World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Aerospace Engineering

2026 edition, Aerospace Engineering. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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1 Beihang University 1st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
2 Northwestern Polytechnical University 2nd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
3 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 3rd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
4 Beijing Institute of Technology 4th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
5 Harbin Institute of Technology 5th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
6 National University of Defense Technology 6th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
7 Purdue University 7th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
8 Tsinghua University 8th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
9 Georgia Institute of Technology 9th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
10 Delft University of Technology 10th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
12 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 12th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
13 Virginia Tech 13th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
14 Cranfield University 14th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
15 Politecnico di Milano 15th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
16 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 16th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
17 University of Colorado Boulder 17th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
18 California Institute of Technology 18th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
19 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 19th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
20 Sapienza University of Rome 20th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
21 University of Texas at Austin 21st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
22 Xi'an Jiaotong University 22nd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
23 Seoul National University 23rd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
24 Politecnico di Torino 24th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
25 Stanford University 25th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
26 KAIST 26th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
27 University of Canterbury 27th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
28 Zhejiang University 28th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
29 University of Cambridge 29th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
30 York University 30th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
31 University of Maryland, College Park 31st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
32 Texas A&M University 32nd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
33 Imperial College London 33rd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
34 RMIT University 34th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
35 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 35th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
36 Ohio State University 36th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
37 Xidian University 37th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
38 Technical University of Munich 38th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
39 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 39th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
40 Nanyang Technological University 40th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
41 Dalian University of Technology 41st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
42 University of Notre Dame 42nd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
43 University of Naples Federico II 43rd in the world for Aerospace Engineering
44 Université Paris-Saclay 44th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
45 University of Southampton 45th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
46 National University of Singapore 46th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
47 University of Missouri 47th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
48 Sun Yat-sen University 48th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
49 Southeast University 49th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
50 University of Auckland 50th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=51 Tohoku University 51st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=51 University of Oxford 51st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=51 University of Toronto 51st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=51 University of Tokyo 51st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=51 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 51st in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 Johns Hopkins University 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 Peking University 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of California, San Diego 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of Manchester 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of Science and Technology of China 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of New South Wales 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of California, Los Angeles 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of Glasgow 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 University of Bristol 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering
=76 RWTH Aachen University 76th in the world for Aerospace Engineering