Centrale Nantes in the rankings

Centrale Nantes stands out in a number of international research rankings, reflecting the excellence of its research activities.
 

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025

Centrale Nantes is ranked among the top French schools and universities for the quality of its research and its reputation in the QS World University Rankings - Subject Rankings 2025 - one of the most respected world rankings, published today. Centrale Nantes is ranked 102nd in the world and 4th in France for Mechanical Engineering and in the top 200 for Civil Engineering, also 4th in France. Overall for Engineering and Technology, Centrale Nantes is ranked 308th in the world.
 
  • Mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing: Centrale Nantes stands at 102nd in the world for this subject and 4th in France - behind Université Paris-Saclay, Polytechnique and Université PSL
  • Civil and structural: the school is ranked 4th France and is one of only six French institutions ranked in the top 200 worldwide for this subject alongside Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Université PSL and INSA Lyon, Université Grenoble Alpes.
  • Electrical and electronic: Centrale Nantes ranks in the world's top 400.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2025

Of the 1488 institutions ranked in the world by the Times Higher Education in the field of engineering, Centrale Nantes is ranked in the top 400 for 2025. This places the school in third place for engineering schools in France.

Centrale Nantes is also ranked in the top 500 worldwide in 2025 for computer science and the top 600 for physical sciences.

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Stanford - World's Top 2% Scientists

20 Centrale Nantes researchers are included in this list of the World's top 2% scientists published in 2023 by Stanford.
The Stanford ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database for 2022 and includes more than 210,000 researchers from the more than 8 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields taken into account.

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Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023

Nantes Université, first French university to enter Shanghai's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for Marine/Ocean Engineering.

The Shanghai 2023 "Marine/Ocean Engineering" GRAS ranks Nantes Université, which includes Centrale Nantes, France's leader player in ocean engineering, in 41st place worldwide. This makes it the first and only French institution in this ranking, which lists the world's 50 best universities per academic subject.

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Published on June 26, 2023 Updated on March 12, 2025