UBC Engineering ranks top two in Canada

Aerial view of UBC Vancouver campus in June 2024

The latest subject rankings from Times Higher Education, QS World University Rankings for engineering and technology, and Maclean's place UBC Engineering second-highest in Canada, and 25th globally according to QS. 

“These rankings speak to UBC Engineering’s outstanding research and commitment to an excellent educational experience,” said Dr. James Olson, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science. “Our faculty members are integrating policy, technology and design to solve problems relating to human inequity and climate change—and teaching students how they, too, can use those skills to positively transform our future here in British Columbia, Canada and the world.”

Shaping tomorrow’s leaders

UBC Engineering graduates remain in high demand, with programs beginning to add 338 undergraduate engineering spaces across the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses for domestic students, focusing on biomedical, chemical, computer, and integrated engineering.

Current students and recent graduates are already making waves in the communities around them, from collaborating in interdisciplinary groups to design engineering solutions for real-world humanitarian problems, to receiving highly competitive and prestigious awards like the Order of the White Rose and the Rhodes Scholarship.

Solutions for people, places and planet

UBC Engineering members are applying their discoveries and expertise in building supportive communities and resilient cities to create lasting change.

Building healthy, sustainable cities is a recurring theme among UBC Engineering faculty: a recent transportation engineering and planning study examines the increase in e-bikes and other micromobility devices in Metro Vancouver, and suggests ways for municipalities to manage these devices on shared pathways.

Engineers on both UBC campuses are also leading efforts for renewable energy, with the launch of a Smart Hydrogen Energy District at the Vancouver campus, and a new Battery Innovation Centre at the Okanagan campus to advance next-generation, solid-state battery technology. Together, these projects highlight UBC Engineering's role in driving forward the clean energy transition.

Why study engineering at UBC

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