Want to study at one of the world's top 100 universities?
The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of not only the top 100 universities in the world , but in fact the top 1,000.
In the 2020 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 29 representatives) or the UK (18). Here's a complete rundown of the world's top 100.
Rank University Location
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
2 Stanford University
United States
3 Harvard University
United States
4 University of Oxford
United Kingdom
5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States
6 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
7 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
8 UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom
9 Imperial College London
United Kingdom
10 University of Chicago
United States
=11 National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
=11 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
Singapore
13 Princeton University
United States
14 Cornell University United States
15 University of Pennsylvania
United States
16 Tsinghua University
17 Yale University United States
=18 Columbia University
United States
=18 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Switzerland
20 University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
21 University of Michigan
United States
=22 Peking University China
=22 University of Tokyo
Japan
24 Johns Hopkins University
United States
=25 University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
=25 Duke University United States
27 University of Manchester
United Kingdom
28 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
=29 Australian National University
Australia
=29 University of Toronto
Canada
31 Northwestern University
United States
32 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
=33 King's College London
United Kingdom
=33 Kyoto University Japan
=35 McGill University Canada
=35 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
37 Seoul National University
South Korea
38 University of Melbourne
Australia
39 New York University (NYU)
United States
40 Fudan University China
41 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
South Korea
42 University of Sydney
Australia
43 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Australia
44 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom
45 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States
46 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong
47 University of Queensland
Australia
48 Carnegie Mellon University
United States
49 University of Bristol
United Kingdom
50 Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
51 University of British Columbia
Canada
52 City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
53 Universite PSL France
54 Zhejiang University
China
55 Technical University of Munich
Germany
56 University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
57 Brown University United States
=58 Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
=58 Monash University
Australia
=60 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
=60 Ecole Polytechnique
France
62 University of Warwick
United Kingdom
63 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany
64 University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
65 University of Texas at Austin
United States
66 Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg
Germany
67 University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
68 University of Washington
United States
69 National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
70 Universiti Malaya (UM)
Malaysia
71 Osaka University Japan
=72 Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
=72 University of Copenhagen
Denmark
74 Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Argentina
75 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
76 University of Zurich
Switzerland
77 Sorbonne University
France
=78 Durham University
United Kingdom
=78 University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
80 KU Leuven Belgium
81 University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
82 Tohoku University Japan
83 Korea University South Korea
84 Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russia
85 Rice University United States
86 University of Western Australia
Australia
87 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
South Korea
88 University of Auckland
New Zealand
89 University of Science and Technology of China
China
90 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States
91 Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
92 Lund University Sweden
=93 Pennsylvania State University
United States
=93 University of Leeds
United Kingdom
95 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
South Korea
96 University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
97 University of Southampton
United Kingdom
=98 Boston University United States
=98 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
100 University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
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