Waterloo Engineering cracked the top 50 in the broad category of engineering and technology in worldwide university rankings released today by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) for 2020.
The faculty also notched four top-100 results in individual engineering subjects in the annual rankings, which examined more than 13,000 programs at 1,368 universities.
Rick Culham is the interim dean of Waterloo Engineering.
"Waterloo Engineering continues to attract the best scholars and the brightest students from across Canada and around the world," said Rick Culham, the interim dean. "The latest QS rankings provide further validation that our investments in talent and infrastructure improvements are paying dividends as we strive to be one of the world’s pre-eminent centres of engineering education and research."
Waterloo ranked 41st in the world in the engineering and technology category, one of five broad subject areas evaluated by QS. That is up from 46th in 2019 and 70th in 2018
In individual subject rankings, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering all landed spots between 51 and 100. Architecture made the top 150.
Other engineering disciplines at Waterloo weren’t among the 48 subjects ranked by the United Kingdom company based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research citations and impact.
In all five engineering subjects covered by the rankings, Waterloo placed in the top four in Canada.