According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the U.S. is home to 24 of the top 50 engineering and technology universities in the world.
It is also notable that 13 of the 24 U.S. institutions are public universities. The United States also has the top four schools on the Times list.
“The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Engineering and Technology table judges world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world’s top 50 universities for engineering and technology employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.”
Here are the U.S. universities on the list, along with their rank:
1. Caltech
2. Princeton
3. MIT
4. UC Berkeley
5. Stanford
7. UCLA
9. Georgia Tech
13. UT Austin
15. Carnegie Mellon
16. Northwestern
17. UC Santa Barbara
18. Cornell
19. Michigan
20. Illinois
21. Columbia
26. Penn
30. Rice
34. Washington
36. UC San Diego
41. Wisconsin
42. Purdue
45. Minnesota
48. UC Davis
49. Duke