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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #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 |
| #23 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
78.8 | 79.8 | 70.0 | 86.3 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
79.0 | 78.4 | 75.7 | 83.0 |
| #21 |
Cornell University
United States |
79.2 | 78.9 | 75.1 | 83.8 |
| #20 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
81.3 | 69.2 | 80.9 | 97.8 |
| #19 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
82.0 | 73.2 | 81.1 | 94.7 |
| #18 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
82.1 | 90.2 | 67.5 | 86.0 |
| #17 | 82.5 | 74.2 | 88.9 | 87.0 | |
| #16 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.6 | 82.2 | 80.2 | 85.6 |
| #15 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
82.8 | 84.7 | 80.0 | 83.1 |
| #14 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
82.9 | 79.9 | 81.6 | 88.1 |
| #13 |
Princeton University
United States |
83.1 | 81.4 | 79.1 | 89.4 |
| #12 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
83.2 | 88.6 | 66.8 | 92.4 |
| #11 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
83.3 | 77.1 | 89.7 | 85.2 |
| #10 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
83.5 | 88.2 | 95.2 | 65.4 |
| #9 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
85.7 | 78.9 | 87.1 | 93.3 |
| #8 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
86.3 | 87.5 | 78.5 | 92.6 |
| #7 |
Harvard University
United States |
86.8 | 83.4 | 90.0 | 88.0 |
| #6 | 87.0 | 85.0 | 86.6 | 89.9 | |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.8 | 82.5 | 95.0 | 90.9 |
| #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 |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
94.1 | 95.8 | 89.4 | 96.5 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
95.6 | 100.0 | 94.6 | 90.7 |
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