Technical Institute

MIT opened after the Civil War began, built on William Barton Rogers' plan for polytechnic education by doing. Its radar lab at th...

Caltech began as Throop University and was rebuilt by George Ellery Hale into a science powerhouse deliberately kept small. With r...

Andrew Carnegie founded technical schools for Pittsburgh workers; the merger with Mellon Institute in 1967 created today's univers...

Founded to rebuild the postbellum South's industrial base, Georgia Tech opened with 84 students and now enrolls about 45,000 acros...

Indiana's land-grant university chose Lafayette after a Tippecanoe County bid, opening with six teachers and 39 students. Its scho...

Stephen Van Rensselaer endowed a school for the application of science to common life in 1824, creating the oldest technological u...

Imperial formed by merging the Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, and City and Guilds College on Albertopolis land b...

Founded by the new Swiss federal state to educate engineers and teachers, ETH Zurich grew into continental Europe's top-ranked uni...

Founded as a private school in Lausanne in 1853 and elevated to federal institute status in 1969, EPFL became continental Europe's...

King Ludwig II founded the polytechnic school that became TUM, now Germany's top-ranked technical university. Carl von Linde, prof...

Founded as a polytechnic in Aachen after the Franco-Prussian war began, RWTH grew into Germany's biggest technical university with...

King William II founded the Royal Academy to train civil engineers for the kingdom's expanding infrastructure. Delft became the Ne...

KTH traces its spirit to Christopher Polhem's 1697 mechanical laboratory and opened formally in 1827 as the Technological Institut...

Founded by the National Convention during the Revolution, Polytechnique was militarized by Napoleon with its famous motto for coun...

Founded with US aid as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science, KAIST was created to industrialize Korean technology without sendi...

Tsinghua opened in 1911 on the gardens of a former prince, funded by remitted Boxer indemnity money as a prep school for students ...

Nanyang University opened in 1955 as the Chinese-language university of Southeast Asia, funded by rubber tycoon Tan Lark Sye and d...

Founded as the Tokyo Vocational School in 1881, Tokyo Tech became Japan's dedicated science and engineering university. In 2024 it...

Founded in 1912 in Haifa under Ottoman rule, Technion opened classes in 1924 after a war and a language war over German or Hebrew ...

Established with UNESCO and Soviet collaboration as the second IIT, Bombay moved to Powai's lakeside campus in 1959. The IIT joint...