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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #25 |
Purdue University
United States |
74.3 | 79.8 | 70.1 | 66.6 |
| #24 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
75.1 | 82.7 | 75.6 | 55.4 |
| #23 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
75.2 | 84.7 | 68.0 | 62.3 |
| #22 | 75.7 | 78.0 | 82.0 | 60.7 | |
| #21 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
76.2 | 84.1 | 62.6 | 77.0 |
| #20 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
76.3 | 76.7 | 62.8 | 95.7 |
| #19 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
76.4 | 71.6 | 85.3 | 74.9 |
| #18 | 77.0 | 71.8 | 87.5 | 74.1 | |
| #17 |
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Australia |
77.3 | 77.3 | 80.4 | 72.7 |
| #16 |
University of Sydney
Australia |
77.8 | 78.5 | 82.7 | 68.7 |
| #15 |
Tsinghua University
China |
78.0 | 77.0 | 83.5 | 72.1 |
| #14 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
78.5 | 76.2 | 79.6 | 82.6 |
| #13 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
78.6 | 78.9 | 81.0 | 74.2 |
| #12 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
78.9 | 88.3 | 66.6 | 73.7 |
| #11 | 79.0 | 79.6 | 81.8 | 73.5 | |
| #10 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
81.2 | 77.3 | 100.0 | 62.8 |
| #9 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
81.7 | 84.5 | 91.1 | 60.6 |
| #8 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
81.8 | 100.0 | 59.1 | 70.3 |
| #7 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
82.6 | 82.8 | 92.0 | 68.2 |
| #6 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
84.2 | 87.5 | 82.6 | 78.3 |
| #5 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
84.5 | 83.3 | 88.8 | 81.1 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
85.0 | 84.3 | 84.2 | 87.9 |
| #3 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
86.9 | 95.2 | 79.7 | 77.1 |
| #2 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
88.2 | 89.2 | 97.4 | 71.9 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
91.7 | 97.7 | 90.7 | 78.3 |













