World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Mechanical Engineering

2026 edition, Mechanical Engineering. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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1 Tsinghua University 1st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
2 University of Cambridge 2nd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
3 Harbin Institute of Technology 3rd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
4 Xi'an Jiaotong University 4th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
5 Nanyang Technological University 5th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
6 Georgia Institute of Technology 6th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
8 Beihang University 8th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
9 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 9th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
10 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 10th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
11 California Institute of Technology 11th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
12 Northwestern Polytechnical University 12th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
13 National University of Singapore 13th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
14 Imperial College London 14th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
15 Zhejiang University 15th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
16 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 16th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
17 Dalian University of Technology 17th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
18 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 18th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
19 Tianjin University 19th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
20 Beijing Institute of Technology 20th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
21 Delft University of Technology 21st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
22 Texas A&M University 22nd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
23 New York University 23rd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
24 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 24th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
25 University of Science and Technology of China 25th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
26 University of Nottingham 26th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
27 University of British Columbia 27th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
28 University of California, San Diego 28th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
29 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 29th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
30 Tongji University 30th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
31 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 31st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
32 ETH Zurich 32nd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=33 Stanford University 33rd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=33 University of Texas at Austin 33rd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
35 University of Twente 35th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
36 Southwest Jiaotong University 36th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
37 City University of Hong Kong 37th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
38 University of Melbourne 38th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
39 Sapienza University of Rome 39th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
40 University of Manchester 40th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
41 Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon 41st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
42 Northwestern University 42nd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
43 Monash University 43rd in the world for Mechanical Engineering
44 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 44th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
45 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 45th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
46 Shanghai University 46th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
47 Southern University of Science and Technology 47th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
48 Hunan University 48th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
49 University of Minnesota 49th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
50 Peking University 50th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Central South University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 RMIT University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Tohoku University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University College London 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Oxford 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Columbia University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of California, Berkeley 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of New South Wales 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Queensland 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Toronto 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of California, Los Angeles 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 KAIST 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Technical University of Denmark 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Chongqing University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Politecnico di Milano 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Purdue University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Glasgow 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 University of Southampton 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=51 Shandong University 51st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Sichuan University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Southeast University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Alberta 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Edinburgh 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Sao Paulo 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Harbin Engineering University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Sorbonne University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Surrey 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Tokyo 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 South China University of Technology 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Sun Yat-sen University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Seoul National University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Technical University of Munich 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Beijing University of Technology 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Bristol 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 University of Leeds 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=76 RWTH Aachen University 76th in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Johns Hopkins University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Princeton University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Colorado Boulder 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Science and Technology Beijing 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Technology Sydney 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Beijing Jiaotong University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Kyoto University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Jiangsu University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 KU Leuven 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 PSL University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Wisconsin-Madison 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Auckland 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Lund University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Western University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Jilin University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Politecnico di Torino 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Adelaide University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Houston 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Hanyang University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Aalborg University 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Eindhoven University of Technology 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Waterloo 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of Liverpool 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 Guangdong University of Technology 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=101 University of North Texas 101st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Hohai University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 McGill University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Swinburne University of Technology 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Yonsei University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Carnegie Mellon University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Cornell University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Exeter 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Fudan University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Chinese University of Hong Kong 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Florida 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Osaka University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Naples Federico II 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Wuhan University of Technology 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Warwick 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Birmingham 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Strathclyde 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Brunel University of London 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Virginia Tech 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Shenzhen University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Loughborough University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 China University of Petroleum, East China 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Ningbo University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Bath 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Cardiff University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 Université de Toulouse 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 North China Electric Power University 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=151 University of Utah 151st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Jiangnan University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Korea University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Washington 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Wuhan University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 China University of Geosciences 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 China University of Mining and Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Xidian University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Curtin University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Pittsburgh 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 National University of Defense Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Wollongong 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Washington State University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 King Abdulaziz University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Lisbon 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Xiamen University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Connecticut 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Maryland, College Park 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Southern California 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Montreal 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Western Australia 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Arizona State University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 East China University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Case Western Reserve University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Queen Mary University of London 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Cranfield University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Zhengzhou University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Nanjing Tech University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Sungkyunkwan University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of California, Irvine 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Guangxi University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Shanghai Maritime University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 The University of Texas at Dallas 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Université Grenoble Alpes 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Chang'an University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Guangzhou University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Canterbury 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 York University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Lanzhou University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Taiyuan University of Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 University of Illinois Chicago 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Chalmers University of Technology 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 McMaster University 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=201 Universidade do Porto 201st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Deakin University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 King's College London 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Ocean University of China 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Aarhus University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Dalian Maritime University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 King Saud University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University of Arizona 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Michigan State University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University of California, Davis 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University of Central Florida 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Ghent University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Institute of Science Tokyo 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Trinity College Dublin 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Queensland University of Technology 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Beijing University of Chemical Technology 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Jiangsu University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University of Macau 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Yanshan University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 National Taiwan University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University College Dublin 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Hainan University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Hefei University of Technology 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Aalto University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Lancaster University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Concordia University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Fuzhou University 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 University of Notre Dame 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 Zhejiang University of Technology 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering
=301 North University of China 301st in the world for Mechanical Engineering