Rank Institution Country 2006
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
2 University of California, Berkeley USA
3 Indian Institutes of Technology India
4 Imperial College London UK
5 Stanford University USA
6 Cambridge University UK
7 Tokyo University Japan
8 National University of Singapore Singapore
9 California Institute of Technology USA
10 Carnegie Mellon University USA
11 Oxford University UK
12 ETH Zurich Switzerland
13 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
14 Tsing Hua University China
15 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
16 Melbourne University Australia
17 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Hong Kong
18 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
19 New South Wales University Australia
20 Beijing University China
21 Kyoto University Japan
22 Georgia Institute of Technology USA
23 Harvard University USA
24 Australian National University Australia
25 Sydney University Australia
26 Ecole Polytechnique France
27 University of Toronto Canada
28= Cornell University USA 28= Monash University Australia
30= University of Illinois USA
30= Technion — Israel Institute of Technology Isarael
32 Technical University Munich Germany
33 Princeton University USA
34 University of California, Los Angeles USA
35 University of Texas at Austin USA
36 University of Michigan USA
37 Korea Advanced Institution of Science & Technology South Korea
38 Queensland University Australia
39 Aachen RWTH Germany
40 Purdue University USA
41 China University of Science & Technology China
41 Manchester University & Umist UK
43 Auckland University New Zeland
43 National Taiwan University Taiwan
45 Ecole Polytech Fdrale de Lausanne Switzerland
46 Technical University Denmark Denmark
47 Vienna University of Technology Austria
48 University of California, San Diego USA
48 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
50 McGill University Canada
51 British Columbia University Canada
52 Seoul National University South Korea
53 Helsinki University of Technology Finland
53 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
55 Osaka University Japan
56 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
57 Yale University USA
58 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia
59 Waterloo University Canada
60 Texas A&M University USA
61 University of Massachusetts [Amherst] USA
62 Technical University Berlin Germany
63 Catholic University of Louvain (French) Belgium
63 Polytechnic University of Milan Italy
65 University of Wisconsin USA
66 Edinburgh University UK
67 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
68 Indian Institutes of Management India
69 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
70 Queensland University of Technology Australia
71 Virginia Polytechnic Institute USA
72 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
73 Karlsruhe University Germany
74 University of Adelaide Australia
75 University of Columbia USA
76 Stuttgart University Germany
77 Nagoya University Japan
77 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA
79 Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium
79 Twente University Netherlands
81 Pennsylvania University USA 82 Maryland University USA
83 Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris France
83 Sydney Technical University Australia
85 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
85 Johns Hopkins University USA
87 Norwegian University Science & Technology Norway
88 RMIT University Australia
89 Birmingham University UK
90 Penn State University USA
90 Tohoku University Japan
90 Washington University USA
93 Sheffield University UK
94 University of California, Santa Barbara USA
95 Boston University USA
95 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
97 Fudan University China
98 Northwestern University USA
99 Nanjing University China
100 Pierre and Marie Curie University France
Source: 2009 World Ranking (Engineering)