The list of the top universities of geotechnical engineering 10 in China is as follows: Tongji University, Southeast University, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Tianjin University, Dalian University of Technology, Hohai University and Hunan University.

Geotechnical engineering is a new technical system established by European and American countries in civil engineering practice in the 1960s. Geotechnical engineering takes solving the problems of rock mass and soil engineering, including foundation and foundation, slope and underground engineering, as its research object. All kinds of projects above ground, underground and in water are collectively called civil engineering. The part of civil engineering involving rocks, soil, underground and water is called geotechnical engineering.