EngiRank 2025 - Ranking of the best technical universities in Europe announced

EngiRank – the European Ranking of Engineering Programs, published since 2023 met with very positive response of European universities, and engineering organizations. EngiRank is a new type of ranking that combines regional and subject-based approaches, it serves as a tool allowing to compare the quality of engineering and technology programs offered by 300 universities across 36 EHEA countries.

Waldemar Siwiński, the creator of EngiRank and an international expert on academic rankings, emphasizes that the choice of the field of engineering was deliberate: "Engineers are crucial for the future of Europe; they are needed to maintain the global competitiveness of the European industry and ensure sustainable development on our continent." Europe, in the IT sector alone suffers a shortage of nearly two million engineers. EngiRank helps industry find best graduates of engineering programs and assists prospective students in choosing the best university or the best program of study or research.

EngiRank, produced in partnership with the international publisher Elsevier, opens a new era in regional "by subject" rankings, utilizing Europe-specific indicators, such as the participation of universities in Erasmus+ and Horizon programs; it Evaluates universities in countries with similar legal and cultural environment, institutions. Also, assessment of institutions engaged in joint research programs (European Research Council) and academic collaboration initiatives (consortia of European universities), ensure a dependable presentation of university’s strengths and weaknesses.

The methodology developed for EngiRank, in addition to the traditional indicators like publications, citations and internationalization, also considers such factors as: collaboration with industry, joint research with business, patents, contributions to SDGs and engineering accreditations. The data for the ranking comes from: Elsevier’s Scopus database, the European Patent Office’s PATSTAT, Horizon Europe, and organizations accrediting engineering studies (ABET, ENAEE).

The top three European universities in EngiRank 2025 are the same as in 2024. The winner is the DTU (Technical University of Denmark), followed by the Delft University of Technology (2nd place) and KU Leuven (3rd place). Other universities in the top ten are: KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Technical University of Munich (Germany), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway).

Ranking by Subject

Equally important, if not more so, than the overall institutional ranking, are the seven "subject" rankings covering the major fields of engineering:

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Medical Engineering

EngiRank 2025 was produced by "Perspektywy" in partnership with Elsevier. The ranking's media partner is the Polish Press Agency, publisher of "PAP Science in Poland" website.

The EngiRank 2025 results were officially announced on December 1st in Brussels, at the conclusion of the "Engineering for Security: Universities and Industry in Service of Defense" seminar, attended by rectors of top European universities and representatives of Europe's leading defense companies: Patria (Finland), Leonardo (Italy), PGZ (Poland), Rheinmetall (Germany), Safran Group (France), Rolls-Royce (Great Britain) and others. The seminar has been organized by "Perspektywy" in collaboration with Brussels’ office of NCBR, Business & Science Poland and the PGZ (Polish Armaments Group) office in Brussels.