text: where's the best college of engineering in the world?   this is probably very hard to determine. you have to define the criteria for "best" first. most famous graduates? most successful graduates? highest fraction of successful graduates? biggest research grants? most number of patents from faculty? greatest number of publications per faculty member?   institutions rise and fall with time. a very good school 100 years ago might not be so good now. and vice versa. and engineering is a broad discipline. what type of engineering? some schools might be great in electrical engineering, and awful in mechanical engineering, or vice versa. and what exactly is engineering? where is the boundary between engineering and chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, etc? some schools might be great at practical engineering, but very weak in the theoretical aspects, and vice versa. the number of criteria one could consider could be very long, with hundreds or thousands of items.   and even then, one would have a lot of disagreement. even producing a list of the 100 best in the world would be quite challenging, and there would be lots of controversy.