Top civil engineering schools in Europe

The UK claims the largest share of Europe’s leading civil engineering departments, with 25 entries in the ranking. As well as two in the top 10, also ranked among the world’s top 50 are the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield. Each with seven representatives in the civil engineering ranking are Germany and Italy. While Italy claims two within the top 50 – the Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino – Germany offers four within the top 100, including KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. There are plenty more leading universities for civil and structural engineering across Europe, including four in Portugal, and three each in Belgium, France, Greece, Spain and Sweden. Of these, Greece’s National Technical University of Athens, Spain’s Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Sweden’s KTH, Royal Institute of Technology are within the top 50. KU Leuven Belgium Also among the top 100 are the Belgian KU Leuven, the Portuguese University of Porto, the Greek Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and two more entries from Sweden – Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University. Each with two entries in the ranking are the Czech Republic, Ireland, and Switzerland. The highest ranked of these are found in Switzerland, with ETH Zurich and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) both ranked within the top 25. Other European countries featured in the ranking, with one representative each, include Austria, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Poland. Of these, the highest ranked are Denmark’s Technical University of Denmark (joint 41st) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (51-100).