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Automation & Control 2022
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 2022 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 2022?
The top universities in Automation & Control 2022 are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ETH Zurich, 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 | 343.3 | 92.6 | 80.8 | 69.9 | 61.3 | 94.7 |
| 2 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 305.3 | 100.0 | 61.5 | 62.0 | 48.3 | 83.1 |
| 3 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
(SJTU)
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🇨🇳 China | 303.3 | 75.6 | 65.5 | 53.7 | 77.4 | 74.1 |
| 4 |
ETH Zurich
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🇨🇭 Switzerland | 293.9 | 65.5 | 85.9 | 78.9 | 54.1 | 72.6 |
| 5 |
Nanyang Technological University
(NTU)
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🇸🇬 Singapore | 289.6 | 0.0 | 85.8 | 89.0 | 86.1 | 100.0 |
| 6 |
Stanford University
(SU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 282.9 | 84.5 | 83.9 | 61.6 | 43.3 | 59.0 |
| 7 |
Imperial College London
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 276.5 | 65.5 | 66.9 | 85.1 | 51.9 | 75.2 |
| 8 |
University of California, Berkeley
(UCB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 276.4 | 75.6 | 75.9 | 66.0 | 48.7 | 63.0 |
| 9 |
California Institute of Technology
(CIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 273.3 | 100.0 | 86.0 | 63.8 | 29.6 | 44.8 |
| 10 |
University of Michigan
(UM)
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🇺🇸 United States | 272.6 | 53.5 | 62.6 | 60.6 | 60.7 | 83.7 |
| 11 |
Harbin Institute of Technology
(HIT)
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🇨🇳 China | 269.8 | 0.0 | 74.8 | 54.8 | 100.0 | 84.1 |
| 12 |
City University of Hong Kong
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 268.0 | 0.0 | 94.9 | 58.8 | 75.9 | 85.3 |
| 13 |
Harvard University
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🇺🇸 United States | 267.7 | 65.5 | 99.5 | 75.3 | 39.8 | 47.8 |
| 14 |
University of Toronto
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🇨🇦 Canada | 266.3 | 84.5 | 67.3 | 76.6 | 44.0 | 55.2 |
| 15 |
University of Groningen
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🇳🇱 Netherlands | 257.0 | 53.5 | 67.0 | 82.6 | 42.0 | 78.0 |
| 16 |
University of Newcastle Australia
(UoN)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 256.8 | 65.5 | 63.8 | 89.4 | 43.3 | 66.3 |
| 17 |
Southeast University
(SEU)
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🇨🇳 China | 252.7 | 0.0 | 86.9 | 64.5 | 81.1 | 71.9 |
| 18 |
Beihang University
(BUAA)
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🇨🇳 China | 250.2 | 0.0 | 78.0 | 58.3 | 86.8 | 73.7 |
| 19 |
Zhejiang University
(ZJU)
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🇨🇳 China | 241.3 | 0.0 | 75.4 | 61.2 | 83.7 | 69.9 |
| 20 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 237.4 | 53.5 | 67.3 | 70.8 | 36.1 | 66.3 |
| 21 |
Australian National University
(ANU)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 235.0 | 53.5 | 57.0 | 88.1 | 38.2 | 68.8 |
| 22 |
Tsinghua University
(THU)
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🇨🇳 China | 234.8 | 0.0 | 72.9 | 58.3 | 78.4 | 71.9 |
| 23 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH)
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🇸🇪 Sweden | 233.3 | 0.0 | 64.2 | 85.4 | 55.5 | 96.4 |
| 24 |
Northeastern University
(NEU)
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🇨🇳 China | 229.8 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 45.8 | 79.5 | 69.2 |
| 25 |
University of Cambridge
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 225.7 | 65.5 | 62.0 | 81.8 | 31.3 | 50.5 |
| 26 |
University of California San Diego
(UCSD)
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🇺🇸 United States | 221.8 | 0.0 | 74.0 | 77.0 | 46.1 | 86.3 |
| 27 |
Beijing Institute of Technology
(BIT)
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🇨🇳 China | 221.2 | 0.0 | 71.4 | 55.0 | 68.8 | 69.9 |
| 28 |
Sapienza University of Rome
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🇮🇹 Italy | 220.9 | 75.6 | 61.2 | 65.2 | 28.1 | 43.0 |
| 29 |
Polytechnic Institute of Milan
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🇮🇹 Italy | 216.1 | 0.0 | 84.3 | 74.6 | 53.0 | 63.8 |
| 30 |
University of Hong Kong
(HKU)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 214.6 | 0.0 | 81.2 | 62.1 | 55.9 | 65.1 |
| 31 |
University of Manchester
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 213.5 | 37.8 | 78.2 | 85.6 | 36.1 | 44.2 |
| 32 |
The University of Adelaide
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🇦🇺 Australia | 213.4 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 95.8 | 41.1 | 53.2 |
| 33 |
Brunel University of London
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 213.1 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 96.5 | 42.2 | 51.6 |
| 34 |
Paris-Saclay University
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🇫🇷 France | 212.0 | 0.0 | 54.4 | 81.7 | 50.0 | 91.2 |
| 35 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
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🇺🇸 United States | 211.8 | 75.6 | 60.7 | 69.9 | 25.4 | 36.1 |
| 36 |
National University of Singapore
(NUS)
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🇸🇬 Singapore | 210.6 | 0.0 | 80.7 | 84.1 | 62.0 | 51.1 |
| 37 |
Guangdong University of Technology
(GDUT)
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🇨🇳 China | 210.2 | 0.0 | 93.2 | 60.3 | 56.6 | 48.3 |
| 38 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
(HUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 203.5 | 0.0 | 75.7 | 56.0 | 77.5 | 39.0 |
| 39 |
Delft University of Technology
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🇳🇱 Netherlands | 200.7 | 0.0 | 64.1 | 80.9 | 52.8 | 67.6 |
| 40 |
University of Science and Technology Beijing
(USTB)
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🇨🇳 China | 200.4 | 0.0 | 89.6 | 61.3 | 51.3 | 47.2 |
| 41 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
(HKPU)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 198.9 | 0.0 | 77.9 | 58.4 | 58.8 | 50.5 |
| 42 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong
(CUHK)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 198.5 | 0.0 | 76.5 | 62.9 | 47.8 | 61.7 |
| 43 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
(GT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 198.4 | 0.0 | 67.7 | 66.2 | 53.2 | 64.3 |
| 44 |
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
(NUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 198.3 | 0.0 | 71.0 | 54.6 | 57.9 | 58.5 |
| 45 |
Swinburne University of Technology
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🇦🇺 Australia | 196.8 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 92.9 | 40.6 | 37.6 |
| 46 |
Eindhoven University of Technology
(TU/e)
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🇳🇱 Netherlands | 196.7 | 0.0 | 62.4 | 79.8 | 47.2 | 71.1 |
| 47 |
Chongqing University
(CQU)
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🇨🇳 China | 196.4 | 0.0 | 83.8 | 61.4 | 52.1 | 48.3 |
| 48 |
Shandong University of Science and Technology
(SDUST)
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🇨🇳 China | 195.8 | 0.0 | 86.9 | 60.5 | 46.3 | 50.5 |
| 49 |
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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🇮🇱 Israel | 195.2 | 53.5 | 59.0 | 67.5 | 28.3 | 41.0 |
| 50 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 194.9 | 0.0 | 82.2 | 60.9 | 41.6 | 59.0 |