Once again, Universidade de Lisboa has achieved several top positions nationally in engineering fields, thanks to the contributions of Instituto Superior Técnico. The Best Global Universities Rankings, released on June 17 by USNews, placed ULisboa 20th out of 390 European institutions in engineering (marking it as the top institution in Portugal). ULisboa ranks first in the country for Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. Additionally, the university secured European silver in Mechanical Engineering and bronze in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

At the European level, ULisboa is second out of 56 institutions in Civil Engineering—where Técnico’s contributions are primarily responsible—and is also within the top 25% of institutions for Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics.

The results of the Best Global Universities Rankings are based on 13 indicators that focus on research performance of higher education institutions – global research reputation; regional research reputation; publications; books; conferences; normalised citation impact; total citations; number of publications that are among the 10% most cited; percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited; international collaboration; international collaboration relative to country; number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1% most cited in their respective field; and percentage of total publications that are among the top 1% most highly cited papers.