KTH ranked 33rd worldwide in Engineering
KTH Royal Institute of Technology shows solid performance in the newly released QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.
In the broad subject area Engineering & Technology, KTH is ranked 33rd in the world. By contrast, that subject ranking was 37th place in the past two editions.
The Engineering subject ranking highlights the leading universities across general engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and chemical engineering.
KTH’s Engineering ranking is 12th highest in Europe, fifth highest in the EU alone, and highest among universities in Sweden. Worldwide, MIT led in this category.
Across the indicators used by QS, KTH performs especially well in citations per paper, where the university scores strongly in nearly all subject areas. Indicator weightings vary by discipline, which affects how individual strengths influence the final rankings.
Eighteen individual subjects at KTH were ranked this year, with 13 placing among the world’s top 100. Among the strongest results:
- Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering – 20th
- Electrical & Electronic Engineering – 20th
- Materials Science – 24th
- Architecture / Built Environment – 44th
- Chemical Engineering – 51st
- Civil & Structural Engineering – 51–100th
- Statistics & Operational Research – 51–100th
- Data Science & Artificial Intelligence – 51–100th
- Computer Science & Information Systems – 61st
- Mathematics – 62nd
- Environmental Sciences – 68th
- Chemistry – 72nd
- Physics & Astronomy – 72nd
In other broad subjects: KTH took 318th place in Life Sciences & Medicine; 351st place in Arts & Humanities; 85th place in Natural Sciences; and the university placed in the 451–500 bracket in Social Sciences & Management.
David Callahan