World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Environmental Science & Engineering

2026 edition, Environmental Science & Engineering. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Tsinghua University 1st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
2 Peking University 2nd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
3 Nanjing University 3rd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
4 Zhejiang University 4th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
5 Beijing Normal University 5th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
6 Tongji University 6th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
7 Harbin Institute of Technology 7th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
8 Sun Yat-sen University 8th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
9 Delft University of Technology 9th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
10 University of Queensland 10th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
11 Wageningen University & Research 11th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
12 Stanford University 12th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
13 Arizona State University 13th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
14 City University of Hong Kong 14th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
15 Michigan State University 15th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
16 University of Hong Kong 16th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
17 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 17th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
18 Harvard University 18th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=19 Nankai University 19th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=19 University of Maryland, College Park 19th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
21 Cornell University 21st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
22 University of New South Wales 22nd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
23 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 23rd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
24 University of Washington 24th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=25 Fudan University 25th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=25 Stockholm University 25th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
27 ETH Zurich 27th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
28 Tianjin University 28th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
29 University College London 29th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
30 University of Waterloo 30th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
31 University of Toronto 31st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
32 Southern University of Science and Technology 32nd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
33 University of Copenhagen 33rd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
34 Guangdong University of Technology 34th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
35 Utrecht University 35th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
36 Georgia Institute of Technology 36th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
37 University of Exeter 37th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=38 University of British Columbia 38th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=38 University of Tokyo 38th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
40 Princeton University 40th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
41 South China University of Technology 41st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
42 Yale University 42nd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=43 Chongqing University 43rd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=43 East China Normal University 43rd in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
45 University of California, Berkeley 45th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
46 University of Alberta 46th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
47 Shandong University 47th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
48 National University of Singapore 48th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
49 University of Wisconsin-Madison 49th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
50 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 50th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 China Agricultural University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Hohai University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Oxford 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Science and Technology of China 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Wuhan University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Aarhus University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Imperial College London 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Northwest A&F University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Washington University in St. Louis 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Dalian University of Technology 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Nanjing Agricultural University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Xi'an Jiaotong University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Technical University of Denmark 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Texas A&M University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Melbourne 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Minnesota 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Xiamen University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Colorado State University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 University of Leeds 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Adelaide University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=51 Jinan University 51st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Central South University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 McGill University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Nanyang Technological University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Ocean University of China 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Sichuan University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of Colorado Boulder 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of Technology Sydney 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 China University of Geosciences 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of California, Davis 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Hunan University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Seoul National University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 KU Leuven 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of Birmingham 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Queensland University of Technology 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Virginia Tech 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Guangxi University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 University of Helsinki 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=76 Lancaster University 76th in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 California Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Griffith University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 RMIT University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Southeast University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Cambridge 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Columbia University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Monash University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Sydney 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Vienna 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Australian National University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Groningen 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Beijing Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 King Saud University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Oregon State University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 South China Agricultural University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Technical University of Munich 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Huazhong Agricultural University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Beijing University of Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Ghent University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Western Australia 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 East China University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Emory University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Rice University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Cranfield University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Zhengzhou University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of California, Irvine 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Shenzhen University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Hanyang University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Guangzhou University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Hainan University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 Lanzhou University 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=101 University of Notre Dame 101st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Jiangnan University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Johns Hopkins University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 King's College London 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Korea University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Amsterdam 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Edinburgh 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Texas at Austin 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Yonsei University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Sorbonne University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Newcastle 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Kyoto University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Arizona 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Florida 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Jiangsu University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Purdue University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Glasgow 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Zurich 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of California, Santa Barbara 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Nanjing Forestry University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Auckland 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Lund University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Jilin University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Beijing Forestry University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Uppsala University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 Radboud University Nijmegen 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Göttingen 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 China University of Petroleum, East China 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 University of Gothenburg 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 North China Electric Power University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=151 BOKU University 151st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Beihang University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Indiana University Bloomington 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 New York University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Tohoku University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of California, San Diego 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Sao Paulo 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Science and Technology Beijing 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Yangzhou University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Carnegie Mellon University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Duke University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Education University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Bern 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of California, Los Angeles 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Chinese University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Brown University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Politecnico di Milano 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Washington State University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Wuhan University of Technology 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Montpellier 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Connecticut 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Nottingham 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 National Autonomous University of Mexico 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Montreal 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Southampton 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Westlake University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Bristol 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Georgia 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Beijing University of Chemical Technology 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Oslo 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Kunming University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Université Paris Cité 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Southwest University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Houston 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Sapienza University of Rome 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 National Taiwan University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Chang'an University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 RWTH Aachen University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Bonn 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Shanghai Ocean University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Bath 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of East Anglia 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Tufts University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 University of Utah 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Murdoch University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Hong Kong Baptist University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 Fuzhou University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=201 George Mason University 201st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Deakin University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Swinburne University of Technology 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Sheffield 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 James Cook University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Curtin University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Erasmus University Rotterdam 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Northeast Agricultural University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Hawaii at Manoa 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Naples Federico II 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Virginia 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 PSL University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Southern California 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Southwest Jiaotong University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Reading 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Florida State University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Miami 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Turin 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Guelph 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Sichuan Agricultural University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Nanjing Tech University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Université Grenoble Alpes 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Loughborough University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Mississippi State University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Aalborg University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Eindhoven University of Technology 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Iowa State University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Iowa 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Tel Aviv University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Turku 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Missouri 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 University of Freiburg 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 Concordia University 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=301 L'Institut Agro 301st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Northwestern Polytechnical University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Northwestern University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of St Andrews 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 KAIST 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Wollongong 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Lisbon 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Vanderbilt University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Western University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Brunel University of London 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Macquarie University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Geneva 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Macau 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Tiangong University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Leicester 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Hefei University of Technology 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Taiyuan University of Technology 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Northeast Forestry University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Anhui University 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Université de Toulouse 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering
=401 University of Rochester 401st in the world for Environmental Science & Engineering