T op 50 engineering & technology universities Rank Institution Location Overall score 1 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 94.4 2 Princeton UniversityUnited States 91.9 3 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 91.4 4 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 90.2 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 89.4 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 89.4 7 University of California, Los Angeles United States 88.4 8 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland 86.1 9 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 85.0 10 Imperial College London United Kingdom 84.6 11 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 84.1 12 National University of SingaporeSingapore 83.4 13 University of Texas at Austin United States 82.7 14 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 81.7 15 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 81.3 16 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 80.7 17 University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States 79.5 18 Cornell UniversityUnited States 79.0 19 University of MichiganUnited States 77.7 20 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States 75.8 21 Columbia UniversityUnited States 75.5 22 University of TorontoCanada 75.0 23 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 74.4