Top civil engineering schools in Asia

China is home to 13 of the world’s top 200 universities for civil and structural engineering, the most of any country in Asia. Following Tsinghua University (8th), Tongji University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University also rank among the world’s top 50, and are joined by two Chinese entries within the top 100 – Peking University and Zhejiang University. In Japan, meanwhile, there are nine top civil engineering universities. As well as the University of Tokyo in 10th place, Kyoto University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are also among the top 50 for civil engineering, while Tohoku University is within the top 100. University of Tokyo Of India’s seven representatives, four Indian Institutes of Technology are ranked within the world’s top 100: IIT Bombay (IITB), IIT Delhi (IITD), IIT Kharagpur (IITKGP) and IIT Madras (IITM). South Korea also claims seven entries, with all but one ranking within the top 100, and two in the top 50: KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Seoul National University (SNU). A further five leading schools for civil and structural engineering can be found in Malaysia, including Universiti Malaya at 101-150. All of Hong Kong’s four entries in the civil engineering ranked appear within the global top 50. Following the University of Hong Kong (9th), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University comes in at joint 12th, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is 23rd, and the City University of Hong Kong is joint 45th. Taiwan also offers four entrants in the ranking, including National Taiwan University at joint 34th and National Cheng Kung University at 51-100. Finally, both Singapore and Thailand have two schools in the ranking. While Thailand’s offerings are both ranked 151-200, Singapore’s representatives are both within the top 50 – the National University of Singapore (3rd) and Nanyang Technological University (joint 18th).