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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
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 97.6 |
| 2 | Stanford University | 92.3 |
| 3 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 91.8 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | 91.3 |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 90.8 |
| 6 | ETH Zurich | 89.7 |
| =7 | Harvard University | 89.3 |
| =7 | University of Oxford | 89.3 |
| =9 | Delft University of Technology | 89.1 |
| =9 | Imperial College London | 89.1 |
| 11 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 88.9 |
| 12 | Tsinghua University | 88.1 |
| 13 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 85.8 |
| 14 | Politecnico di Milano | 85.6 |
| 15 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 85.1 |
| 16 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 84.9 |
| 17 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 84.4 |
| 18 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 83.9 |
| 19 | Technical University of Munich | 83.3 |
| 20 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 83.2 |
| =21 | Purdue University | 82.9 |
| =21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 82.9 |
| 23 | The University of Tokyo | 82.6 |
| 24 | Seoul National University | 82 |
| 25 | RWTH Aachen University | 81.9 |
| 26 | Peking University | 81.4 |
| 27 | The University of Manchester | 80.8 |
| 28 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 80.6 |
| 29 | University of Texas at Austin | 80.3 |
| =30 | Politecnico di Torino | 79.4 |
| =30 | Texas A&M University | 79.4 |
| 32 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 79.1 |
| 33 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 78.9 |
| 34 | KU Leuven | 78.8 |
| =35 | McGill University | 78.7 |
| =35 | University of Toronto | 78.7 |
| 37 | Technical University of Denmark | 78.6 |
| 38 | Princeton University | 78.3 |
| 39 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 78.2 |
| 40 | Zhejiang University | 77.6 |
| 41 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 77.2 |
| =42 | Pennsylvania State University | 77 |
| =42 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 77 |
| 44 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | 76.8 |
| 45 | The University of Melbourne | 76.7 |
| =46 | Cornell University | 76.5 |
| =46 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 76.5 |
| 48 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 76.4 |
| 49 | The University of Hong Kong | 76.2 |
| 50 | University of British Columbia | 76.1 |
| =51 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 76 |
| =51 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 76 |
| 53 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 75.8 |
| 54 | Yonsei University | 75.6 |
| 55 | Cranfield University | 75.4 |
| 56 | The University of Sydney | 75.1 |
| =57 | Chalmers University of Technology | 74.8 |
| =57 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 74.8 |
| =57 | UCL | 74.8 |
| =60 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 74.7 |
| =60 | Northwestern University | 74.7 |
| 62 | Xi’an Jiaotong University | 74.4 |
| 63 | The University of Sheffield | 74.3 |
| 64 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 74.2 |
| 65 | University of Waterloo | 74.1 |
| =66 | University of Bristol | 74 |
| =66 | University of Nottingham | 74 |
| =68 | Carnegie Mellon University | 73.9 |
| =68 | Universität Stuttgart | 73.9 |
| 70 | Monash University | 73.8 |
| 71 | Université Paris-Saclay | 73.7 |
| 72 | Sapienza University of Rome | 73.4 |
| =73 | KFUPM | 73.3 |
| =73 | Kyoto University | 73.3 |
| =73 | Tohoku University | 73.3 |
| =76 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 73.1 |
| =76 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 73.1 |
| 78 | University of Birmingham | 73 |
| =79 | Beihang University (former BUAA) | 72.9 |
| =79 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | 72.9 |
| =81 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | 72.8 |
| =81 | University of Southampton | 72.8 |
| =83 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | 72.7 |
| =83 | University of Pennsylvania | 72.7 |
| 85 | Korea University | 72.6 |
| 86 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 72.5 |
| =87 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 72.4 |
| =87 | The University of Edinburgh | 72.4 |
| =87 | Universidade de São Paulo | 72.4 |
| =90 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | 72.2 |
| =90 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) | 72.2 |
| =90 | University of Science and Technology of China | 72.2 |
| =93 | Fudan University | 72 |
| =93 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | 72 |
| =93 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 72 |
| =96 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 71.9 |
| =96 | Yale University | 71.9 |
| 98 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 71.8 |
| 99 | Hanyang University | 71.7 |
| =100 | Loughborough University | 71.5 |
