Best Universities in Europe for Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering 2025 - QS World University Rankings

Mechanical engineering is a classic field of technical activity and research in the field of engineering. Main areas of mechanical engineering:

• Aviation and rocket-space technology
• Metallurgy
• Sectoral mechanical engineering
• applied mechanics
• Shipbuilding.

Aviation engineering, due to the scale of the aircraft industry, the use of electronic technology, has emerged as a separate area of engineering. Research directions:

• Aircraft construction
• Air navigation
• Ballistics and aerodynamics
• Integrated aircraft systems
• Aircraft testing
• Aircraft and helicopter construction
• Aircraft control systems.

At the junction of mechanical and electronic engineering, a new engineering industry has emerged - mechatronics. Scientists and technologists create equipment, systems, where mechanical and electronic components work together as parts of one organism, further enhanced by software.

Industrial engineering (industrial engineering) - engineering science, which arose at the junction of several sciences: mathematics, mechanics, social sciences, physics, economics.

The subject of industrial engineering research is integrated systems, including:

• Knowledge
• Information
• Materials (edit)
• Equipment
• Manufacturing processes
• Energy.

Specialists in this field are involved in the control and development of systems, taking care of the continuous growth of productivity and product quality.

Areas of specialization:

• Engineering management
• Operations research
• Mechanical engineering
• Systems engineering
• Construction engineering
• Financial engineering
• Ergonomics.

The rating "The Best Universities for the Study of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Industrial Engineering in Europe" was created as a result of a detailed analysis of the quality of education at European universities for future applicants.