Rankings
National rankings
2025 ranking of engineering schools:
2024 ranking of engineering schools:
2023 ranking of engineering schools:
Challenges - 1st Institution with a 5-year integrated master's program
International rankings
QS Ranking
QS World University Ranking is an annual ranking of universities published by Quacquarelli Symonds, global analysts of higher education. It is a global ranking, but there are also rankings by discipline, QS World University Rankings by Subject, and by region such as QS Asian University Ranking. Founded in 2004, the QS rankings cover more than 1,300 universities worldwide. Their main criteria are academic reputation, reputation among employers, staff-to-student ratio, the proportion of international staff and students, and publication citation rate per teacher.
QS World University Ranking 2025
- In the top 30% of the best universities in the world;
- 170th/510 in Europe;
- 11th/35 in France;
- 2nd in Lyon (behind ENS).
QS Europe University Ranking 2025
- 218th European institution out of a total of 684 institutions.
QS World University Ranking by Subject 2024
Ranking position in France // Worldwide:
- Materials Sciences: 6ᵉ // 101-150
- Mechanical Engineering: 6ᵉ // = 128
- Civil and Structural Engineering: 3ᵉ // 151-200
- Engineering & Technology: 8ᵉ // = 200
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 8ᵉ // 201=250
- Computer Science and Information Systems: 8ᵉ // 201=250
Times Higher Education (THE)
Launched in 2004, the Times Higher Education Rankings (THE Rankings) compare over 1,500 universities worldwide. There is a global ranking (THE World University Rankings), but also by discipline, by region, and, since 2018, by impact. THE Impact Rankings are the only ones to evaluate, at the international level, universities in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, gathered in the 2030 Agenda.
The criteria for the global ranking are: reputation among peers, reputation among employers, student leadership, research impact, and internationalisation of staff and students.
Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2024
INSA Lyon ranks in the global top 300 of higher education institutions committed to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) #201-300
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10) #201-300
- Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11) #201-300
Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only academic ranking of global universities that assesses the quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, and research performance without relying on surveys and university data submissions.
Center for World University Ranking 2025
INSA Lyon among the top 3.5% of the world's best universities. Out of 21,462 institutions evaluated, INSA Lyon ranks 732nd worldwide and 37th out of 71 French institutions.
Shanghai Ranking
The Jiao-tong Shanghai University Ranking, known as the Shanghai Ranking, was launched in 2003 by a team of researchers with the aim of measuring the gap between Chinese universities and international institutions. Despite its limited criteria and focus on STEM, it remains a benchmark ranking at the international level.
The criteria of the Shanghai Ranking are the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of publications in Science & Nature, the number of most cited researchers, the number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, the academic performance measured by five indicators and divided by the number of teacher-researchers.
Shanghai Ranking by Subject 2024
- Among the world's top 25 institutions in mechanical engineering;
- Among the world's top 200 institutions for mathematics and metallurgical engineering.