Best Universities for Industrial Engineering in the World

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EduRank

Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in Industrial Engineering. A graph of 1.8B citations received by 83.2M academic papers made by 1,018 universities in the World was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
20%
Receiving Aid
70%
Average Aid
$16,326
Enrollment
50,278

2. Purdue University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
69%
Average SAT
1310
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
73%

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Net Price
$30,958
Receiving Aid
100%
Average Aid
$32,562

4. Georgia Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
16%
Average SAT
1405
Average ACT
32
Receiving Aid
72%

5. Pennsylvania State University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
55%
Receiving Aid
73%
Average Aid
$8,719
Enrollment
40,363

6. Carnegie Mellon University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
14%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$37,450

7. Texas A&M University - College Station

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
64%
Average SAT
1260
Average ACT
28
Receiving Aid
78%

8. Beihang University

For Industrial Engineering

#1 in Asia
#1 in China
Founded
1952

9. Hong Kong Polytechnic University

For Industrial Engineering

#2 in Asia
#2 in China
Acceptance Rate
10%
Founded
1937

10. Polytechnic University of Milan

For Industrial Engineering

#1 in Europe
#1 in Italy
Acceptance Rate
28%
Enrollment
48,645
Male:Female
65:35
Founded
1863

11. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
56%
Average SAT
1310
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
72%

12. National University of Singapore

For Industrial Engineering

#3 in Asia
#1 in Singapore
Enrollment
30,098
Founded
1905

13. RWTH Aachen University

For Industrial Engineering

#2 in Europe
#1 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
10%
Enrollment
44,517
Founded
1870

14. Delft University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#3 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
82%
Enrollment
24,703
Founded
1842

15. Loughborough University

For Industrial Engineering

#4 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
68%
Enrollment
19,449
Founded
1966

16. University of Patras

For Industrial Engineering

#5 in Europe
#1 in Greece
Enrollment
21,000
Founded
1964

17. Tsinghua University

For Industrial Engineering

#4 in Asia
#3 in China
Enrollment
48,739
Founded
1911

18. Eindhoven University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#6 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
50%
Founded
1956

19. University of California - Berkeley

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
14%
Receiving Aid
61%
Average Aid
$21,406
Enrollment
45,036

20. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#5 in Asia
#4 in China
Acceptance Rate
10%
Founded
1953

21. University of Texas at Austin

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
29%
Average SAT
1365
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
71%

22. Stanford University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
35
Net Price
$14,402

23. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

For Industrial Engineering

#6 in Asia
#5 in China
Enrollment
47,000
Founded
1896

24. University of Calgary

For Industrial Engineering

#1 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
10%
Enrollment
33,000
Founded
1966

25. Arizona State University - Tempe

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
88%
Receiving Aid
92%
Average Aid
$12,201
Enrollment
77,881

26. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
60%
Average SAT
1415
Average ACT
32
Receiving Aid
85%

27. Cranfield University

For Industrial Engineering

#7 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
68%
Enrollment
4,825
Founded
1993

28. Nanyang Technological University

For Industrial Engineering

#7 in Asia
#2 in Singapore
Enrollment
33,000
Founded
1955

30. Technical University of Denmark

For Industrial Engineering

#8 in Europe
#1 in Denmark
Acceptance Rate
46%
Founded
1829

31. University of Wisconsin - Madison

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
60%
Average SAT
1410
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
64%

32. University of Iowa

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
86%
Average SAT
1240
Average ACT
26
Receiving Aid
87%

33. University of Alberta

For Industrial Engineering

#2 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
58%
Founded
1908

34. University of Cambridge

For Industrial Engineering

#9 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
21%
Founded
1209

35. University of Strathclyde

For Industrial Engineering

#10 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
42%
Founded
1964

36. Catholic University of Leuven

For Industrial Engineering

#11 in Europe
#1 in Belgium
Enrollment
62,693
Founded
1425

37. University of Waterloo

For Industrial Engineering

#3 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
53%
Enrollment
35,900
Founded
1957

38. Northwestern Polytechnical University

For Industrial Engineering

#9 in Asia
#6 in China
Acceptance Rate
47%
Enrollment
29,000
Founded
1938

39. University of Manitoba

For Industrial Engineering

#4 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
52%
Enrollment
29,800
Founded
1877

40. Chalmers University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#12 in Europe
#1 in Sweden
Acceptance Rate
79%
Enrollment
10,912
Founded
1829

41. University of Nottingham

For Industrial Engineering

#13 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
11%
Founded
1948

43. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#15 in Europe
#2 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
26%
Enrollment
23,321
Founded
2009

44. Zhejiang University

For Industrial Engineering

#10 in Asia
#7 in China
Enrollment
60,739
Founded
1897

46. University of Tehran

For Industrial Engineering

#11 in Asia
#1 in Iran
Acceptance Rate
12%
Enrollment
52,588
Founded
1934

47. University of Maryland - College Park

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
52%
Average SAT
1420
Average ACT
32
Receiving Aid
68%

48. North Carolina State University at Raleigh

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
47%
Average SAT
1355
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
74%

50. Ohio State University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
57%
Average SAT
1345
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
83%

51. National Tsing Hua University

For Industrial Engineering

#12 in Asia
#1 in Taiwan
Acceptance Rate
51%
Enrollment
16,547
Founded
1911

52. Imperial College London

For Industrial Engineering

#18 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
15%
Enrollment
17,565
Founded
1907

53. Technical University of Munich

For Industrial Engineering

#19 in Europe
#3 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
8%
Enrollment
44,000
Male:Female
63:37
Founded
1868

54. University of Windsor

For Industrial Engineering

#5 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
79%
Enrollment
16,092
Founded
1857

55. University of Cincinnati

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
85%
Average SAT
1250
Average ACT
27
Receiving Aid
85%

56. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#20 in Europe
#2 in Sweden
Acceptance Rate
41%
Enrollment
14,278
Founded
1827

57. Auburn University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
71%
Receiving Aid
76%
Average Aid
$10,448
Enrollment
31,526

58. Chongqing University

For Industrial Engineering

#13 in Asia
#8 in China
Acceptance Rate
30%
Enrollment
47,000
Founded
1929

59. Beijing Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#14 in Asia
#9 in China
Enrollment
27,000
Founded
1940

60. University of Stuttgart

For Industrial Engineering

#21 in Europe
#4 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
71%
Enrollment
26,457
Founded
1829

61. University of New South Wales

For Industrial Engineering

#1 in Oceania
#1 in Australia
Acceptance Rate
60%
Founded
1949

62. China University of Petroleum - Beijing

For Industrial Engineering

#15 in Asia
#10 in China
Acceptance Rate
9%
Enrollment
15,445
Founded
1953

63. University of Toronto

For Industrial Engineering

#6 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
43%
Enrollment
95,055
Founded
1827

64. University of Southern California

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
13%
Average SAT
1475
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$26,021

65. Northeastern University, China

For Industrial Engineering

#16 in Asia
#11 in China
Acceptance Rate
20%
Enrollment
46,000
Founded
1923

67. University of Florida

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
30%
Average SAT
1385
Average ACT
31
Receiving Aid
94%

68. National Cheng Kung University

For Industrial Engineering

#18 in Asia
#2 in Taiwan
Enrollment
20,292
Founded
1931

69. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

For Industrial Engineering

#19 in Asia
#13 in China
Acceptance Rate
34%
Enrollment
29,000
Founded
1952

70. Warsaw University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#22 in Europe
#1 in Poland
Acceptance Rate
71%
Enrollment
27,072
Founded
1826

71. Tongji University

For Industrial Engineering

#20 in Asia
#14 in China
Enrollment
37,000
Founded
1907

72. Linkoping University

For Industrial Engineering

#23 in Europe
#3 in Sweden
Acceptance Rate
43%
Enrollment
22,441
Founded
1975

73. Wuhan University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#21 in Asia
#15 in China
Acceptance Rate
12%
Enrollment
540,000
Founded
1946

74. Technical University of Berlin

For Industrial Engineering

#24 in Europe
#5 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
52%
Enrollment
35,149
Founded
1946

75. Harbin Institute of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#22 in Asia
#16 in China
Acceptance Rate
50%
Founded
1920

76. Polytechnic University of Valencia

For Industrial Engineering

#25 in Europe
#1 in Spain
Acceptance Rate
29%
Enrollment
28,450
Founded
1968

77. Dalian University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#23 in Asia
#17 in China
Acceptance Rate
30%
Enrollment
41,000
Founded
1949

78. Norwegian University of Science and Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#26 in Europe
#1 in Norway
Acceptance Rate
39%
Enrollment
42,031
Founded
1996

79. University of Tokyo

For Industrial Engineering

#24 in Asia
#1 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
35%
Enrollment
28,133
Founded
1877

80. University of Bath

For Industrial Engineering

#27 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
67%
Enrollment
18,857
Male:Female
53:47
Founded
1966

81. University of Padua

For Industrial Engineering

#28 in Europe
#3 in Italy
Acceptance Rate
40%
Enrollment
62,876
Founded
1222

82. Tianjin University

For Industrial Engineering

#25 in Asia
#18 in China
Enrollment
35,370
Founded
1895

83. Rutgers University - New Brunswick

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
68%
Average SAT
1355
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
69%

84. University of Kentucky

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
94%
Average SAT
1207
Average ACT
26
Receiving Aid
94%

85. University of Erlangen Nuremberg

For Industrial Engineering

#29 in Europe
#6 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
46%
Enrollment
38,878
Founded
1743

86. National Chiao Tung University

For Industrial Engineering

#26 in Asia
#3 in Taiwan
Acceptance Rate
17%
Founded
1958

87. Dresden University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#30 in Europe
#7 in Germany
Enrollment
31,517
Founded
1828

88. Iowa State University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
91%
Average SAT
1207
Average ACT
25
Receiving Aid
93%

89. University of Warwick

For Industrial Engineering

#31 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
14%
Enrollment
27,278
Founded
1965

90. University at Buffalo

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
70%
Average SAT
1270
Average ACT
28
Receiving Aid
84%

91. University of California - Los Angeles

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
11%
Receiving Aid
56%
Average Aid
$17,592
Enrollment
46,116

92. Xi'an Jiaotong University

For Industrial Engineering

#27 in Asia
#19 in China
Enrollment
40,346
Founded
1896

93. Northwestern University

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
7%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
35
Net Price
$29,999

94. Lancaster University

For Industrial Engineering

#32 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
19%
Founded
1964

95. University of Arizona

For Industrial Engineering

Acceptance Rate
87%
Average SAT
1245
Average ACT
25
Receiving Aid
95%

97. Silesian University of Technology

For Industrial Engineering

#33 in Europe
#2 in Poland
Acceptance Rate
50%
Enrollment
27,200
Founded
1945

98. Technical University of Catalonia

For Industrial Engineering

#34 in Europe
#2 in Spain
Acceptance Rate
75%
Enrollment
29,812

99. KAIST

For Industrial Engineering

#28 in Asia
Enrollment
10,249
Founded
1971

100. National Technical University of Athens

For Industrial Engineering

#35 in Europe
#2 in Greece
Acceptance Rate
20%
Founded
1836