Research field intelligence

Engineering Research Strength

Name: Engineering University Research Ranking & Trends – ITS Research Solution
Creator: ITS Research Solution

Explore universities with the strongest current Engineering topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.

Research landscape

Engineering currently has 5,477 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 4,540,072 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 54.9, while average five-year publication growth is 60.7%.

The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.

Leading universities in Engineering

Rank	University	Country	Field score	Field signal	Overall works	Growth
#1	China University of Mining and Technology	China	88.5	46,898	40,836	42.7%
#2	Central South University	China	88.1	39,728	118,281	19.3%
#3	North China Electric Power University	China	87.1	39,721	32,856	46.4%
#4	China University of Petroleum, Beijing	China	87.0	41,711	20,522	45.0%
#5	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China	86.7	34,274	64,286	26.4%
#6	Tongji University	China	86.7	30,769	84,348	32.3%
#7	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	86.4	26,711	84,428	41.9%
#8	University of Science and Technology Beijing	China	86.0	28,911	41,832	43.3%
#9	Northeastern University	China	85.6	27,635	39,888	46.0%
#10	Tsinghua University	China	85.6	21,158	136,887	30.4%
#11	Southeast University	China	85.5	23,687	70,340	41.3%
#12	Beijing Institute of Technology	China	85.4	24,069	61,298	43.7%
#13	Xidian University	China	85.3	27,631	34,488	46.7%
#14	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China	85.2	24,117	56,345	40.8%
#15	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	China	84.9	28,871	28,717	43.7%
#16	Southwest Jiaotong University	China	84.7	21,756	36,468	63.4%
#17	Southwest Petroleum University	China	84.2	25,481	16,824	65.0%
#18	Zhejiang University	China	83.8	17,565	159,128	21.1%
#19	China University of Petroleum, East China	China	83.5	21,358	23,214	47.1%
#20	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China	83.3	20,405	41,032	40.1%
#21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	83.2	17,004	162,490	13.6%
#22	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	83.2	18,487	110,703	9.9%
#23	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	China	83.2	17,786	38,938	50.3%
#24	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	82.9	16,379	87,384	30.4%
#25	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	82.8	14,714	42,788	36.8%
#26	Beihang University	China	82.7	16,323	57,970	40.1%
#27	South China University of Technology	China	82.7	16,185	61,498	33.8%
#28	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	82.6	14,819	59,190	21.4%
#29	Beijing Jiaotong University	China	82.6	20,803	28,856	34.5%
#30	Harbin Engineering University	China	82.4	15,535	25,248	75.7%
#31	Wuhan University of Technology	China	82.4	15,113	40,864	50.0%
#32	Dalian University of Technology	China	82.0	13,904	52,538	45.6%
#33	Chongqing University	China	82.0	14,130	64,729	39.3%
#34	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	81.6	9,742	56,867	62.9%
#35	Kunming University of Science and Technology	China	81.5	10,799	28,987	98.2%
#36	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	80.8	18,218	32,114	2.2%
#37	National University of Defense Technology	China	80.8	16,018	31,240	39.1%
#38	Tianjin University	China	80.7	12,350	69,376	23.5%
#39	Aalborg University	Denmark	80.4	17,120	35,054	-3.1%
#40	Sichuan University	China	80.4	11,553	124,573	14.3%
#41	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	80.3	11,415	195,306	-5.6%
#42	Chang'an University	China	80.2	12,624	19,754	52.3%
#43	Hohai University	China	80.1	12,107	32,209	45.0%
#44	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	80.0	12,760	27,427	19.1%
#45	King Khalid University	Saudi Arabia	79.9	10,131	35,966	46.7%
#46	University of Science and Technology of China	China	79.6	9,016	89,129	26.7%
#47	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	79.6	11,904	41,897	3.8%
#48	Soochow University	China	79.6	11,092	56,357	17.8%
#49	Seoul National University	South Korea	79.5	9,646	69,985	28.9%
#50	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	79.5	12,242	45,821	0.3%
#51	Henan Polytechnic University	China	79.5	12,729	14,251	53.1%
#52	Jilin University	China	79.3	10,619	70,180	15.7%
#53	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	79.3	10,943	44,605	7.8%
#54	Shandong University of Science and Technology	China	79.1	11,488	26,761	39.4%
#55	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia	79.1	8,784	18,322	57.6%
#56	National University of Singapore	Singapore	79.0	7,953	86,173	16.8%
#57	Shenzhen University	China	79.0	8,397	53,989	41.0%
#58	Hanyang University	South Korea	78.9	11,218	27,569	17.0%
#59	Yanshan University	China	78.9	10,358	16,250	56.0%
#60	Jiangsu University	China	78.8	8,908	45,406	36.7%
#61	Stanford University	United States	78.8	7,991	130,687	0.4%
#62	Virginia Tech	United States	78.8	10,894	41,176	19.9%
#63	Texas A&M University	United States	78.8	9,661	59,018	18.4%
#64	University of Calgary	Canada	78.7	10,515	53,402	0.1%
#65	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications	China	78.5	9,122	20,565	56.7%
#66	Guangdong University of Technology	China	78.5	8,508	29,982	49.9%
#67	Dalian Maritime University	China	78.3	9,693	15,395	58.7%
#68	Nankai University	China	78.2	8,184	49,161	30.9%
#69	Université Paris Cité	France	78.1	7,506	92,495	8.1%
#70	Anhui University of Science and Technology	China	78.1	9,108	13,570	79.0%
#71	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	78.1	9,945	42,275	10.7%
#72	Hunan University	China	78.0	7,219	42,183	42.6%
#73	Shanghai University	China	78.0	8,480	39,955	34.1%
#74	Xi'an University of Science and Technology	China	78.0	9,830	12,085	58.5%
#75	Zhengzhou University	China	78.0	9,246	63,154	6.8%
#76	University of Alberta	Canada	77.9	8,721	65,124	0.7%
#77	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	77.9	10,793	42,509	-1.4%
#78	Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian	United States	77.8	11,372	8,519	0.0%
#79	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	77.8	7,524	45,144	16.8%
#80	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China	77.7	8,696	23,001	25.9%
#81	Changsha University of Science and Technology	China	77.6	7,015	13,460	87.1%
#82	Shandong University	China	77.5	7,492	85,550	18.4%
#83	Lanzhou University of Technology	China	77.5	6,746	15,664	94.1%
#84	Northeast Petroleum University	China	77.4	10,842	6,209	53.4%
#85	Shenyang University of Technology	China	77.4	6,244	9,811	126.4%
#86	Wuhan University	China	77.4	7,015	90,814	15.0%
#87	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	77.4	7,541	63,470	14.3%
#88	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	77.3	8,832	27,356	30.5%
#89	Hefei University of Technology	China	77.3	7,199	28,713	53.9%
#90	Nanjing Tech University	China	77.2	6,882	26,209	47.0%
#91	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	77.2	7,048	43,587	26.0%
#92	Tohoku University	Japan	77.1	9,236	49,115	1.1%
#93	Liaoning Technical University	China	77.0	8,996	7,630	91.8%
#94	Eindhoven University of Technology	The Netherlands	76.9	8,592	24,983	13.5%
#95	KU Leuven	Belgium	76.9	6,426	84,133	4.6%
#96	Beijing University of Technology	China	76.7	6,810	34,916	41.8%
#97	University of Shanghai for Science and Technology	China	76.7	5,880	23,550	74.2%
#98	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway	76.7	6,484	53,223	30.4%
#99	Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology	China	76.6	7,707	14,458	49.4%
#100	Yangtze University	China	76.6	9,351	14,535	41.3%

How to interpret this field page

Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.

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ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.

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