The most recent Times Higher Ed World University Rankings list the best universities for science and technology, and 13 U.S. universities are among the top 20. An additional eight U.S. schools made the top 50. Public universities are very well represented in the rankings.
The Times rankings are based on the following criteria:
- Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
- Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
- Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
- Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
- International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).
Here are the top 20 universities for engineering and technology:
1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Caltech
4. Princeton
5. Cambridge
6. Imperial College London
7. Oxford
8. Swiss Federal Institute Zurich
9. UCLA
10. UC Berkeley
11. Georgia Tech
12. Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne
13. National University of Singapore
14. UT Austin
15. Michigan
16. Carnegie Mellon
17. Cornell
18. Illinois
19. Northwestern
19. Delft University of Technology
The following U.S. universities are among the top 50 in the world in engineering and technology:
22. UC Santa Barbara
27. UW Madison
32. Columbia
33. Washington
40. Rice
45. Purdue
49. Minnesota
50. UC San Diego