Top 500 Universities in the World 2018 Based on the QS World University Rankings 2018 |
Rank | University | Locaiton |
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
2 | Stanford University | United States |
3 | Harvard University | United States |
4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
7 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
9 | University of Chicago | United States |
10 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
11 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
12 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
13 | Princeton University | United States |
14 | Cornell University | United States |
15 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
16 | Yale University | United States |
17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
18 | Columbia University | United States |
19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
20 | The Australian National University | Australia |
21= | Duke University | United States |
21= | University of Michigan | United States |
23= | King's College London | United Kingdom |
23= | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
25 | Tsinghua University | China |
26 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
27 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
28= | Northwestern University | United States |
28= | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
30 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
31 | University of Toronto | Canada |
32 | McGill University | Canada |
33 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
34 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
35 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
36= | Kyoto University | Japan |
36= | Seoul National University | South Korea |
38= | Peking University | China |
38= | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
40 | Fudan University | China |
41= | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
41= | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
43 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France |
44 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
45 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
46 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
47= | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
47= | The University of Queensland | Australia |
49 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
50 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
51 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
52 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
53 | Brown University | United States |
54 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
55 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
57 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
58 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
59 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
60 | Monash University | Australia |
61 | University of Washington | United States |
62 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
63 | Osaka University | Japan |
64 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
65 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
66 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München | Germany |
67 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
68 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg | Germany |
69 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
70 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
71= | KU Leuven | Belgium |
71= | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
73= | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
73= | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
75 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
76= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
76= | Tohoku University | Japan |
78= | Durham University | United Kingdom |
78= | Lund University | Sweden |
80 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States |
81 | Boston University | United States |
82= | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
82= | The University of Auckland | New Zealand |
84= | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
84= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
86 | The Ohio State University | United States |
87 | Zhejiang University | China |
88 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland |
89 | Rice University | United States |
90= | University of Alberta | Canada |
90= | Korea University | South Korea |
92 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
93= | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
93= | The University of Western Australia | Australia |
95= | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
95= | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
97 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
98= | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
98= | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
100 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
101 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
102= | University of Helsinki | Finland |
102= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
104 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
105 | Purdue University | United States |
106 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
107 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
108 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
109= | Leiden University | Netherlands |
109= | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
109= | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
112 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
113 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
114= | Nanjing University | China |
114= | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
116= | Nagoya University | Japan |
116= | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
118 | University of California, Davis | United States |
119 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
120 | Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin | Germany |
121 | Universidade de S?o Paulo | Brazil |
122= | Hokkaido University | Japan |
122= | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico |
124 | Wageningen University | Netherlands |
125= | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany |
125= | Ghent University | Belgium |
127 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
128 | Kyushu University | Japan |
129 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
130 | Université de Montréal | Canada |
131 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France |
132 | University of Southern California | United States |
133 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
134 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States |
135= | University of York | United Kingdom |
135= | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
137= | Aalto University | Finland |
137= | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
137= | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile |
140 | McMaster University | Canada |
141 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
142= | University of Oslo | Norway |
142= | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
144 | Technische Universit?t Berlin (TU Berlin) | Germany |
145 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
146 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
147= | Emory University | United States |
147= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
149= | Michigan State University | United States |
149= | University of Basel | Switzerland |
151 | University of Otago | New Zealand |
152 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
153 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium |
154 | University of Vienna | Austria |
155 | Hanyang University | South Korea |
156 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain |
157 | école Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
158= | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
158= | The University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
160 | University of Bath | United Kingdom |
161= | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan |
161= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
163 | University of Minnesota | United States |
164= | Eberhard Karls Universit?t Tübingen | Germany |
164= | University of Bergen | Norway |
164= | University of California, Irvine | United States |
167 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
168 | University College Dublin | Ireland |
169 | Dartmouth College | United States |
170 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
171 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | Germany |
172 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | India |
173= | University of Virginia | United States |
173= | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia |
173= | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
176 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
177 | CentraleSupélec | France |
178 | University of Florida | United States |
179= | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | India |
179= | University of Twente | Netherlands |
181 | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
182= | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | Brazil |
182= | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
182= | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Belgium |
182= | Vienna University of Technology | Austria |
186 | University of Rochester | United States |
187 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain |
188= | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | Italy |
188= | University of Reading | United Kingdom |
190 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | India |
191 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
192= | Keio University | Japan |
192= | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy |
192= | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento | Italy |
195= | Stockholm University | Sweden |
195= | Technische Universit?t Dresden | Germany |
195= | Texas A&M University | United States |
195= | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain |
199 | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey | Mexico |
200 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
201 | Universidad de Chile | Chile |
202 | Queen's University Belfast | United Kingdom |
203 | Waseda University | Japan |
204 | Radboud University | Netherlands |
205= | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
205= | Universite libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
207= | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan |
207= | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) | United States |
209 | Arizona State University | United States |
210= | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
210= | The University of Western Ontario | Canada |
212 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
213 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
214 | University of Canterbury | New Zealand |
215 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
216 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
217 | University of Calgary | Canada |
218 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands |
219 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand |
220 | Sciences Po | France |
221 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia |
222 | National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) | Taiwan |
223 | Universit?t Hamburg | Germany |
224= | Queen's University at Kingston | Canada |
224= | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
224= | The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) | Australia |
227 | Georgetown University | United States |
228 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
229 | Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) | Malaysia |
230= | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) | Malaysia |
230= | The University of Arizona | United States |
232 | University of Wollongong | Australia |
233 | University Complutense Madrid | Spain |
234 | Loughborough University | United Kingdom |
235 | American University of Beirut (AUB) | Lebanon |
236= | Al-Farabi Kazakh National University | Kazakhstan |
236= | Université Grenoble-Alpes | France |
238 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
239 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t Bonn | Germany |
240= | Macquarie University | Australia |
240= | Saint Petersburg State University | Russia |
242 | Université Paris-Sud | France |
243= | Tufts University | United States |
243= | National University of Ireland Galway | Ireland |
245= | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand |
245= | Simon Fraser University | Canada |
247= | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | Australia |
247= | RMIT University | Australia |
249 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States |
250= | Novosibirsk State University | Russia |
250= | University of Tsukuba | Japan |
252 | University of Miami | United States |
253 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | Malaysia |
254= | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Colombia |
254= | Universit?t Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
256= | Beijing Normal University | China |
256= | Kyung Hee University | South Korea |
256= | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia |
259= | Royal Holloway University of London | United Kingdom |
259= | Universit?t Stuttgart | Germany |
259= | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | Norway |
262 | Curtin University | Australia |
263 | North Carolina State University | United States |
264= | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | India |
264= | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) | Taiwan |
264= | Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) | Malaysia |
267= | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
267= | King Abdulaziz University (KAU) | Saudi Arabia |
269 | Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne | France |
270= | Ecole des Ponts ParisTech | France |
270= | University of Navarra | Spain |
272= | Technische Universit?t Darmstadt | Germany |
272= | University of Surrey | United Kingdom |
274 | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom |
275 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain |
276 | University of Turku | Finland |
277= | Universitas Indonesia | Indonesia |
277= | University of Strathclyde | United Kingdom |
279= | Dalhousie University | Canada |
279= | University of South Australia | Australia |
281 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UCM) | Spain |
282 | Wuhan University | China |
283= | University College Cork | Ireland |
283= | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
283= | Rutgers University - New Brunswick | United States |
286 | Universit?t Innsbruck | Austria |
287= | Link?ping University | Sweden |
287= | Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg | Germany |
289= | National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan |
289= | University of Ottawa | Canada |
291 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University | Russia |
292 | University of Waikato | New Zealand |
293= | Deakin University | Australia |
293= | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) | India |
293= | Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) | France |
296= | SOAS University of London | United Kingdom |
296= | Università di Padova | Italy |
296= | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Spain |
299= | Ewha Womans University | South Korea |
299= | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong |
301= | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
301= | University of Porto | Portugal |
303 | Université de Strasbourg | France |
304 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States |
305= | Université Paris Diderot - Paris | France |
305= | University of Lisbon | Portugal |
307 | Politecnico di Torino | Italy |
308= | Birkbeck, University of London | United Kingdom |
308= | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | India |
308= | Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t Münster | Germany |
311 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
312 | Heriot-Watt University | United Kingdom |
313 | University of Tasmania | Australia |
314= | University of Tartu | Estonia |
314= | Charles University | Czech Republic |
316= | Massey University | New Zealand |
316= | Tongji University | China |
318 | University at Buffalo SUNY | United States |
319= | Lincoln University | New Zealand |
319= | Sun Yat-sen University | China |
319= | Université de Liège | Belgium |
322 | Hiroshima University | Japan |
323= | Tomsk State University | Russia |
323= | University of California, Riverside | United States |
325= | Griffith University | Australia |
325= | Harbin Institute of Technology | China |
325= | University of Milan | Italy |
325= | The Katz School at Yeshiva University | United States |
329 | National Yang Ming University | Taiwan |
330 | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan | France |
331= | Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) | Indonesia |
331= | Universidad Austral | Argentina |
331= | University of Cologne | Germany |
334= | Belarusian State University | Belarus |
334= | Mahidol University | Thailand |
336 | L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) | Kazakhstan |
337 | Universidad de Belgrano | Argentina |
338 | Umea University | Sweden |
339= | Boston College | United States |
339= | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) | South Korea |
341= | Universit?t Jena | Germany |
341= | University of Hawai'i at Ma?oa | United States |
343 | City, University of London | United Kingdom |
344= | Nankai University | China |
344= | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China |
346= | Northeastern University | United States |
346= | University of Victoria | Canada |
346= | Brunel University London | United Kingdom |
349= | Qatar University | Qatar |
349= | Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) | Brunei |
351 | Kobe University | Japan |
352= | Ben Gurion University of The Negev | Israel |
352= | George Washington University | United States |
352= | University of Essex | United Kingdom |
355= | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech) | Russia |
355= | Université Paris Dauphine | France |
357= | Tilburg University | Netherlands |
357= | University Ulm | Germany |
357= | University of Jyv?skyl? | Finland |
360 | La Trobe University | Australia |
361= | Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Portugal |
361= | Oxford Brookes University | United Kingdom |
361= | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
364= | Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires (UCA) | Argentina |
364= | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States |
364= | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa |
367= | University of Troms? The Arctic University of Norway | Norway |
367= | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States |
367= | James Cook University | Australia |
367= | Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) | Japan |
367= | University of the Philippines | Philippines |
372 | University of St.Gallen (HSG) | Switzerland |
373= | Aston University | United Kingdom |
373= | Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) | Russia |
373= | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) | Russia |
373= | Universitat Politècnica de València | Spain |
373= | University of Kent | United Kingdom |
378 | Laval University | Canada |
379 | Aalborg University | Denmark |
380 | Tampere University of Technology | Finland |
381 | Université de Montpellier | France |
382= | National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) | Russia |
382= | Stony Brook University, State University of New York | United States |
384 | University of Southern Denmark | Denmark |
385 | Universit?t Konstanz | Germany |
386= | National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University | Russia |
386= | University of Kansas | United States |
388= | National Sun Yat-sen University | Taiwan |
388= | Universit?t Mannheim | Germany |
390 | United Arab Emirates University | United Arab Emirates |
391= | Dublin City University | Ireland |
391= | National Central University | Taiwan |
391= | University of Utah | United States |
394 | University of Colorado, Denver | United States |
395= | The American University in Cairo | Egypt |
395= | Illinois Institute of Technology | United States |
397 | HUFS - Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies | South Korea |
398= | Goldsmiths, University of London | United Kingdom |
398= | Johannes Gutenberg Universit?t Mainz | Germany |
398= | Taipei Medical University | Taiwan |
401-410 | Leibniz Universit?t Hannover | Germany |
401-410 | National Technical University of Athens | Greece |
401-410 | Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University | Russia |
401-410 | Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum | Germany |
401-410 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | Colombia |
401-410 | Gadjah Mada University | Indonesia |
401-410 | University of Coimbra | Portugal |
401-410 | V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University | Ukraine |
401-410 | Vilnius University | Lithuania |
401-410 | Washington State University | United States |
411-420 | American University of Sharjah | United Arab Emirates |
411-420 | Arabian Gulf University | Bahrain |
411-420 | Brandeis University | United States |
411-420 | Kazakh National Research Technical University after K.I.Satpayev | Kazakhstan |
411-420 | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | Ukraine |
411-420 | Universidad de Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
411-420 | Aix-Marseille University | France |
411-420 | University of Oulu | Finland |
411-420 | University of Warsaw | Poland |
411-420 | Wake Forest University | United States |
421-430 | Bilkent University | Turkey |
421-430 | Hitotsubashi University | Japan |
421-430 | Shanghai University | China |
421-430 | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia |
421-430 | The University of Georgia | United States |
421-430 | University of Pisa | Italy |
421-430 | University of Connecticut | United States |
421-430 | University of Delaware | United States |
421-430 | University of Iowa | United States |
421-430 | University of Texas Dallas | United States |
431-440 | Bond University | Australia |
431-440 | Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel | Germany |
431-440 | Concordia University | Canada |
431-440 | Florida State University | United States |
431-440 | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) | India |
431-440 | Koc University | Turkey |
431-440 | National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST) Islamabad | Pakistan |
431-440 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | Peru |
431-440 | Swansea University | United Kingdom |
431-440 | Universidad de Palermo (UP) | Argentina |
431-440 | Xiamen University | China |
441-450 | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) | New Zealand |
441-450 | Bangor University | United Kingdom |
441-450 | Kazan (Volga region) Federal University | Russia |
441-450 | Oregon State University | United States |
441-450 | Singapore Management University | Singapore |
441-450 | Sogang University | South Korea |
441-450 | University of Trento | Italy |
441-450 | Université Paris Descartes | France |
441-450 | York University | Canada |
451-460 | Beijing Institute of Technology | China |
451-460 | Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA) | France |
451-460 | Khalifa University | United Arab Emirates |
451-460 | Sultan Qaboos University | Oman |
451-460 | Tulane University | United States |
451-460 | Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) | Chile |
451-460 | University of Eastern Finland | Finland |
451-460 | University of Saskatchewan | Canada |
451-460 | University of Stirling | United Kingdom |
451-460 | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | United States |
461-470 | Jagiellonian University | Poland |
461-470 | Martin-Luther-Universit?t Halle-Wittenberg | Germany |
461-470 | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | Colombia |
461-470 | Sabanci University | Turkey |
461-470 | Universidad de Zaragoza | Spain |
461-470 | University of Florence | Italy |
461-470 | University of Rome University of Rome "Tor Vergata" | Italy |
461-470 | Universit?t Potsdam | Germany |
461-470 | University of New Mexico | United States |
461-470 | Wayne State University | United States |
471-480 | American University | United States |
471-480 | Dongguk University | South Korea |
471-480 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China |
471-480 | Iowa State University | United States |
471-480 | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria |
471-480 | Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz | Austria |
471-480 | King Khalid University | Saudi Arabia |
471-480 | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
471-480 | Sharif University of Technology | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
471-480 | Tianjin University | China |
481-490 | Aberystwyth University | United Kingdom |
481-490 | Cairo University | Egypt |
481-490 | Chang Gung University | Taiwan |
481-490 | Colorado State University | United States |
481-490 | Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg | Germany |
481-490 | Renmin (People's) University of China | China |
481-490 | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Italy |
481-490 | University of Naples - Federico II | Italy |
481-490 | Universit?t Bremen | Germany |
481-490 | University of Delhi | India |
481-490 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | United States |
491-500 | Bogazi?i üniversitesi | Turkey |
491-500 | Czech Technical University in Prague | Czech Republic |
491-500 | Jilin University | China |
491-500 | Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay | Kazakhstan |
491-500 | Politécnica de Madrid | Spain |
491-500 | Pusan National University | South Korea |
491-500 | UNESP | Brazil |
491-500 | Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) | Lebanon |
491-500 | University of Guelph | Canada |
491-500 | Ural Federal University | Russia |