World's Best Universities
Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering students take many math and science classes, along with lab work. Electrical engineers work with many aspects of electronic devices, from MP3 players to supercomputers. These are the world's top universities for electrical engineering. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
95.6 | 100.0 | 94.6 | 90.7 |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
94.1 | 95.8 | 89.4 | 96.5 |
| #3 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
90.0 | 92.2 | 85.5 | 91.6 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
90.0 | 85.7 | 100.0 | 85.6 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.8 | 82.5 | 95.0 | 90.9 |
| #6 | 87.0 | 85.0 | 86.6 | 89.9 | |
| #7 |
Harvard University
United States |
86.8 | 83.4 | 90.0 | 88.0 |
| #8 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
86.3 | 87.5 | 78.5 | 92.6 |
| #9 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
85.7 | 78.9 | 87.1 | 93.3 |
| #10 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
83.5 | 88.2 | 95.2 | 65.4 |
| #11 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
83.3 | 77.1 | 89.7 | 85.2 |
| #12 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
83.2 | 88.6 | 66.8 | 92.4 |
| #13 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.1 | 81.4 | 79.1 | 89.4 |
| #14 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
82.9 | 79.9 | 81.6 | 88.1 |
| #15 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
82.8 | 84.7 | 80.0 | 83.1 |
| #16 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.6 | 82.2 | 80.2 | 85.6 |
| #17 | 82.5 | 74.2 | 88.9 | 87.0 | |
| #18 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
82.1 | 90.2 | 67.5 | 86.0 |
| #19 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
82.0 | 73.2 | 81.1 | 94.7 |
| #20 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
81.3 | 69.2 | 80.9 | 97.8 |
| #21 |
Cornell University
United States |
79.2 | 78.9 | 75.1 | 83.8 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
79.0 | 78.4 | 75.7 | 83.0 |
| #23 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
78.8 | 79.8 | 70.0 | 86.3 |
| #24 |
Tsinghua University
China |
78.7 | 77.5 | 87.1 | 71.9 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
78.7 | 66.0 | 74.2 | 100.0 |