In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Engineering Mineral 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.
| 2016 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | Colorado School of Mines | United States | 100.0 | 88.8 | 83.2 | 80.5 | 92.3 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 73.7 | 95.4 | 91.4 | 91.0 | 83.3 |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States | 72.6 | 92.2 | 91.6 | 92.7 | 82.4 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 68.7 | 99.7 | 88.7 | 84.4 | 80.3 |
| 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 65.0 | 100.0 | 92.8 | 91.4 | 80.1 |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 69.3 | 86.2 | 91.8 | 91.9 | 79.4 |
| 7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 71.0 | 86.9 | 89.3 | 85.5 | 79.1 |
| 8 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 66.4 | 84.3 | 91.0 | 95.0 | 78.0 |
| 9 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 60.8 | 86.8 | 100.0 | 99.7 | 77.7 |
| 10= | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 73.7 | 85.9 | 82.1 | 71.3 | 77.0 |
| 10= | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 67.6 | 91.0 | 83.3 | 83.4 | 77.0 |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 65.9 | 74.5 | 93.2 | 94.2 | 76.0 |
| 13 | McGill University | Canada | 73.9 | 75.5 | 85.0 | 73.7 | 75.9 |
| 14 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 71.2 | 77.7 | 85.0 | 78.6 | 75.7 |
| 15 | Kyoto University | Japan | 67.4 | 86.3 | 82.1 | 79.3 | 75.2 |
| 16 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 68.7 | 85.6 | 83.0 | 72.9 | 74.9 |
| 17 | Peking University | China | 59.8 | 90.2 | 87.4 | 89.7 | 74.5 |
| 18 | Universidad de Chile | Chile | 69.4 | 79.5 | 84.6 | 72.9 | 74.2 |
| 19 | Curtin University | Australia | 62.6 | 76.1 | 91.5 | 91.9 | 74.0 |
| 20 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 66.4 | 73.4 | 85.1 | 87.9 | 73.8 |
| 21 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 60.1 | 89.1 | 89.6 | 77.3 | 72.9 |
| 22 | Texas A&M University | United States | 67.8 | 73.9 | 80.0 | 81.1 | 72.8 |
| 23 | Mines, ParisTech | France | 73.5 | 83.7 | 70.4 | 55.1 | 72.3 |
| 24 | Tohoku University | Japan | 65.8 | 76.6 | 83.9 | 75.9 | 72.2 |
| 25 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 66.0 | 90.7 | 78.3 | 61.6 | 72.1 |
| 26= | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 66.7 | 60.1 | 89.7 | 87.0 | 71.9 |
| 26= | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | 66.3 | 81.0 | 85.8 | 64.8 | 71.9 |
| 26= | Saint-Petersburg State University | Russia | 67.1 | 85.8 | 78.6 | 62.7 | 71.9 |
| 26= | Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg | Germany | 74.3 | 57.7 | 83.7 | 71.3 | 71.9 |
| 30 | University of Toronto | Canada | 62.6 | 74.0 | 88.0 | 79.3 | 71.2 |
| 31 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 62.3 | 82.5 | 78.8 | 76.6 | 71.0 |
| 32 | Queen's University | Canada | 67.5 | 70.4 | 83.9 | 69.6 | 70.9 |
| 33 | The University of Western Australia (UWA) | Australia | 56.8 | 76.5 | 87.7 | 87.9 | 70.0 |
| 34 | Heriot-Watt University | United Kingdom | 70.8 | 73.1 | 73.7 | 57.8 | 69.7 |
| 35 | The University of Adelaide | Australia | 60.2 | 74.8 | 86.7 | 76.6 | 69.6 |
| 36 | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | Brazil | 62.5 | 75.2 | 81.1 | 73.7 | 69.5 |
| 37 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 56.8 | 84.3 | 86.0 | 73.7 | 69.2 |
| 38 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 59.7 | 60.7 | 93.0 | 87.9 | 69.1 |
| 39= | Monash University | Australia | 52.9 | 87.8 | 87.1 | 79.3 | 69.0 |
| 39= | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 56.2 | 90.1 | 80.9 | 71.3 | 69.0 |
| 41 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 63.3 | 69.9 | 84.5 | 70.5 | 68.9 |
| 42= | Columbia University | United States | 53.6 | 74.9 | 91.6 | 88.4 | 68.8 |
| 42= | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 60.4 | 85.7 | 77.1 | 65.9 | 68.8 |
| 44 | University of Alberta | Canada | 61.3 | 64.5 | 84.1 | 82.2 | 68.5 |
| 45 | University of Utah | United States | 71.8 | 48.2 | 80.1 | 70.5 | 68.1 |
| 46= | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) | Saudi Arabia | 70.8 | 84.3 | 64.3 | 40.2 | 67.9 |
| 46= | University of Arizona | United States | 60.4 | 50.1 | 93.2 | 91.4 | 67.9 |
| 48 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 50.9 | 81.1 | 89.1 | 85.0 | 67.8 |
| 49 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 50.4 | 83.9 | 86.3 | 85.0 | 67.7 |
| 50= | Tsinghua University | China | 59.3 | 90.0 | 74.2 | 59.1 | 67.6 |
| 50= | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 59.7 | 68.8 | 83.4 | 76.6 | 67.6 |
