-200Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
151-200Harbin Institute of Technology
151-200Huazhong University of Science and Technology
151-200Shanghai University
151-200Xi’an Jiaotong University
201-250Southeast University
201-250Wuhan University
251-300Beihang University (former BUAA)
251-300Beijing Jiaotong University
251-300Beijing University of Technology
251-300Sun Yat-sen University
251-300Tianjin University
251-300University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
South Korea:
=20KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
29Seoul National University
51-100Korea University
51-100Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)
51-100Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
51-100Yonsei University
101-150Hanyang University
151-200Kyung Hee University
201-250Pusan National University
251-300Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
251-300Kyungpook National University
251-300Sogang University
Japan:
16The University of Tokyo
19Tokyo Institute of Technology
51-100Kyoto University
51-100Osaka University
51-100Tohoku University
101-150Nagoya University
151-200Hokkaido University
151-200Keio University
151-200Kyushu University
151-200Waseda University
251-300University of Tsukuba
251-300Yokohama National University
Taiwan,China:
=23National Taiwan University (NTU)
=40National Tsing Hua University
=48National Chiao Tung University
51-100National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
101-150National Sun Yat-sen University
101-150National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)
151-200National Central University
201-250National Chung Hsing University
201-250National Taipei University of Technology
251-300National Chung Cheng University
251-300National Taiwan Normal University
Malaysia:
=37Universiti Malaya (UM)
51-100Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
51-100Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
101-150Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
101-150Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
151-200Multimedia University (MMU)
201-250Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Petronas)
251-300Universiti Teknologi MARA - UiTM
India:
=45Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
51-100Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
51-100Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
51-100Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
51-100Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
51-100Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
151-200Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)
201-250Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)
Hong Kong,China:
=20The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
22The University of Hong Kong
25The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
51-100City University of Hong Kong
51-100The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Pakistan:
201-250National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST) Islamabad
251-300University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore
Thailand:
151-200Chulalongkorn University
251-300King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Singapore:
6National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
8Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
Indonesia:
251-300Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
Top electrical engineering schools in Australia & New Zealand
Australia is home to 15 of the world’s top electrical engineering schools, seven of which are in the top 100. All boasting positions in the top 50 are the University of Melbourne, Australian National University and the University of New South Wales.
New Zealand has two universities in the electrical engineering ranking, with the University of Auckland in the top 100 and the University of Canterbury ranked 151-200.
Australia:
35The University of Melbourne
42The Australian National University
43The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia)
51-100Monash University
51-100RMIT University
51-100The University of Queensland
51-100The University of Sydney
101-150The University of Adelaide
101-150The University of Western Australia
101-150University of Technology Sydney
151-200Curtin University
151-200Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
201-250The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)
201-250University of South Australia
201-250University of Wollongong
New Zealand:
51-100The University of Auckland
151-200University of Canterbury
Top electrical engineering schools in Latin America
Of the 15 Latin American entries in the ranking, eight can be found in Brazil, with Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) the highest-ranked at 51-100, while two more Brazilian universities are in the top 150. Mexico has three entries in the electrical engineering ranking, while Chile has two. Of these, the highest-ranked is Mexico’s Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) at 101-150.
Elsewhere in Latin America, Argentina and Colombia each offer one top university for electrical engineering – the Universidad Nacional de Colombia is ranked 101-150 while Argentina’s Universidad de Buenos Aires is placed 251-300.
Brazil:
51-100Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
101-150Universidade de São Paulo
101-150Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
151-200Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
201-250UNESP
201-250Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul
251-300Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
251-300Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Mexico:
101-150Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
151-200Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)
251-300Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Chile:
201-250Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
251-300Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (USM)
Argentina:
251-300Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Colombia:
201-250Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Top electrical engineering schools in the Middle East
Nine more of the world’s top electrical engineering universities can be found in the Middle East. Four of these are in Turkey, with Middle East Technical University the highest ranked at 101-150. Saudi Arabia has three entries in the electrical engineering ranking, including King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in the 151-200 range.
Last but not least, Israel has two representatives in the ranking, with Technion – Israel Institute of Technologyperforming best at 101-150.
Turkey:
101-150Middle East Technical University
151-200Bilkent University
151-200Istanbul Technical University
201-250Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
Saudi Arabia:
151-200King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
201-250King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
201-250King Saud University
Israel:
101-150Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
251-300Tel Aviv University
