Discover the best universities in the world according to the QS World University Rankings, revealing the top 500 universities from around the world, covering 80 different locations.
QS University Rankings – ranking of universities globally
According to the QS World University Rankings
| Global ranking | the University |
|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2 | Imperial College London |
| 3 | Oxford university |
| 4 | Harvard university |
| 5 | Cambridge University |
| 6 | Stanford University |
| 7 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
| 8 | National University of Singapore |
| 9 | University College London |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 13 | University of Melbourne |
| 14 | Peking University |
| 15 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 16 | Cornell University |
| 17 | University of Hong Kong |
| 18 | Sydney University |
| 19 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 20 | Tsinghua University |
| 21 | University of Chicago |
| 22 | Princeton University |
| 23 | Yale University |
| 24 | PSL University |
| 25 | University of Toronto |
| 26 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne |
| 27 | University of Edinburgh |
| 28 | Technical University of Munich |
| 29 | McGill University |
| 30 | Australian National University |
| 31 | Seoul National University |
| 32 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 32 | University of Tokyo |
| 34 | جامعة كولومبيا |
| 34 | University of Manchester |
| 36 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 37 | Monash University |
| 38 | University of British Columbia |
| 39 | Fudan University |
| 40 | King's College London |
| 40 | University of Queensland |
| 42 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 43 | New york university |
| 44 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 45 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 46 | Polytechnic Institute of Paris |
| 47 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 47 | Zhejiang University |
| 49 | Delft University of Technology |
| 50 | Kyoto University |
| 50 | Northwestern University |
| 50 | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 53 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 54 | University of Bristol |
| 55 | University of Amsterdam |
| 56 | Yonsei University |
| 57 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 58 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 59 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| 60 | University of Malaya (UM) |
| 61 | Duke University |
| 62 | City University of Hong Kong |
| 63 | University of KU Leuven |
| 63 | Sorbonne University |
| 65 | University of Auckland |
| 66 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 67 | Korea University |
| 68 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 69 | University of Warwick |
| 69 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 71 | University of Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| 72 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 73 | University of Paris-Saclay |
| 74 | Royal Institute of Technology KTH |
| 75 | Lund University |
| 76 | University of Washington |
| 77 | University of Western Australia |
| 78 | University of Glasgow |
| 79 | Brown University |
| 80 | University of Birmingham |
| 80 | University of Southampton |
| 82 | University of Adelaide |
| 82 | University of Leeds |
| 84 | Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg |
| 84 | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 86 | Osaka University |
| 87 | Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin |
| 88 | University of Technology Sydney |
| 89 | Durham University |
| 89 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 89 | Purdue University |
| 92 | University of Sao Paulo |
| 93 | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC) |
| 94 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 94 | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
| 96 | University of Alberta |
| 97 | Free University of Berlin |
| 98 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) |
| 99 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 100 | University of Copenhagen |
| 101 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals |
| 102 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 103 | Uppsala University |
| 104 | University of St Andrews |
| 105 | University of Sheffield |
| 105 | Utrecht University |
| 107 | Tohoku University |
| 108 | University of Nottingham |
| 109 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 109 | University of Zurich |
| 111 | Polytechnic of Milan |
| 108 | Boston University |
| 113 | Aalto University |
| 114 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 115 | University of Waterloo |
| 116 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 117 | University of Helsinki |
| 118 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) |
| 119 | University of Oslo |
| 120 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 120 | Western University |
| 122 | Qatar University |
| 123 | RMIT University |
| 123 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) |
| 125 | University of Southern California |
| 126 | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 126 | University College Dublin |
| 128 | Stockholm University |
| 129 | Newcastle University |
| 130 | University of California, Davis |
| 131 | University of Basel |
| 132 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 133 | Alma Mater of Studies – University of Bologna |
| 133 | Macquarie University |
| 133 | University of Science and Technology of China |
| 136 | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 137 | University of Vienna |
| 138 | National University of Malaysia (UKM) |
| 139 | Chalmers University of Technology |
| 139 | University of Chile |
| 141 | Lancaster University |
| 141 | Leiden University |
| 141 | Rice University |
| 144 | Aarhus University |
| 145 | Nanjing University |
| 146 | Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) |
| 147 | Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 148 | Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) |
| 149 | King Abdulaziz University (KAU) |
| 150 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) |
| 150 | University of Bath |
| 152 | Michigan State University |
| 152 | Nagoya University |
| 154 | Texas A&M University |
| 155 | University of Geneva |
| 155 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 155 | Wageningen University Research |
| 158 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 159 | University of Montreal |
| 159 | University of Groningen |
| 161 | University of Bern |
| 162 | Hanyang University |
| 163 | Al-Farabi Kazakh National University |
| 164 | Complutense University of Madrid |
| 165 | University of Barcelona |
| 165 | University of Liverpool |
| 167 | Kyushu University |
| 167 | University of Wollongong |
| 169 | Ghent University |
| 169 | University of Exeter |
| 171 | University of Cape Town |
| 172 | University of Reading |
| 173 | Hokkaido University |
| 174 | Curtin University |
| 175 | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| 176 | McMaster University |
| 171 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 178 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 179 | University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) |
| 179 | University of the Andes |
| 181 | University of Technology Malaysia |
| 181 | Waseda University |
| 183 | Hamad bin Khalifa University |
| 184 | York University |
| 185 | Monterey Technology |
| 186 | Cardiff University |
| 187 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
| 188 | Keio University |
| 189 | University of Ottawa |
| 190 | Vienna University of Technology |
| 191 | University of Hamburg |
| 192 | Tongji University |
| 193 | Queen's University Kingston |
| 194 | University of Gothenburg |
| 194 | Wuhan University |
| 196 | Emory University |
| 197 | Deakin University |
| 198 | Autonomous University of Madrid |
| 198 | University of Calgary |
| 200 | Arizona State University |
| 200 | King Saud University |
| 332 | American University of Sharjah |
| 203 | Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) |
| 203 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 205 | Pont Paris School of Technology |
| 206 | Queen's University Belfast |
| 206 | University of Indonesia |
| 208 | Ohio State University |
| 209 | Tel Aviv University |
| 210 | National Tsing Hua University |
| 211 | Indian Institute of Science |
| 212 | Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
| 213 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) |
| 214 | University of Otago |
| 215 | National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) |
| 215 | University of Florida |
| 217 | La Trobe University |
| 218 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 219 | National Yangming Chiao Tung University |
| 219 | National University of Colombia |
| 221 | Free University of Amsterdam |
| 222 | Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
| 222 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) |
| 224 | Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 224 | Loughborough University |
| 224 | University of Lausanne |
| 227 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) |
| 227 | Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn |
| 229 | Chulalongkorn University |
| 230 | Maastricht University |
| 230 | Free University of Brussels |
| 232 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAM) |
| 233 | University of Twente |
| 234 | Technical University of Dresden |
| 235 | University of Waikato |
| 236 | University of Padova |
| 236 | University of Aberdeen |
| 236 | University of Rochester |
| 239 | Gadjah Mada University |
| 239 | Massey University |
| 241 | Polytechnic of Turin |
| 241 | Technical University of Darmstadt |
| 243 | Dartmouth College |
| 244 | Victoria University of Wellington |
| 245 | University of Macau |
| 246 | Charles University |
| 246 | University of Sussex |
| 248 | Vanderbilt University |
| 249 | University of Navarra |
| 250 | American University of Beirut |
| 251 | Taylor University |
| 252 | Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 252 | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 252 | University of Göttingen |
| 255 | Griffith University |
| 256 | Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) |
| 256 | Heriot Watt University |
| 258 | University of Warsaw |
| 259 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 260 | University of Lisbon |
| 523 | Canadian University Dubai |
| 261 | University of Canterbury | Te Were Wānanga o Waitaha |
| 263 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) |
| 264 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 265 | UCSI University |
| 265 | Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) |
| 267 | University of Antwerp |
| 267 | University of the Witwatersrand |
| 269 | Tianjin University |
| 269 | University of Technology Petronas (UTP) |
| 271 | Beijing Normal University |
| 272 | Radboud University |
| 273 | University College Cork |
| 273 | University of Galway |
| 275 | Dalhousie University |
| 275 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 275 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 278 | University of Porto |
| 278 | Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) |
| 280 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) |
| 281 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 281 | University of Strathclyde |
| 283 | University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 284 | Southern University of Science and Technology |
| 285 | Middle East Technical University |
| 285 | Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) |
| 285 | University of Cologne |
| 285 | University of Leicester |
| 285 | جامعة ميلانو |
| 285 | University of Surrey |
| 291 | Swinburne University of Technology |
| 291 | University of Bergen |
| 293 | University of Arizona |
| 293 | University of Tasmania |
| 295 | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 296 | Stellenbosch University |
| 297 | University of Virginia |
| 298 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University |
| 298 | Swansea University |
| 300 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| 301 | Georgetown University |
| 302 | Beijing Institute of Technology |
| 302 | University of Paris |
| 304 | Linköping University |
| 304 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| 306 | Aalborg University |
| 307 | University of California, Irvine |
| 308 | Airlangga University |
| 309 | Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| 309 | University of Innsbruck |
| 311 | North Carolina State University |
| 312 | Jagiellonian University |
| 312 | University of Johannesburg |
| 314 | University of Stuttgart |
| 315 | Quaid-e-Azam University |
| 316 | Peoples' Friendship University |
| 316 | Shandong University |
| 316 | University of Notre Dame |
| 319 | Simon Fraser University |
| 320 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 321 | L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) |
| 321 | National Technical University of Athens |
| 321 | Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) |
| 324 | University of Miami |
| 324 | University of Southern Denmark (SDU) |
| 326 | Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) |
| 326 | Istanbul Technical University |
| 328 | Kyung Hee University |
| 328 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| 328 | Delhi University |
| 331 | Sun Yat-sen University |
| 501 | Abu Dhabi University |
| 332 | University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| 334 | University of Grenoble Alpes |
| 335 | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) |
| 336 | Flinders University |
| 336 | Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology LUT |
| 336 | Sichuan University |
| 336 | University of the Philippines |
| 340 | University of Saskatchewan |
| 340 | University of South Australia |
| 342 | Brunel University London |
| 342 | Sharif University of Technology |
| 344 | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
| 344 | Tufts University |
| 344 | University of Oulu |
| 347 | Tilburg University |
| 347 | University of Naples - Federico II |
| 349 | University of Victoria (UVic) |
| 350 | Cairo University |
| 350 | Political Science |
| 352 | City University London |
| 353 | National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Islamabad |
| 354 | University of Pretoria |
| 355 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 355 | University of Coimbra |
| 355 | University of Luxembourg |
| 358 | University of Tartu |
| 359 | Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) |
| 359 | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru |
| 359 | University of Aveiro |
| 362 | Sultan Qaboos university |
| 362 | Xiamen University |
| 362 | York University |
| 365 | Saint Petersburg State University |
| 365 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) |
| 367 | Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster |
| 368 | Mahidol University |
| 368 | University of Jordan |
| 368 | University of Tehran |
| 371 | George Washington University |
| 371 | Lincoln University |
| 371 | Polytechnic University of Catalonia · BarcelonaTech (UPC) |
| 371 | University of Turin |
| 375 | University of Florence |
| 375 | University of Turku |
| 377 | Nankai University |
| 377 | Pontifical University of Javeriana |
| 377 | University of Tsukuba |
| 380 | Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg |
| 380 | University of Kent |
| 382 | University of Pisa |
| 383 | Anna University |
| 384 | Western Sydney University |
| 385 | South China University of Technology |
| 385 | University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) |
| 387 | Belarusian State University |
| 388 | New University of Lisbon |
| 389 | Vita Salute San Rafael University |
| 389 | University of Cyprus (UCY) |
| 389 | Virginia Tech and State University |
| 392 | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| 393 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| 393 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 393 | University of Rome “Tor Vergata” |
| 396 | Northeastern University |
| 396 | Ruhr University Bochum |
| 396 | Sejong University |
| 396 | University of Liège |
| 396 | University of Southern Queensland |
| 401 | Kazan Federal University (Volga Region) |
| 401 | Koc University |
| 403 | Amirkabir University of Technology |
| 403 | University of Canberra |
| 405 | National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA) |
| 405 | Satpayev University |
| 405 | USI – Italian University of Switzerland |
| 408 | Birkbeck, University of London |
| 408 | Masaryk University |
| 410 | HSE University |
| 410 | the American University in Cairo |
| 412 | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) |
| 413 | Graz University of Technology |
| 413 | Yeshiva University |
| 415 | Concordia University |
| 416 | Oxford Brookes University |
| 416 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| 418 | University of Dundee |
| 418 | Boğaziçi University |
| 420 | Czech Technical University in Prague |
| 421 | Dublin City University |
| 421 | University of Limerick |
| 423 | Aston University |
| 423 | Laval University |
| 425 | National Taipei University of Technology |
| 426 | IPB University (also known as Bogor Agricultural University) |
| 426 | Leibniz University Hannover |
| 428 | Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg |
| 428 | Southeastern University |
| 430 | University of Science and Technology Beijing |
| 431 | Central South University |
| 431 | Tomsk State University |
| 431 | University of Granada |
| 477 | Ajman University |
| 435 | IE University |
| 436 | Iran University of Science and Technology |
| 436 | Murdoch University |
| 436 | Polytechnic University of Valencia |
| 439 | Vilnius University |
| 440 | Singapore University of Technology and Design |
| 440 | University of Studies in Pavia |
| 442 | Colorado State University |
| 442 | Novosibirsk State University |
| 442 | Catholic University of the Sacred Heart |
| 445 | James Cook University |
| 445 | Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| 445 | University of Valencia |
| 448 | Dalian University of Technology |
| 448 | Hunan University |
| 448 | University of Montpellier |
| 451 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China |
| 452 | Beihang University (formerly BUAA) |
| 452 | National Taiwan Normal University |
| 452 | University of Kansas |
| 452 | University of Stirling |
| 456 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech) |
| 456 | Umeå University |
| 456 | University of Strasbourg |
| 456 | University of Guelph |
| 460 | Stony Brook University, State University of New York |
| 461 | University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) |
| 462 | University of Tampere |
| 462 | University of Seville |
| 464 | Macau University of Science and Technology |
| 465 | Kobe University |
| 466 | University of Konstanz |
| 466 | Ramon Lol University |
| 466 | University at Buffalo SUNY |
| 466 | Washington State University |
| 470 | Iowa State University |
| 471 | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| 472 | Essex,University |
| 472 | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 474 | Bangor University |
| 474 | Hiroshima University |
| 474 | University of Potsdam |
| 434 | Al Sharekah University |
| 477 | Bilkent University |
| 477 | Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore) |
| 477 | Royal Holloway University of London |
| 481 | Aix-Marseille University |
| 481 | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina |
| 481 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 484 | China Agricultural University |
| 485 | American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) |
| 485 | Sun Yat-sen National University |
| 487 | University of Mannheim |
| 488 | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| 489 | Chongqing University |
| 489 | Chung Ang University (CAU) |
| 489 | Isfahan University of Technology |
| 489 | Shanghai University |
| 489 | United Nations Environment Programme |
| 489 | University of Jyväskylä |
| 495 | Central Queensland University (CQUniversity Australia) |
| 495 | Doy Tan University |
| 497 | Jilin University |
| 497 | National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) |
| 497 | University of Costa Rica |
| 497 | University of California, Riverside |
| 202 | Khalifa University of Science and Technology |
| 501 | Colorado School of Mines |
| 501 | East China Normal University |
| 501 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
Source: topuniversities
