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  Some of the best engineering universities in the world are located in England. According to the Times Higher Education Supplement ratings for 2009, three of the top 11 universities for engineering are found in the U.K. Each of the universities represented in the list are world renown for their interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research in a variety of fields and disciplines.
  
  

University of Cambridge

• According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, a well-known publication that rates college and university programs worldwide, the University of Cambridge's engineering program ranked fourth among all universities across the globe. Cambridge's engineering department is the largest department in the university. The department is comprised of six different research divisions including energy, fluid mechanics and turbomachinery, electrical engineering, mechanics, materials and design, civil, structural, environmental and sustainable development, information engineering and manufacturing and management. The engineering department at Cambridge is multidisciplinary in its orientation with all engineering disciplines within the same department. It also sponsors five prominent research centers.
  
  Cambridge University
  Department of Engineering
  Trumpington Street
  Cambridge CB2 1PZ
  U.K.
  +44-0-12-2333-2600
  eng.cam.ac.uk
  
  

Imperial College, London

• University College London (UCL) is comprised eight different faculties. The faculty of engineering is one of the more prominent. The Times Supplement rated UCL's engineering program as sixth in the world, tied with the University of Tokyo. The engineering school consists of 10 different departments that include biochemical engineering, chemical engineering, civil, environmental and geomatic engineering, computer science, electronic and electrical engineering, management science and innovation, mechanical engineering, medical physics and bioengineering, a school of energy and resources (located in Australia) and an institute for crime sciences. The faculty houses 20 separate research centers or institutes and conducts multidisciplinary research in the fields of "mathematical, physical, engineering and life sciences, biomedicine, laws, social and historical sciences, arts and humanities."
  
  University College London
  Faculty of Engineering
  Gower Street
  London
  WC1E 6BT
  U.K.
  44-0-20-7679-3912
  
  

University of Oxford

• The University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Sciences was rated 11th overall by the Times Higher Education Supplement. The department offers courses in all of the major engineering branches and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Areas of research include, but are not limited to, thermo-fluids, turbomachinery, materials engineering, civil and offshore engineering, information, control and vision engineering, electrical and opto-electronic engineering, chemical and process engineering and biomedical engineering. Notable among Oxford's research institutes is its Institute of Biomedical Engineering, a state-of-the-art research facility completed in 2008 that allows researchers across multiple disciplines to come together and play a leading role in the fusion of medical research with engineering technology and science.
  
  Department of Engineering Science
  University of Oxford
  Parks Road
  OXFORD
  OX1 3PJ
  UK
  44-0-18-6527-3000
  eng.ox.ac.uk