Ranked 2nd in the world for Automation & Control
Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Automation & Control, 2025
Full ranking profile 66 placements
Every placement the Index records for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Headline Automation & Control | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =2 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Library & Information Management | Quacquarelli Symonds | =6 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Water Resources | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =8 |
| NTU 2025 Mechanical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =23 |
| ARWU GRAS 2024 Ecology | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =28 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =31 |
| NTU 2025 Civil Engineering | National Taiwan University | =31 |
| NTU 2025 Electrical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =33 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =36 |
| USN-Nat 2026 | U.S. News & World Report | =36 |
| Forbes 2025-2026 | Forbes | =38 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =41 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =43 |
| NTU 2025 Plant & Animal Science | National Taiwan University | =44 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =45 |
| NTU 2025 Environmental Science & Engineering | National Taiwan University | =45 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =46 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =47 |
| NTU 2025 Agricultural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =48 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =48 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =50 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =51 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =51 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =51 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =52 |
| SCImago 2026 Veterinary | SCImago Research Group | =55 |
| WSJ 2026 | Wall Street Journal | =55 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =64 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =67 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =69 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =70 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =72 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =78 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Human Movement & Sports Sciences | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =79 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =79 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =80 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =80 |
| SCImago 2026 Business, Management and Accounting | SCImago Research Group | =81 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =90 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =90 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =91 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =97 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =107 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =111 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =111 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =123 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =124 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =125 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =131 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =133 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =135 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =136 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =164 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =174 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =185 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =211 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =235 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =260 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =261 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =264 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =286 |
| SCImago 2025 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | SCImago Research Group | =362 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =384 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =436 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =451 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =457 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.