The Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Engineering and Technology table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for engineering and technology employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

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Top 50 engineering & technology universities

Rank	Institution	Location	Overall score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.7
3	Princeton University	United States	92.4
4	University of California, Berkeley	United States	91.7
5	Stanford University	United States	91.4
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.6
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.4
8	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.3
9	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	87.1
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	85.7
11	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	85.4
12	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	83.2
13	University of Texas at Austin	United States	81.0
14	University of Michigan	United States	80.8
15	Cornell University	United States	79.8
16	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	78.1
16	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	78.1
18	University of Toronto	Canada	78.0
19	National University of Singapore	Singapore	77.5
20	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	77.1
21	University of Tokyo	Japan	69.8
22	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	69.1
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	69.1
24	University of California, San Diego	United States	67.8
25	University of Melbourne	Australia	67.4
26	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	67.1
27	University College London	United Kingdom	66.6
28	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	66.1
29	École Polytechnique	France	65.9
29	University of Minnesota	United States	65.9
31	Tsinghua University	China	65.6
32	University of California, Davis	United States	65.2
33	University of British Columbia	Canada	64.5
34	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	63.8
35	University of Sydney	Australia	63.4
36	Pennsylvania State University	United States	62.4
37	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	62.0
38	KU Leuven	Belgium	61.5
39	Purdue University	United States	60.7
40	Rice University	United States	60.2
40	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	60.2
42	Ohio State University	United States	59.5
43	Technische Universität München	Germany	58.7
44	Peking University	China	58.5
45	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.3
45	Brown University	United States	58.3
47	McGill University	Canada	57.9
48	University of Waterloo	Canada	56.6
48	Kyoto University	Japan	56.6
50	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	55.3

Engineering and Technology Rankings: Clever coasts with the most

The engineering and technology table is, like it was last year, dominated by California. Three of the top five institutions in the rankings hail from the Golden State, home of the global high-tech hub Silicon Valley.

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But the East Coast business powerhouse the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which boasts an $8 billion (£4.9 billion) endowment, remains a major player. It shares first place with last year's outright top dog, the California Institute of Technology.

The University of California, Berkeley occupies fourth place while Stanford University, whose alumni include William Hewlett, David Packard and other electronics tycoons, takes fifth. Four other members of the University of California - Los Angeles (eighth), Santa Barbara (joint 16th), San Diego (24th) and Davis (32nd) - are also highly placed. The results come despite the funding crisis facing the State of California: only time will tell whether the institution can maintain its competitiveness.

In total, 22 US institutions feature in the top 50.

The UK also scores highly in the table, with three of the top 10 and five representatives overall.

But the field of engineering and technology, covering everything from aerospace engineering to sustainable energy research, software design and robotics, is one of the most diverse of the subject tables in terms of national representation.

It is also the subject in which Asia makes its strongest showing in any discipline.

It has 10 institutions in the top 50 (compared with only six from mainland Europe), headed by the National University of Singapore (19th).

Engineering is the largest of the university's 14 faculties and has grown from just 300 students in the late 1970s to about 10,000 students today.

The University of Tokyo, in 21st place, has won several large grants under the Japanese government's 21st Century Centre of Excellence Programme, set up in 2002 to reward world-class research and help maintain global competitiveness.