Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently released their 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Since 2003, the school has used a transparent methodology to crunch third party data into their popular list. This year, nine of the 10 top engineering schools are located within America. A lot of funding is pouring into the STEM movement which looks to ensure that America leads the world in technological professionals. As a result, it could be argued that the list is artificially inflated. This should be good news for the USA’s STEM movement as The Chronical of Higher Education noted that the ARWU list is “the best-known and most influential global ranking of universities.”

Here is a list of ARWU’s top 20 engineering schools:

1                     Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA                 

2                     Stanford University, USA

3                     University of California, Berkeley, USA                          

4                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA       

5                     The University of Texas at Austin, USA

6                     The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK         

7                     Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

8                     University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA        

9                     Carnegie Mellon University, USA

10                   Texas A&M University, USA

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