Comprehensive analysis of 225 engineering institutions across Europe, evaluated using rigorous methodology and authoritative data sources.
| Rank 2023 | Institution | Country | FINAL SCORE | Research 60% | Innovation 25% | Teaching 10% | SDG 5% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 100 | 90.39 | 88.95 | 50.00 | 100 |
| 2 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 94.44 | 89.85 | 100 | 0.00 | 71.33 |
| 3 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 91.96 | 100 | 67.59 | 0.00 | 68.40 |
| 4 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 90.91 | 88.19 | 87.87 | 0.00 | 87.53 |
| 5 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 88.15 | 87.85 | 76.48 | 0.00 | 98.53 |
| 6 | Ghent University | Belgium | 83.49 | 82.80 | 77.34 | 0.00 | 76.09 |
| 7= | Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg | Germany | 81.15 | 88.26 | 52.90 | 0.00 | 89.83 |
| 7= | Aalto University | Finland | 80.24 | 83.43 | 70.48 | 0.00 | 49.56 |
| 9= | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden | 78.73 | 77.84 | 78.30 | 0.00 | 50.73 |
| 9= | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 78.50 | 79.93 | 71.11 | 0.00 | 56.71 |
| 9= | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 78.12 | 83.70 | 60.74 | 0.00 | 56.71 |
| 12= | University of Twente | Netherlands | 76.10 | 84.70 | 42.61 | 0.00 | 94.59 |
| 12= | RWTH Aachen University | Germany | 75.49 | 83.88 | 44.14 | 0.00 | 87.19 |
| 14= | Université Grenoble Alpes | France | 74.85 | 79.15 | 45.08 | 25.00 | 72.95 |
| 14= | Technical University of Berlin | Germany | 74.26 | 73.56 | 74.73 | 0.00 | 42.58 |
| 14= | Technische Universität Darmstadt | Germany | 74.19 | 74.76 | 73.51 | 0.00 | 34.20 |
| 17 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 73.82 | 84.43 | 39.03 | 0.00 | 77.99 |
| 18= | Université de Lyon | France | 72.60 | 75.05 | 35.64 | 50.00 | 72.95 |
| 18= | University of the Basque Country | Spain | 71.89 | 79.71 | 49.93 | 0.00 | 50.15 |
| 18= | AGH University of Krakow | Poland | 71.63 | 64.94 | 40.03 | 100 | 45.24 |
| 21= | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 71.35 | 80.22 | 44.97 | 0.00 | 58.24 |
| 21= | University of Aveiro | Portugal | 71.26 | 73.67 | 61.43 | 0.00 | 53.53 |
| 21= | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria | 70.69 | 64.49 | 85.84 | 0.00 | 34.20 |
| 21= | Polytechnic University of Milan | Italy | 70.63 | 76.79 | 41.61 | 0.00 | 97.93 |
| 25= | Polytechnic University of Turin | Italy | 70.12 | 73.92 | 52.04 | 0.00 | 74.54 |
| 25= | Institut national des sciences appliquées Lyon | France | 69.95 | 71.25 | 37.48 | 50.00 | 63.98 |
| 25= | University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague | Czechia | 69.42 | 78.25 | 48.77 | 0.00 | 32.44 |
| 25= | Brno University of Technology | Czechia | 69.29 | 69.78 | 66.49 | 0.00 | 41.89 |
| 29= | University of Minho | Portugal | 68.99 | 80.57 | 29.55 | 0.00 | 85.84 |
| 29= | École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier | France | 68.67 | 82.18 | 36.10 | 0.00 | 35.04 |
| 31= | Graz University of Technology | Austria | 67.64 | 68.47 | 62.77 | 0.00 | 46.52 |
| 31= | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain | 66.86 | 72.28 | 48.34 | 0.00 | 57.74 |
| 31= | Leibniz University Hannover | Germany | 66.77 | 66.32 | 66.96 | 0.00 | 37.46 |
| 34= | Institut polytechnique de Grenoble | France | 66.60 | 80.08 | 35.84 | 0.00 | 26.49 |
| 34= | Université catholique de Louvain | Belgium | 66.31 | 63.09 | 48.42 | 50.00 | 45.88 |
| 34= | University of Stuttgart | Germany | 66.11 | 66.00 | 65.40 | 0.00 | 37.46 |
| 34= | University of Bayreuth | Germany | 65.60 | 83.48 | 24.68 | 0.00 | 24.18 |
| 38= | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain | 65.37 | 69.76 | 48.93 | 0.00 | 58.74 |
| 38= | Bordeaux INP | France | 65.22 | 80.14 | 24.99 | 6.25 | 39.74 |
| 38= | Vienna University of Technology | Austria | 64.54 | 66.92 | 58.23 | 0.00 | 35.04 |
| 41= | Technical University of Madrid | Spain | 63.43 | 62.12 | 38.87 | 50.00 | 53.53 |
| 41= | University College Dublin | Ireland | 63.31 | 63.57 | 33.67 | 50.00 | 59.23 |
| 41= | Université de Lorraine | France | 62.60 | 73.81 | 29.38 | 0.00 | 59.23 |
| 41= | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia | 62.56 | 62.04 | 55.75 | 0.00 | 66.67 |
| 45= | CentraleSupélec | France | 62.36 | 70.39 | 41.68 | 0.00 | 37.46 |
| 45= | Aalborg University | Denmark | 61.99 | 61.23 | 54.93 | 0.00 | 70.09 |
| 47= | Gdańsk University of Technology | Poland | 60.62 | 63.23 | 54.99 | 0.00 | 27.57 |
| 47= | Luleå University of Technology | Sweden | 60.54 | 67.62 | 44.95 | 0.00 | 24.18 |
| 49= | Hamburg University of Technology | Germany | 59.10 | 62.08 | 49.46 | 0.00 | 40.47 |
| 49= | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Spain | 58.98 | 64.33 | 44.70 | 0.00 | 35.87 |
| 49= | University of Bremen | Germany | 58.59 | 64.80 | 45.16 | 0.00 | 22.94 |
| 49= | Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg | Germany | 58.55 | 63.03 | 40.46 | 0.00 | 61.65 |
| 49= | University of Patras | Greece | 58.44 | 72.60 | 19.70 | 0.00 | 50.15 |
| 49= | TU Dortmund University | Germany | 58.32 | 60.80 | 53.27 | 0.00 | 25.36 |
| 49= | Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes | France | 58.26 | 73.29 | 22.31 | 0.00 | 28.61 |
| 56= | École polytechnique | France | 57.82 | 52.72 | 69.70 | 0.00 | 30.59 |
| 56= | Arts et Métiers ParisTech | France | 57.67 | 68.05 | 33.59 | 0.00 | 25.36 |
| 56= | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies | Italy | 57.54 | 68.53 | 23.40 | 0.00 | 63.06 |
| 56= | University of Salento | Italy | 56.95 | 67.77 | 28.30 | 0.00 | 40.47 |
| 60= | Ilmenau University of Technology | Germany | 56.36 | 57.53 | 55.07 | 0.00 | 21.63 |
| 60= | Université de Bretagne Sud | France | 56.15 | 67.45 | 31.56 | 0.00 | 17.10 |
| 60= | University of Salerno | Italy | 55.49 | 67.78 | 25.13 | 0.00 | 31.53 |
| 63 | Warsaw University of Technology | Poland | 54.77 | 64.59 | 25.14 | 0.00 | 54.07 |
| 64= | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Hungary | 53.46 | 61.32 | 34.42 | 0.00 | 27.57 |
| 64= | Silesian University of Technology | Poland | 53.19 | 69.38 | 10.57 | 0.00 | 43.26 |
| 64= | University of Oulu | Finland | 52.97 | 59.19 | 34.11 | 0.00 | 43.93 |
| 67= | University of Calabria | Italy | 52.36 | 67.45 | 15.14 | 0.00 | 30.59 |
| 67= | Wrocław University of Science and Technology | Poland | 51.70 | 59.19 | 32.04 | 0.00 | 33.33 |
| 67= | École des mines de Saint-Étienne | France | 51.45 | 54.36 | 45.40 | 0.00 | 21.63 |
| 70= | Czech Technical University in Prague | Czechia | 51.27 | 61.83 | 19.87 | 0.00 | 52.43 |
| 70= | Université Gustave Eiffel | France | 51.15 | 61.03 | 23.93 | 6.25 | 28.61 |
| 70= | Chemnitz University of Technology | Germany | 50.61 | 56.13 | 38.53 | 0.00 | 20.23 |
| 73= | University of Zagreb | Croatia | 49.90 | 54.73 | 35.65 | 0.00 | 36.67 |
| 73= | École centrale de Lyon | France | 49.33 | 54.42 | 32.71 | 6.25 | 31.53 |
| 73= | Technical University of Braunschweig | Germany | 49.12 | 58.05 | 25.53 | 0.00 | 34.20 |
| 73= | National Technical University of Athens | Greece | 48.93 | 55.13 | 28.89 | 0.00 | 47.14 |
| 77 | Poznań University of Technology | Poland | 48.64 | 56.58 | 29.13 | 0.00 | 26.49 |
| 78= | Université de technologie de Compiègne | France | 46.66 | 55.53 | 22.56 | 0.00 | 35.87 |
| 78= | University Politehnica of Bucharest | Romania | 46.22 | 53.02 | 22.88 | 0.00 | 54.07 |
| 80= | University of Maribor | Slovenia | 45.10 | 53.78 | 22.90 | 0.00 | 28.61 |
| 80= | Université de Limoges | France | 44.68 | 41.73 | 49.69 | 0.00 | 31.53 |
| 80= | VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava | Czechia | 44.26 | 56.90 | 14.37 | 0.00 | 20.23 |
| 83= | Kaunas University of Technology | Lithuania | 43.19 | 54.62 | 14.17 | 0.00 | 28.61 |
| 83= | Lodz University of Technology | Poland | 42.57 | 51.55 | 19.14 | 0.00 | 29.62 |
| 85 | Furtwangen University | Germany | 40.72 | 45.63 | 26.21 | 0.00 | 32.44 |
| 86= | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | Romania | 37.61 | 46.40 | 10.81 | 0.00 | 43.93 |
| 86= | Polytechnic Institute of Porto | Portugal | 37.30 | 50.51 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 43.26 |
| 88 | Gh. Asachi Technical University | Romania | 35.97 | 43.73 | 12.75 | 0.00 | 38.24 |
| 89 | Politehnica University of Timisoara | Romania | 33.32 | 37.81 | 20.31 | 0.00 | 26.49 |
| 90 | Roma Tre University | Italy | 32.19 | 44.53 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 27.57 |
| 91 | Lublin University of Technology | Poland | 27.23 | 37.96 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.23 |
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