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Automation & Control 2021
Ranks universities globally for research output and academic impact in automation and control.
ARWU relies entirely on objective, verifiable academic indicators (Nobel Prizes, Nature/Science papers, Highly Cited Researchers) and uses no reputation surveys.
How does Automation & Control evaluate universities?
Automation & Control, published by Academic Ranking of World Universities, evaluates universities worldwide using key indicators such as AWARD, CNCI, IC, Q1, TOP, each assigned a distinct weight according to a publicly documented methodology. Data sources combine academic peer reviews, employer surveys, bibliometric databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, and institutional self-reported statistics, all independently verified by the publisher's research team. The 2021 edition assessed 200 universities from 13 countries and regions, covering teaching quality, research output, internationalization, and graduate employability across undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs. Academic Ranking of World Universities recollects raw data annually and cross-checks results to ensure the rankings reflect each institution's most current performance in faculty strength, scholarly productivity, global reach, and student outcomes, providing a reliable reference for prospective students, parents, and education researchers.
Which are the top universities in Automation & Control 2021?
The top universities in Automation & Control 2021 are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ETH Zurich, University of California, Berkeley, Nanyang Technological University. This edition, published by Academic Ranking of World Universities, evaluated 200 universities from 13 countries and regions using indicators such as AWARD, CNCI, IC, Q1, TOP. Rankings reflect weighted performance across multiple dimensions; students should consider methodology differences and their own academic priorities when interpreting results.
How does Automation & Control differ from other ranking systems?
ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities), created by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003 as the world's first international university ranking, is based entirely on objective, verifiable academic indicators and uses no reputation surveys: alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10%), faculty winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20%), highly cited researchers across subject fields (20%), papers published in Nature and Science (20%), papers indexed in SCIE and SSCI (20%), and per-capita academic performance (10%). In contrast, QS and THE both incorporate reputation questionnaires as core weights, while US News combines reputation surveys with bibliometric data. ARWU's transparent methodology and reproducibility make it authoritative for evaluating research strength and academic prestige.
Total 200 universities
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University
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Country
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| 1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 344.1 | 92.6 | 78.1 | 69.2 | 64.3 | 95.3 |
| 2 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 310.9 | 100.0 | 62.2 | 65.0 | 50.5 | 85.1 |
| 3 |
ETH Zurich
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🇨🇭 Switzerland | 299.1 | 65.5 | 85.1 | 78.3 | 55.9 | 76.9 |
| 4 |
University of California, Berkeley
(UCB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 284.9 | 75.6 | 75.2 | 65.3 | 52.4 | 68.6 |
| 5 |
Nanyang Technological University
(NTU)
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🇸🇬 Singapore | 284.4 | 0.0 | 82.3 | 87.9 | 85.4 | 99.1 |
| 6 |
Stanford University
(SU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 278.9 | 84.5 | 80.1 | 59.1 | 43.7 | 58.7 |
| 7 |
California Institute of Technology
(CIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 277.0 | 100.0 | 83.7 | 64.9 | 30.6 | 49.7 |
| 8 |
Harbin Institute of Technology
(HIT)
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🇨🇳 China | 276.8 | 0.0 | 79.7 | 56.9 | 100.0 | 85.8 |
| 9 |
Imperial College London
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 275.1 | 65.5 | 68.2 | 83.8 | 51.6 | 73.1 |
| 10 |
Harvard University
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🇺🇸 United States | 274.0 | 65.5 | 100.0 | 73.1 | 41.3 | 52.5 |
| 11 |
University of Michigan
(UM)
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🇺🇸 United States | 268.8 | 53.5 | 63.3 | 62.2 | 59.1 | 80.6 |
| 12 |
City University of Hong Kong
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 266.8 | 0.0 | 92.8 | 57.4 | 73.8 | 88.7 |
| 13 |
University of Newcastle Australia
(UoN)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 262.2 | 65.5 | 63.6 | 88.3 | 46.0 | 69.5 |
| 14 |
University of Toronto
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🇨🇦 Canada | 260.4 | 84.5 | 62.0 | 76.5 | 43.9 | 54.7 |
| 15 |
University of Groningen
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🇳🇱 Netherlands | 250.5 | 53.5 | 66.4 | 80.0 | 40.7 | 73.9 |
| 16 |
Southeast University
(SEU)
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🇨🇳 China | 245.0 | 0.0 | 88.9 | 64.0 | 76.3 | 67.0 |
| 17 |
Zhejiang University
(ZJU)
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🇨🇳 China | 242.4 | 0.0 | 76.1 | 61.6 | 83.7 | 70.3 |
| 18 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 242.3 | 53.5 | 69.8 | 73.0 | 36.7 | 67.8 |
| 19 |
Beihang University
(BUAA)
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🇨🇳 China | 241.0 | 0.0 | 76.3 | 55.2 | 84.6 | 69.1 |
| 20 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH)
|
🇸🇪 Sweden | 239.0 | 0.0 | 66.4 | 84.5 | 55.7 | 100.0 |
| 21 |
Australian National University
(ANU)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 237.2 | 53.5 | 58.4 | 88.5 | 39.0 | 68.6 |
| 22 |
Tsinghua University
(THU)
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🇨🇳 China | 226.7 | 0.0 | 70.6 | 58.9 | 76.1 | 68.2 |
| 23 |
University of Hong Kong
(HKU)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 225.6 | 0.0 | 86.4 | 62.9 | 55.9 | 70.7 |
| 24 |
University of California San Diego
(UCSD)
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🇺🇸 United States | 222.5 | 0.0 | 72.9 | 77.3 | 46.7 | 87.4 |
| 25 |
The University of Adelaide
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🇦🇺 Australia | 222.2 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 96.2 | 45.3 | 57.7 |
| 25 |
University of Cambridge
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 222.2 | 65.5 | 60.0 | 82.4 | 30.6 | 49.7 |
| 27 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
(SJTU)
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🇨🇳 China | 220.4 | 0.0 | 64.7 | 51.3 | 72.7 | 72.7 |
| 28 |
Northeastern University
(NEU)
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🇨🇳 China | 219.6 | 0.0 | 69.4 | 46.5 | 75.8 | 65.2 |
| 29 |
Sapienza University of Rome
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🇮🇹 Italy | 219.5 | 75.6 | 61.7 | 68.0 | 27.8 | 40.8 |
| 30 |
National University of Singapore
(NUS)
|
🇸🇬 Singapore | 216.3 | 0.0 | 80.2 | 82.2 | 65.1 | 54.7 |
| 31 |
Beijing Institute of Technology
(BIT)
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🇨🇳 China | 213.8 | 0.0 | 70.2 | 54.7 | 66.1 | 66.5 |
| 32 |
Paris-Saclay University
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🇫🇷 France | 209.4 | 0.0 | 53.5 | 78.8 | 49.8 | 90.3 |
| 33 |
Brunel University of London
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 208.1 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 96.3 | 39.7 | 49.1 |
| 34 |
University of Manchester
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 207.3 | 37.8 | 74.7 | 83.9 | 35.1 | 42.9 |
| 35 |
Guangdong University of Technology
(GDUT)
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🇨🇳 China | 203.1 | 0.0 | 94.5 | 61.6 | 50.8 | 45.5 |
| 36 |
Polytechnic Institute of Milan
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🇮🇹 Italy | 202.9 | 0.0 | 80.3 | 71.7 | 50.0 | 58.2 |
| 37 |
Victoria University
(VU)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 202.1 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 99.7 | 38.6 | 43.5 |
| 38 |
Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 199.9 | 0.0 | 74.0 | 71.7 | 46.3 | 65.2 |
| 39 |
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
(NUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 199.1 | 0.0 | 72.5 | 53.3 | 57.8 | 58.2 |
| 40 |
Chongqing University
(CQU)
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🇨🇳 China | 197.8 | 0.0 | 89.4 | 64.0 | 48.9 | 46.7 |
| 41 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
(GT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 197.6 | 0.0 | 65.2 | 65.1 | 53.8 | 65.7 |
| 42 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
(HUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 196.6 | 0.0 | 77.1 | 55.3 | 72.1 | 36.4 |
| 43 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong
(CUHK)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 196.2 | 0.0 | 74.4 | 62.4 | 46.3 | 63.0 |
| 44 |
Shandong University of Science and Technology
(SDUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 195.6 | 0.0 | 90.9 | 62.6 | 42.5 | 49.7 |
| 45 |
University of Science and Technology Beijing
(USTB)
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🇨🇳 China | 194.6 | 0.0 | 88.2 | 60.2 | 47.6 | 46.7 |
| 46 |
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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🇮🇱 Israel | 194.2 | 53.5 | 50.8 | 68.2 | 30.8 | 45.5 |
| 47 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 194.0 | 0.0 | 82.2 | 63.4 | 40.9 | 58.2 |
| 48 |
Eindhoven University of Technology
(TU/e)
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🇳🇱 Netherlands | 193.5 | 0.0 | 60.3 | 78.5 | 46.7 | 70.7 |
| 49 |
New York University
(NYU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 193.3 | 37.8 | 70.4 | 70.4 | 30.2 | 40.8 |
| 50 |
University of Padua
(UNIPD)
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🇮🇹 Italy | 192.9 | 0.0 | 67.8 | 70.9 | 41.8 | 69.1 |