World University Rank 2018 |
World University Rank 2017 |
University |
Country/Region |
1 |
1 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
2 |
4 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
=3 |
2 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States |
=3 |
3 |
Stanford University |
United States |
5 |
5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
United States |
6 |
6 |
Harvard University |
United States |
7 |
7 |
Princeton University |
United States |
8 |
8 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
9 |
=10 |
University of Chicago |
United States |
=10 |
9 |
ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
Switzerland |
=10 |
13 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States |
12 |
12 |
Yale University |
United States |
13 |
17 |
Johns Hopkins University |
United States |
14 |
16 |
Columbia University |
United States |
15 |
14 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
United States |
16 |
15 |
University College London |
United Kingdom |
17 |
18 |
Duke University |
United States |
18 |
=10 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States |
19 |
19 |
Cornell University |
United States |
20 |
20 |
Northwestern University |
United States |
21 |
21 |
University of Michigan |
United States |
=22 |
24 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
=22 |
22 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
24 |
23 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States |
=25 |
=25 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
United Kingdom |
=25 |
=25 |
University of Washington |
United States |
=27 |
27 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
=27 |
32 |
New York University |
United States |
=27 |
29 |
Peking University |
China |
30 |
35 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
31 |
41 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States |
32 |
=33 |
University of Melbourne |
Australia |
33 |
=33 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States |
=34 |
=36 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
=34 |
=30 |
LMU Munich |
Germany |
36 |
=36 |
King’s College London |
United Kingdom |
37 |
=36 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
United States |
=38 |
=30 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
=38 |
28 |
Karolinska Institute |
Sweden |
40 |
=43 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
41 |
46 |
Technical University of Munich |
Germany |
42 |
42 |
McGill University |
Canada |
43 |
45 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
United States |
44 |
49 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong |
45 |
=43 |
Heidelberg University |
Germany |
46 |
39 |
University of Tokyo |
Japan |
47 |
40 |
KU Leuven |
Belgium |
48 |
47 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
49 |
50 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States |
=50 |
=51 |
Brown University |
United States |
=50 |
=57 |
Washington University in St Louis |
United States |
52 |
54 |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Singapore |
53 |
48 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States |
=54 |
=51 |
University of California, Davis |
United States |
=54 |
55 |
University of Manchester |
United Kingdom |
=56 |
53 |
University of Minnesota |
United States |
=56 |
56 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
United States |
58 |
76 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
59 |
63 |
University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
60 |
70 |
Purdue University |
United States |
61 |
=60 |
University of Sydney |
Australia |
62 |
=57 |
Humboldt University of Berlin |
Germany |
63 |
59 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
64 |
65 |
Wageningen University & Research |
Netherlands |
65 |
=60 |
University of Queensland |
Australia |
66 |
=60 |
University of Southern California |
United States |
67 |
77 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
68 |
86 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
69 |
67 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
United States |
=70 |
64 |
Boston University |
United States |
=70 |
=72 |
Ohio State University |
United States |
=72 |
69 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
=72 |
NR |
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris |
France |
=74 |
=91 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
=74 |
=72 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea |
76 |
71 |
University of Bristol |
United Kingdom |
77 |
68 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States |
78 |
=113 |
McMaster University |
Canada |
79 |
=78 |
RWTH Aachen University |
Germany |
=80 |
88 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
=80 |
74 |
Monash University |
Australia |
82 |
95 |
University of Freiburg |
Germany |
=83 |
=80 |
University of Groningen |
Netherlands |
=83 |
101 |
Michigan State University |
United States |
85 |
=78 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia |
=86 |
87 |
Rice University |
United States |
=86 |
93 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
88 |
75 |
Free University of Berlin |
Germany |
89 |
=82 |
Dartmouth College |
United States |
90 |
=91 |
University of Helsinki |
Finland |
91 |
=82 |
University of Warwick |
United Kingdom |
92 |
=82 |
Technical University of Berlin |
Germany |
93 |
=96 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
94 |
=89 |
University of Tübingen |
Germany |
=95 |
=98 |
University of Basel |
Switzerland |
=95 |
=89 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
South Korea |
97 |
=96 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom |
98 |
=82 |
Emory University |
United States |
99 |
=98 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States |
=100 |
=113 |
University of Bonn |
Germany |
=100 |
=116 |
University of Colorado Boulder |
United States |
=100 |
=80 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States |
103 |
94 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands |
104 |
109 |
University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
=105 |
=110 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland |
=105 |
108 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States |
107 |
118 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
108 |
103 |
University of Montreal |
Canada |
=109 |
=98 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
=109 |
120 |
University of Copenhagen |
Denmark |
=111 |
=137 |
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) |
South Korea |
=111 |
125 |
University of Western Australia |
Australia |
=113 |
112 |
University of Göttingen |
Germany |
=113 |
=121 |
University of Virginia |
United States |
115 |
=116 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
116 |
155 |
Fudan University |
China |
=117 |
150 |
Indiana University |
United States |
=117 |
=131 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Republic of Ireland |
=119 |
107 |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
=119 |
119 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
121 |
=113 |
Queen Mary University of London |
United Kingdom |
122 |
=121 |
Radboud University Nijmegen |
Netherlands |
=123 |
=104 |
Georgetown University |
United States |
=123 |
=121 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University |
France |
125 |
102 |
University of Mannheim |
Germany |
=126 |
131 |
Arizona State University |
United States |
=126 |
NR |
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
Germany |
=126 |
=121 |
University of Southampton |
United Kingdom |
129 |
128 |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Belgium |
=130 |
=126 |
University of Exeter |
United Kingdom |
=130 |
=137 |
University of Geneva |
Switzerland |
132 |
=153 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China |
133 |
=144 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Germany |
=134 |
142 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia |
=134 |
=144 |
Stockholm University |
Sweden |
136 |
106 |
University of Zurich |
Switzerland |
=137 |
=104 |
Pohang University of Science and Technology |
South Korea |
=137 |
129 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
139 |
133 |
University of Leeds |
United Kingdom |
140 |
175 |
Pompeu Fabra University |
Spain |
=141 |
130 |
University of Birmingham |
United Kingdom |
=141 |
177 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
=143 |
134 |
University of Florida |
United States |
=143 |
=110 |
University of St Andrews |
United Kingdom |
145 |
=170 |
University of Cologne |
Germany |
146 |
132 |
University of Oslo |
Norway |
=147 |
163 |
Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Spain |
=147 |
147 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom |
=147 |
149 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
=150 |
=137 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
=150 |
143 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
152 |
=151 |
University of Lausanne |
Switzerland |
=153 |
176 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark |
=153 |
=151 |
University of Rochester |
United States |
=155 |
=190 |
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna |
Italy |
=155 |
164 |
TU Dresden |
Germany |
=155 |
=135 |
Ulm University |
Germany |
158 |
=126 |
Case Western Reserve University |
United States |
=159 |
172 |
University of Leicester |
United Kingdom |
=159 |
169 |
Texas A&M University |
United States |
161 |
=156 |
University of Arizona |
United States |
=162 |
146 |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
United States |
=162 |
=182 |
Cardiff University |
United Kingdom |
=162 |
160 |
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Germany |
=165 |
=161 |
University of Vienna |
Austria |
=165 |
=156 |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
=165 |
=186 |
University of Würzburg |
Germany |
168 |
NR |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
United States |
=169 |
201-250 |
Nanjing University |
China |
=169 |
=135 |
Tufts University |
United States |
171 |
148 |
University of Cape Town |
South Africa |
172 |
141 |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
United States |
=173 |
159 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden |
=173 |
=161 |
University of Münster |
Germany |
=175 |
201-250 |
Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Belgium |
=175 |
=190 |
Newcastle University |
United Kingdom |
=177 |
158 |
University of Liverpool |
United Kingdom |
=177 |
201-250 |
Zhejiang University |
China |
=179 |
178 |
University of Luxembourg |
Luxembourg |
=179 |
=153 |
University of Twente |
Netherlands |
181 |
179 |
Paris-Sud University |
France |
=182 |
201-250 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
France |
=182 |
=192 |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Hong Kong |
184 |
=137 |
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
Italy |
185 |
=188 |
University of Aberdeen |
United Kingdom |
186 |
=182 |
University of Miami |
United States |
187 |
=180 |
University of Dundee |
United Kingdom |
=188 |
=165 |
University of East Anglia |
United Kingdom |
=188 |
201-250 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China |
190 |
201-250 |
Aalto University |
Finland |
191 |
=165 |
University of Massachusetts |
United States |
192 |
=165 |
University of Auckland |
New Zealand |
193 |
=182 |
Northeastern University |
United States |
194 |
=188 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russian Federation |
195 |
=198 |
Tilburg University |
Netherlands |
196 |
351-400 |
Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 |
France |
197 |
=173 |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
United Kingdom |
=198 |
=165 |
University of California, Riverside |
United States |
=198 |
=170 |
University of Gothenburg |
Sweden |
=198 |
=195 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
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