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- EPFL Ranking Highlights
- EPFL University Ranking
- EPFL US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- EPFL QS Ranking 2025
- EPFL THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- EPFL Course Ranking
EPFLRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, EPFL has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, EPFL stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A by Shiksha Grading, EPFL is also rated A for MS. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the EPFL courses are in the range of A and B+ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, EPFL ranks #26, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #36 in 2024. EPFL also ranks #33 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, EPFL witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #41 in 2023.
Check out more details on EPFL ranking in the below content.
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EPFLUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 69 | 88 |
EPFLQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | – / – | 9 | 10 |
| World University | 16 | 36 | 26 |
| Architecture and Built Environment | 13 | 11 | – / – |
| Biological Sciences | 30 | – / – | – / – |
| Engineering and Technology | 11 | 10 | – / – |
| Mathematics | 18 | 17 | – / – |
| Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 16 | 18 | – / – |
| Physics and Astronomy | 13 | 11 | – / – |
EPFLTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 40 | 41 | 33 |
| Engineering | 19 | 19 | 20 |
| Life Sciences | 38 | 45 | 56 |
| PG Computer Science | 19 | 22 | 17 |
EPFLCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded EPFL streams, such as Engineering, Science, and Aerospace Engineering with A, A, and B+ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
However, in case students are wondering how well is EPFL ranked for its subjects as per other ranking bodies, the institute is popular for its Engineering & Technology, Architecture & Built Environment, PG Computer Science, and Engineering courses all over the world. In the QS ranking 2024, EPFL stands at #10 for Engineering & Technology program. Additionally, it is also ranked at #11 for Architecture & Built Environment. Other than these, Physics & Astronomy at #11, and Mathematics at #17 also got ranked by QS 2024. It is recommended to study Engineering & Technology as it ranks #10 by QS (the best ranked course of this institute under this ranking body). This ranking stood at #11 in 2023.
Read on to learn more about EPFL courses and subject rankings in the below article.
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Both EPFL and ETH Zurich are public research universities based in Switzerland. Both the universities are known for offering top-rated academic programs across a wide range of subjects. There are various factors that a student should consider before choosing a university such as tuition fees, accomm
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