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 2026

Centrale Nantes is now ranked for two new subjects: Materials Sciences and Computer Science.

  • Mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing - top 250, 4th school in France
  • Engineering and technology -  Centrale Nantes stands at 355th in the world for this subject, 5th school in France
  • Materials sciences - ranked 401 - 550
  • Electrical and electronic engineering : ranked 401 - 550 
  • Computer science and information systems : ranked 751-850
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2026

Centrale Nantes is ranked in the top 500 for Engineering and Computer Science and the top 800 for Physical Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2026, out today. In these three areas, Centrale Nantes stands out in France and ranks third among engineering schools.

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Stanford - World's Top 2% Scientists

18 Centrale Nantes researchers are included in this list of the World's top 2% scientists published in 2025 by Stanford.
The Stanford ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database for 2023 and includes more than 100,000 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 2025

Nantes University (including Centrale Nantes), first and only French university ranked in ocean engineering in the Shanghai's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

The Shanghai 2025 "Marine/Ocean Engineering" GRAS ranks Nantes Université, which includes Centrale Nantes, France's leader player in ocean engineering, in the top 75 worldwide. This makes it the first and only French institution in this ranking, which lists the world's 100 best universities per academic subject.

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Published on June 26, 2023 Updated on March 26, 2026

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