Top Electrical Engineering Schools in 2015

Discover the top electrical engineering schools based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020.

This year QS World University Rankings by Subject has been extended to feature more institutions than ever before – and this includes an extension of the electrical engineering ranking to cover the world’s top 300 electrical engineering schools.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject is compiled annually, using a methodology which draws on major global surveys of academics and employers, alongside research citations data.

Read on for a rundown of the leadingelectrical engineering schoolsin each world region, or, click here to access the full interactive ranking table.

Top 10 Electrical Engineering Schools in the World Based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015
Rank	Name of Institution	Location
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
4	Harvard University	United States
5	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
6	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
7=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
7=	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
See the full electrical engineering ranking >

 

Top electrical engineering schools in the US & Canada

Among the 300 universities featured in this year’s electrical engineering school rankings, 58 are claimed by the US and 14 by Canada . As well as occupying the top four positions, the US offers 23 more entries in the top 100. Within the top 50, these include the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, 8^th in the QS World University Rankings® 2014/15), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 37^th in the world rankings), the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, 107^th in the world rankings), Princeton University (9^th in the world rankings), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (63^rd in the world rankings), University of Texas at Austin (79^th in the world rankings), University of Michigan (23^rd in the world rankings), Carnegie Mellon University (65^th in the world rankings), Columbia University (14^th in the world rankings), University of California, San Diego (UCSD, 59^th in the world rankings), Purdue University (102^nd in the world rankings), Cornell University (19^th in the world rankings) and the University of Southern California (131^st in the world rankings).

Of Canada’s 14 representatives, four make it into the world’s top 100: the University of Toronto (20^th in the world rankings), McGill University (21^st in the world rankings), the University of British Colombia (43^rd in the world rankings) and the University of Waterloo (169^th in the world rankings).

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Top electrical engineering schools in Europe

Taking three of the top 10 positions, the UK is the best-performing country in Europe in these electrical engineering school rankings, with 27 representatives in total. Also within the top 100 are the University of Manchester (30^th in the world rankings), UCL (University College London, 5^th in the world rankings), the University of Edinburgh (17^th in the world rankings and the University of Southampton (94^th in the world rankings).

Italy claims 12 entries in the electrical engineering ranking, including Politecnico di Torino in 36^th place (365^th in the world rankings) and Politecnico di Milano in 39^th (229^th in the world rankings). Germany claims 11 entrants, and similarly boasts two among the world’s top 50. These are Technische Universität München (TU Munich, 54^th in the world rankings) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin, 192^nd in the world rankings).

Up next is Spain with nine top electrical engineering universities, of which just one, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (337^th in the world rankings) is ranked within the top 100 worldwide. France meanwhile claims seven schools in the electrical engineering ranking; although none rank within the top 100, specialist engineering school Supélec comes within the 101-150 range.

Ireland, despite being its small size, offers five top electrical engineering schools. These include University College Cork (UCC, 230^th in the world rankings) and University College Dublin (UCD, 139^th in the world rankings), both within the top 150 worldwide.

Also with five schools featured is Sweden, including KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in 16^th place (110^th in the world rankings). Sticking with Scandinavia, you’ll also find two top electrical engineering schools in both Denmark and Finland, including the Danish Aalborg University in joint 41^st (363^rd in the world rankings) and the Finnish Aalto University at 101-150 (187^th in the world rankings). Norway meanwhile offers just representative: the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ranked 151-200 (246^th in the world rankings).

Heading southwest towards the Netherlands, there are three schools featured, including Delft University of Technology in 50^th place (86^th in the world rankings). Belgium also offers three top schools for electrical engineering, including KU Leuven in the top 100 (82^nd in the world rankings).

Each with a pair of institutions featured in the electrical engineering ranking are Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland and Switzerland. While all four countries have one school within the top 200, Switzerland excels with ETH Zurich in 5^th place (12^th in the world rankings) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 26^th (17^th in the world rankings).

Hungary, Portugal and Russia meanwhile each have one institution featured in this ranking, of which the leading entrant is Portugal’s University of Porto at 151-200 (293^rd in the world rankings).

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Top electrical engineering schools in Asia

The vastest country in mainland Asia, China offers 23 institutions featured in the electrical engineering school rankings, including six within the top 100. Of these, Tsinghua University (47^th in the world rankings), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (104^th in the world rankings) and Peking University (57^th in the world rankings) all rank within the top 50.

South Korea has the second-highest number of top electrical engineering universities in Asia, with 13. These include KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 22^nd place (51^st in the world rankings) and Seoul National University in 31^st (SNU, 31^st in the world rankings).

Of Japan’s 12 representatives, two are ranked in the world’s top 50 for electrical engineering: the University of Tokyo in 18^th place (31^st in the world rankings) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 30^th (68^th in the world rankings).The neighboring island of Taiwan meanwhile offers 11 top electrical engineering universities, including National Taiwan University in 15^th place (NTU, 76^th in the world rankings) and National Tsing Hua University in joint 41^st (167^th in the world rankings).

Both with eight institutions featured are Malaysia and India. In India, the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Technology in Bombay (IITB, 222^nd in the world rankings), Delhi (IITD, 235^th in the world rankings) and Madras (IITM, 322^nd in the world rankings) are all ranked within the top 100 for electrical engineering. Meanwhile in Malaysia, Universiti Malaya (UM, 151st in the world rankings) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM, 309^th in the world rankings) are also in the world’s top 100.

Despite its small size, Hong Kong excels in the electrical engineering school rankings with five representatives, four of which are among the world’s top 50. There are the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST, 40^th in the world rankings) the University of Hong Kong (HKU, 28^th in the world rankings), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK, 46^th in the world rankings) and City University of Hong Kong (108^th in the world rankings).

While Thailand has four schools featured among the world’s top 300, including Chulalongkorn University (243^rd in the world rankings), Singapore offers two. Both of these, NUS (22^nd in the world rankings) and NTU (39^th in the world rankings), are ranked within the world’s top 10 (see table above).

Lastly, both Pakistan and Indonesia have one institution each among the world’s 300 top electrical engineering schools. These are the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad (481-490 in the world rankings) and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, 461-470 in the world rankings) respectively.

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Top electrical engineering schools in Latin America

Home to nine of the world’s top electrical engineering schools, Brazil surpasses all other Latin American countries in this ranking. Of these schools, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, 206^th in the world rankings) is placed joint 47^th and the Universidade de São Paulo (USP, 132^nd in the world rankings) is ranked 51-100.

Chile and Mexico, meanwhile, boast two top electrical engineering universities each. Chile’s leader in this field is the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (167^th in the world rankings) while Mexico’s highest entrant is the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, 175^th in the world rankings).

The only other Latin American country featured in the electrical engineering school rankings is Colombia, represented by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (316^th in the world rankings) in the 201-250 range.

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Top electrical engineering schools in Australia & New Zealand

While New Zealand offers two schools in the electrical engineering school rankings, Australia boasts 15, including seven within the world’s top 100. In the top 50 are the University of Melbourne (33^rd in the world rankings), Australian National University (ANU, 25^th in the world), the University of New South Wales (48^th in the world rankings) and the University of Sydney (37^th in the world rankings).

New Zealand’s two representatives are both within the world’s top 200, and are the University of Auckland (92^nd in the world rankings) and the University of Canterbury (242^nd in the world rankings).

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Top electrical engineering schools in the Middle East

Five top electrical engineering universities are claimed by Turkey, and three by Saudi Arabia. Both countries’ highest entrants are ranked in the 101-150 range; these are the Turkish Middle East Technical University (401-410 in the world rankings) and the Saudi King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM, 225^th in the world rankings).

Of the two universities in Israel featured, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (190^th in the world rankings) is the highest ranked, also at 101-150.

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