QS World Rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities are the three popular sources that list the best universities and colleges globally that provide quality education. The institutions are ranked based on specific criteria and methodology that differs as per the rules set by these institutions. This has been mentioned in brief as follows.

• QS World Rankings focuses on six key performance indicators for engineering universities ranking including academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, research citations per faculty member, the proportion of international faculty, and proportion of international students.

Here are the popular universities in the country that offer quality education in the field of engineering ranked taking into account all the aforementioned factors.

• Stanford University, University of California in Berkeley (UCB), and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are all placed within the top ten on the West Coast.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranks first on the world ranking list for chemical engineering.
• For civil and structural engineering, MIT again takes the first position on the global list by QS methodologies engineering universities ranking. UCB and Stanford manage to retain seventh and eight positions accordingly.
• It should come as no surprise that MIT ranks first for students who want to pursue a degree in electrical and electronics engineering, with Stanford and UCB the following suit in the top three. Harvard places sixth in the global ranking for the subject. Univesity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) makes it to the top ten engineering universities ranking.
• Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan are ranked among the top ten universities for mechanical, aeronautical, and manufacturing engineering among MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and UCB.
• Mineral and mining engineering is a unique field and Colorado School of Mines and Pennsylvania State University are ranked among the top ten institutions for the specific subject.

The global lists that feature the top engineering colleges and universities also include international universities if you are looking for a diverse experience in terms of location and demographics.