When deciding about the best schools to study abroad, one need to rely on the World University Rankings of the institutes. , QS University Rankings and Times Higher Education University Rankings are the two most trusted rankings. These two bodies use different parameters to judge and rank around 900+ universities across the globe. These indicators are used to evaluate and analyse the university’s performance at the different levels and help in educating students about the best for them. Read on to know about the World University Rankings 2017.
World University Rankings:
Here we are giving the list of the Top Ranking Universities as per the two most credible brands in the World University Rankings.
Times Higher Education University Rankings and QS World University Rankings
Here is the list of the Top Universities in World as per the Times Higher Education University Rankings 2016-2017 and QS World University Rankings.
Sr. No. | Name | Times Higher Education Rank | QS Ranking |
1 | University of Oxford | 1 | 6 |
2 | California Institute of Technology | 2 | 5 |
3 | Stanford University | 3 | 2 |
4 | University of Cambridge | 4 | 4 |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5 | 1 |
6 | Harvard University | 6 | 3 |
7 | Princeton University | 7 | 11 |
8 | Imperial College London | 8 | 9 |
9 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 9 | 8 |
10 | University of California, Berkeley | =10 | 28 |
11 | University of Chicago | =10 | 10 |
12 | Yale University | 12 | 15 |
13 | University of Pennsylvania | 13 | 18 |
14 | University of California, Los Angeles | 14 | 31 |
15 | University College London | 15 | 7 |
16 | Columbia University | 16 | 20 |
17 | Johns Hopkins University | 17 | 17 |
18 | Duke University | 18 | =24 |
19 | Cornell University | 19 | 16 |
20 | Northwestern University | 20 | 26 |
21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 21 | 23 |
22 | University of Toronto | 22 | 32 |
23 | Carnegie Mellon University | 23 | 58 |
24 | National University of Singapore | 24 | 12 |
25 | London School of Economics and Political Science | =25 | =37 |
26 | University of Washington-Seattle | =25 | 59 |
27 | University of Edinburgh | 27 | 19 |
28 | Karolinska Institute | 28 | N/A |
29 | Peking University | 29 | 39 |
30 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | =30 | 14 |
31 | LMU Munich | =30 | =68 |
32 | New York University | 32 | =46 |
33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | =33 | 71 |
34 | University of Melbourne | =33 | 42 |
35 | Tsinghua University | 35 | =24 |
36 | King’s College London | =36 | 21 |
37 | University of British Columbia | =36 | 45 |
38 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | =36 | 66 |
39 | University of Tokyo | 39 | 34 |
40 | KU Leuven | 40 | 79 |
41 | University of California, San Diego | 41 | 40 |
42 | McGill University | 42 | 30 |
43 | Heidelberg University | =43 | N/A |
44 | University of Hong Kong | =43 | 27 |
45 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 45 | =53 |
46 | Technical University of Munich | 46 | 60 |
47 | Australian National University | 47 | 22 |
48 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 48 | N/A |
49 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 49 | 36 |
50 | University of Texas at Austin | 50 | 67 |
51 | Brown University | =51 | =49 |
52 | University of California, Davis | =51 | =85 |
53 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 53 | N/A |
54 | Nanyang Technological University | 54 | 13 |
55 | University of Manchester | 55 | 29 |
56 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 56 | 78 |
57 | Humboldt University of Berlin | =57 | N/A |
58 | Washington University in St Louis | =57 | N/A |
59 | Delft University of Technology | 59 | 62 |
60 | University of Queensland | =60 | =51 |
61 | University of Southern California | =60 | N/A |
62 | University of Sydney | =60 | =46 |
63 | University of Amsterdam | 63 | 57 |
64 | Boston University | 64 | 89 |
65 | Wageningen University & Research | 65 | N/A |
66 | École Normale Supérieure | 66 | 33 |
67 | University of Maryland, College Park | 67 | N/A |
68 | Pennsylvania State University | 68 | =95 |
69 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 69 | 144 |
70 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 70 | 92 |
71 | University of Bristol | 71 | 41 |
72 | Ohio State University | =72 | 88 |
73 | Seoul National University | =72 | 35 |
74 | Monash University | 74 | 65 |
75 | Free University of Berlin | 75 | N/A |
76 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 76 | 44 |
77 | Leiden University | 77 | =102 |
78 | RWTH Aachen University | =78 | 146 |
79 | University of New South Wales | =78 | =49 |
80 | University of Groningen | =80 | =113 |
81 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus | =80 | 145 |
82 | Dartmouth College | =82 | 158 |
83 | Emory University | =82 | =149 |
84 | Technical University of Berlin | =82 | N/A |
85 | University of Warwick | =82 | =51 |
86 | Utrecht University | 86 | =104 |
87 | Rice University | 87 | 90 |
88 | University of Glasgow | 88 | =63 |
89 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | =89 | =46 |
90 | University of Tübingen | =89 | 167 |
91 | Kyoto University | =91 | =37 |
92 | University of Helsinki | =91 | 91 |
93 | Uppsala University | 93 | =98 |
94 | Maastricht University | 94 | 173 |
95 | University of Freiburg | 95 | N/A |
96 | Durham University | =96 | 74 |
97 | Lund University | =96 | 73 |
98 | Aarhus University | =98 | 117 |
99 | University of Basel | =98 | =141 |
100 | University of California, Irvine | =98 | 156 |