We offer an overview of the TOP 100 best universities in the world in mechanical engineering according to QS World University Rankings. Mechanical engineering is a very broad discipline that opens the door to many highly paid and sought-after positions. As a future engineer, you can work with any type of mechanical device or system – from refrigerators to biomedical devices, from electric cars to robots and everything in between.
The world's leading universities offer programs that focus on the application of mathematical, scientific principles of classical mechanics to analyze and evaluate the behavior of structures, forces and materials in engineering problems. Courses include training in statics, kinetics, dynamics, kinematics, mechanics.
Mechanical engineering diploma offers excellent job prospects, high salaries, is one of the most popular disciplines among international students.
The world's leading universities, where Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel, Felix Wankel and James Watt studied, are some of the best places where you can get a bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical engineering.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Engineering - Mechanical
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 96,8 |
| 2 | Stanford University | 93,2 |
| 3 | Delft University of Technology | 92,6 |
| 4 | Cambridge University | 91,8 |
| 5 | Harvard University | 90,1 |
| 6 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 89,9 |
| =7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 89,1 |
| =7 | Berkeley University of California | 89,1 |
| =9 | Politecnico di Milano | 88,8 |
| =9 | University of Oxford | 88,8 |
| 11 | Imperial College London | 88,7 |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University | 88,1 |
| 13 | Tsinghua University | 88,0 |
| 14 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 87,5 |
| 15 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | 87,1 |
| 16 | Purdue University | 86,8 |
| 17 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 86,0 |
| 18 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 85,5 |
| 19 | RWTH Aachen University | 84,1 |
| 20 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 83,7 |
| =21 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 82,6 |
| =21 | Technical University of Munich | 82,6 |
| =21 | The University of Tokyo | 82,6 |
| 24 | The University of Manchester | 82,0 |
| 25 | Peking University | 81,9 |
| 26 | Pennsylvania State University | 81,4 |
| 27 | University of California Los Angeles | 81,1 |
| =28 | Cranfield University | 80,2 |
| =28 | Politecnico di Torino | 80,2 |
| =30 | KU Leuven | 80,0 |
| =30 | Texas A&M University | 80,0 |
| 32 | University of Toronto | 79,6 |
| 33 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 79,5 |
| =34 | Technical University of Denmark | 79,3 |
| =34 | University of Texas at Austin | 79,3 |
| 36 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 79,1 |
| 37 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | 79,0 |
| 38 | McGill University | 78,5 |
| 39 | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science | 78,3 |
| 40 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU) | 78,0 |
| 41 | Princeton University | 77,7 |
| 42 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 77,5 |
| 43 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | 77,2 |
| 44 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 77,0 |
| =45 | University of Bristol | 76,5 |
| =45 | Zhejiang University | 76,5 |
| 47 | Northwestern University | 76,3 |
| =48 | Seoul National University | 76,2 |
| =48 | Universität Stuttgart | 76,2 |
| =50 | Indian Institute of Technology — Dehli | 76,0 |
| =50 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 76,0 |
| =50 | Université Paris-Saclay | 76,0 |
| 53 | University of Nottingham | 75,8 |
| =54 | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | 75,7 |
| =54 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | 75,7 |
| 56 | Chalmers University of Technology | 75,6 |
| 57 | Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay | 75,5 |
| 58 | University of Waterloo | 75,2 |
| =59 | Cornell University | 75,1 |
| =59 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | 75,1 |
| =59 | The University of Hong Kong | 75,1 |
| =59 | The University of Melbourne | 75,1 |
| =63 | Monash University | 74,8 |
| =63 | Sapienza University of Rome | 74,8 |
| =65 | Carnegie Mellon University | 74,7 |
| =65 | University of British Columbia | 74,7 |
| 67 | The University of Sydney | 74,5 |
| =68 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 74,4 |
| =68 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 74,4 |
| =68 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 74,4 |
| 71 | University of Sheffield | 74,3 |
| 72 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | 74,2 |
| =73 | Loughborough University | 74,1 |
| =73 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 74,1 |
| =75 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | 74,0 |
| =75 | Xi’an Jiaotong University | 74,0 |
| 77 | University of Southampton | 73,9 |
| 78 | Kyoto University | 73,7 |
| =79 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 73,5 |
| =79 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 73,5 |
| 81 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 73,4 |
| =82 | Ohio State University | 73,3 |
| =82 | University of Twente | 73,3 |
| 84 | Technische Universität Dresden | 73,2 |
| =85 | Tohoku University | 72,9 |
| =85 | University of Birmingham | 72,9 |
| =85 | University of Pennsylvania | 72,9 |
| =85 | University of Science and Technology of China | 72,9 |
| =89 | Fudan University | 72,8 |
| =89 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 72,8 |
| 91 | Beihang University (former BUAA) | 72,7 |
| 92 | Technical University of Darmstadt | 72,6 |
| =93 | Indian Institute of Science | 72,5 |
| =93 | Yale University | 72,5 |
| 95 | Université PSL | 72,4 |
| 96 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 72,3 |
| =97 | Swansea University | 72,2 |
| =97 | The University of Queensland | 72,2 |
| =97 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 72,2 |
| 100 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | 72,0 |
