The ranking of the world's top 100 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.

Top 100 universities for Engineering and Technology 2013-14

Rank	Institution	Location	Overall score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	93.1
2	Stanford University	United States	91.9
3	University of California, Berkeley	United States	90.6
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	90.5
5	Princeton University	United States	89.5
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	88.8
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.6
8	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	86.9
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	86.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.9
11	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	82.3
12	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.3
13	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	79.8
14	University of Texas at Austin	United States	79.4
15	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	78.9
16	University of Michigan	United States	78.7
17	Cornell University	United States	77.3
18	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	74.3
19	Northwestern University	United States	72.1
20	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	71.0
21	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	70.5
22	University of Toronto	Canada	69.6
23	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	68.9
24	Tsinghua University	China	68.8
25	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Republic of Korea	67.6
26	Technische Universität München	Germany	66.4
27	The University of Tokyo	Japan	66.3
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	65.9
29	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	63.5
30	Columbia University	United States	63.4
31	University of Washington	United States	63.1
32	University of Melbourne	Australia	62.9
33	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	62.2
34	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	62.1
34	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	62.1
36	KU Leuven	Belgium	61.7
37	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	61.0
38	University of Minnesota	United States	60.4
39	Kyoto University	Japan	60.3
39	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	60.3
41	Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)	Republic of Korea	60.0
42	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	59.9
43	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	59.8
43	University of California, San Diego	United States	59.8
45	University of California, Davis	United States	59.7
46	Rice University	United States	59.6
47	Peking University	China	59.1
48	University of British Columbia	Canada	58.6
49	Monash University	Australia	58.1
50	University of Sydney	Australia	57.6
50	Purdue University	United States	57.6
52	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	57.5
53	Ohio State University	United States	57.4
54	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom	57.1
55	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	56.0
56	Pennsylvania State University	United States	55.3
57	École Polytechnique	France	54.8
58	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	54.4
59	McGill University	Canada	54.0
60	University of Pennsylvania	United States	53.4
61	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	53.2
61	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation	53.2
63	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	52.3
64	Tohoku University	Japan	51.4
65	Duke University	United States	51.1
66	Texas A&M University	United States	50.8
67	University of Waterloo	Canada	50.0
68	University of New South Wales	Australia	49.7
69	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	48.9
70	University of California, Irvine	United States	48.5
70	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	48.5
72	University of Delaware	United States	47.8
73	University of Twente	Netherlands	47.6
74	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	47.4
75	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	47.0
75	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	47.0
77	University of California, Riverside	United States	46.5
78	Lund University	Sweden	46.2
79	University of Notre Dame	United States	45.4
80	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	45.3
81	Ghent University	Belgium	45.2
82	Mines ParisTech	France	44.8
83	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	44.5
83	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	44.5
83	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy	44.5
83	Brunel University	United Kingdom	44.5
87	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	44.4
88	Uppsala University	Sweden	44.1
89	University of Utah	United States	44.0
89	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	44.0
89	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	44.0
92	Brown University	United States	43.9
93	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany	43.8
94	University of Pavia	Italy	43.6
95	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	43.5
96	Vienna University of Technology	Austria	43.1
97	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	42.7
98	Bilkent University	Turkey	42.5
99	University of South Australia	Australia	42.4
100	Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble	France	42.3

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can boast that it has helped to bring into the world (in no particular order): the fax machine; the transistor radio; Bose speakers; the global positioning system; the spreadsheet; Technicolor; air conditioning; Hewlett-Packard; the microchip; open courseware; and (of course) the World Wide Web.

So it is little surprise to learn that the 150-year-old US institution is the world number one when it comes to engineering and technology.

The establishment of MIT was promoted in the 1850s by geologist William Barton Rogers, who would become its first president upon its foundation in 1861, days before the outbreak of the American Civil War. Amid the US’ rapid industrialisation, Rogers had conceived the notion of a “polytechnic” institute focusing on technical and scientific education to support the nation’s development, in stark contrast with the Latin- and Greek-dominated university curricula of the day.

Indeed, MIT can lay claim to pioneering entire fields of engineering in the US, including electrical engineering (1882), aeronautical engineering (1914) and nuclear physics (1935), and it boasts nearly 80 Nobel laureates.

Notable alumni include physicist Richard Feynman, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon.