EngiRank 2025, the ranking of European universities providing engineering programmes, has confirmed that the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava is the best technical university in Slovakia. The first place in the ranking belongs to the Technical University of Denmark, followed by the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and KU Leuven in Belgium. The ranking was published on 1 December in Brussels.
The ranking includes 300 universities from 36 European countries, most from France (58) and Germany (32). The Czech Republic is represented by ten, Hungary by five and Slovakia by three universities. The highest-ranked Slovak university in EngiRank 2025 is the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (139th overall), followed by the TU Košice (166th) and the University of Žilina (192nd).
The ranking of universities is determined by the assessment based on five criteria. The two most important are research (28%) and innovation (25%). The third criterion assesses the institution’s efforts to achieve progress in sustainable development (10%); internationalization represents 16%, and the criterion of Engineering and technological capabilities 21%.
"I am pleased that this year's edition of EngiRank has confirmed the STU as the best technical university in Slovakia. Yet, our ambition is to be compared in the European context and, in the foreseeable future, to be ranked in the top hundred. We are aware that ranking is not the goal, but rather a means and a lens through which potential students, teachers, scientists and industrial partners view us," reacted Maximilián Strémy, the STU Rector.
According to the EngiRank compilers, the target groups were: 1) potential students and their parents, who may find assistance when choosing a field of study and an institution in Europe that will offer the best chances to find a satisfactory job after graduation; 2) employers, including the European hi-tech industry, looking for talented graduates of technological institutions; 3) university management in monitoring the quality of university administration and operations.
Credibility of EngiRank is based on the quality and reliability of the data; the ranking is based only on trusted external databases containing information on European universities collected in a uniform manner, such as the Scopus bibliographic database, the EPO worldwide patent statistics database (PATSTAT), information on participation in the European Commission initiatives (the Community Research and Development Information Service - CORDIS, the European Education Area website), and databases of programmes accredited by quality assurance agencies.
To improve the accuracy of the ranking and avoid comparing of too different universities, the compilers have limited the range of the schools evaluated by including only the institutions of a solid engineering profile, that exceed a certain size threshold.
More information and the full ranking are available on www.engirank.eu.
