World's Best Universities
Civil Engineering
Students who study civil engineering can specialize in fields such as construction or transportation engineering, and then after graduation, go on to design bridges, roads, buildings, and other structures. These are the world's top universities for civil engineering. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #31 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
72.9 | 66.4 | 76.4 | 83.7 |
| #39 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
72.4 | 65.9 | 76.4 | 82.5 |
| #35 |
Columbia University
United States |
72.6 | 67.6 | 76.3 | 79.7 |
| #24 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
75.1 | 82.7 | 75.6 | 55.4 |
| #43 |
Princeton University
United States |
72.1 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 73.0 |
| #26 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
73.7 | 75.2 | 74.6 | 68.7 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
73.5 | 77.4 | 72.4 | 65.6 |
| #47 |
Lund University
Sweden |
70.7 | 58.3 | 71.7 | 100.0 |
| #42 | 72.2 | 70.5 | 71.4 | 77.5 | |
| #31 | 72.9 | 76.3 | 70.4 | 67.9 | |
| #25 |
Purdue University
United States |
74.3 | 79.8 | 70.1 | 66.6 |
| #44 | 71.5 | 64.5 | 68.6 | 93.3 | |
| #23 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
75.2 | 84.7 | 68.0 | 62.3 |
| #31 |
University of Michigan
United States |
72.9 | 76.2 | 67.2 | 73.0 |
| #12 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
78.9 | 88.3 | 66.6 | 73.7 |
| #29 |
Texas A&M University
United States |
73.4 | 84.1 | 65.8 | 58.2 |
| #37 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
72.5 | 75.4 | 65.6 | 75.4 |
| #48 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
70.6 | 71.4 | 64.0 | 78.4 |
| #20 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
76.3 | 76.7 | 62.8 | 95.7 |
| #21 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
76.2 | 84.1 | 62.6 | 77.0 |
| #34 |
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Saudi Arabia |
72.8 | 78.2 | 59.5 | 79.1 |
| #50 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong |
70.5 | 68.0 | 59.3 | 93.5 |
| #8 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
81.8 | 100.0 | 59.1 | 70.3 |
| #48 | 70.6 | 73.9 | 55.7 | 84.6 | |
| #39 |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
United States |
72.4 | 78.0 | 53.7 | 86.2 |













