Best universities in the world top 300
Based on U.S.News Best Global Universities Rankings 2018
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| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States |
| 4 | University of California--Berkeley | United States |
| 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Columbia University | United States |
| 9 | Princeton University | United States |
| 10= | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 10= | University of Washington | United States |
| 10= | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | University of California--Los Angeles | United States |
| 14 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 15 | University of California--San Francisco | United States |
| 16 | University of California--San Diego | United States |
| 17= | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 17= | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | United States |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 20 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 21 | Duke University | United States |
| 22 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 23 | Cornell University | United States |
| 24 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 25 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 26 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 27 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 28= | New York University | United States |
| 28= | University of California--Santa Barbara | United States |
| 30 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 31 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | United States |
| 32= | University of Texas--Austin | United States |
| 32= | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 34= | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | United States |
| 34= | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 36 | école Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 37 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 38 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France |
| 39 | Boston University | United States |
| 40 | University of Munich | Germany |
| 41 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 42 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | United States |
| 43 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 44 | University of Colorado--Boulder | United States |
| 45 | University of Queensland Australia | Australia |
| 46 | Ohio State University--Columbus | United States |
| 47 | University of California--Santa Cruz | United States |
| 48 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 49 | McGill University | Canada |
| 50 | University of Maryland--College Park | United States |
| 51 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 52= | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 52= | Rockefeller University | United States |
| 52= | University of California--Davis | United States |
| 55= | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 55= | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 57= | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 57= | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 59= | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 59= | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 59= | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 62 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 63 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium |
| 64 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 65 | Peking University | China |
| 66 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | United States |
| 67 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 68 | Monash University | Australia |
| 69= | Australian National University | Australia |
| 69= | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 71= | Emory University | United States |
| 71= | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 73= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 73= | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 75= | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom |
| 75= | University of California--Irvine | United States |
| 77= | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 77= | University of Arizona | United States |
| 79 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 80 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 81= | Michigan State University | United States |
| 81= | Rice University | United States |
| 81= | University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 81= | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 85= | Lund University | Sweden |
| 85= | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 87 | Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin | Germany |
| 88= | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 88= | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 88= | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 88= | Wageningen University and Research Center | Netherlands |
| 92 | Brown University | United States |
| 93 | Université Paris-Sud | France |
| 94 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 95= | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 95= | University of Florida | United States |
| 97= | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick | United States |
| 97= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 99 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 100 | University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 | France |
| 101 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
| 102 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 103 | Purdue University--West Lafayette | United States |
| 104= | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 104= | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 104= | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
| 107= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 107= | University of Virginia | United States |
| 109 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 110 | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia |
| 111 | University of Rochester | United States |
| 112 | Freie Universit?t Berlin | Germany |
| 113 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 114 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 115 | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | United States |
| 116= | Queen Mary, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 116= | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 118 | Texas A&M University--College Station | United States |
| 119 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 120 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 121 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center--Dallas | United States |
| 122 | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 123 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 124= | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
| 124= | University Catholique of Louvain | Belgium |
| 126 | Baylor College of Medicine | United States |
| 127 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst | United States |
| 128 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 129= | Indiana University--Bloomington | United States |
| 129= | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 129= | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 129= | University of Montreal | Canada |
| 129= | University of Utah | United States |
| 134= | Arizona State University--Tempe | United States |
| 134= | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 134= | University of Hamburg | Germany |
| 134= | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 138= | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 138= | University of Bologna | Italy |
| 140 | University of Padua | Italy |
| 141 | University of California--Riverside | United States |
| 142 | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
| 143= | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 143= | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 145 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 146= | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
| 146= | Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | France |
| 148= | Chinese University Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 148= | Fudan University | China |
| 148= | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 148= | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 152 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 153= | Universidade de S?o Paulo | Brazil |
| 153= | University of Iowa | United States |
| 155 | Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen | Germany |
| 156= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 156= | Stony Brook University--SUNY | United States |
| 158 | University of Milan | Italy |
| 159= | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 159= | University of Aix-Marseille | France |
| 159= | Zhejiang University | China |
| 162 | University of Alabama--Birmingham | United States |
| 163 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| 164= | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 164= | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 166 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| 167= | Charite - Medical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 167= | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 167= | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 167= | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 171= | Oregon Health & Science University | United States |
| 171= | University of Miami | United States |
| 173= | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 173= | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| 173= | Tufts University | United States |
| 176= | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
| 176= | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain |
| 176= | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| 179 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 180 | University of Bergen | Norway |
| 181= | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 181= | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 183= | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology | Saudi Arabia |
| 183= | Technical University of Dresden | Germany |
| 183= | University of Calgary | Canada |
| 186 | City University Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 187= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 187= | University of Strasbourg | France |
| 187= | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 190= | Bo?azi?i University | Turkey |
| 190= | Florida State University | United States |
| 190= | Nanjing University | China |
| 190= | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| 194= | Osaka University | Japan |
| 194= | Paris Descartes University-Paris V | France |
| 196= | Charles University in Prague | Czech Republic |
| 196= | University of Münster | Germany |
| 198= | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea |
| 198= | University of Illinois--Chicago | United States |
| 200= | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea |
| 200= | University of Cincinnati | United States |
| 200= | University of Tennessee | United States |
| 203 | University of Maryland--Baltimore | United States |
| 204= | Iowa State University | United States |
| 204= | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | Germany |
| 204= | Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 204= | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 208= | Medical University of Vienna | Austria |
| 208= | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| 210= | école Polytechnique | France |
| 210= | University of Montpellier | France |
| 210= | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
| 213= | Autonomous University of Madrid | Spain |
| 213= | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 215 | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
| 216 | University of Witwatersrand | South Africa |
| 217= | University of Erlangen Nuremberg | Germany |
| 217= | University of Florence | Italy |
| 217= | University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| 217= | University of Otago | New Zealand |
| 217= | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 222= | North Carolina State University--Raleigh | United States |
| 222= | University of Trieste | Italy |
| 224= | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 224= | University of Turin | Italy |
| 226 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy |
| 227 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| 228= | Northeastern University | United States |
| 228= | University of Pisa | Italy |
| 230 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 231 | University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| 232 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 233 | Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 | France |
| 234= | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 234= | Macquarie University | Australia |
| 234= | University of Texas--Dallas | United States |
| 237= | Sun Yat-sen University | China |
| 237= | University of New Mexico | United States |
| 239= | école Normale Superieure, Paris | France |
| 239= | Oregon State University | United States |
| 239= | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| 239= | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 243 | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 244= | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 244= | University of Pavia | Italy |
| 246 | University of St. Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 247= | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 247= | University at Buffalo--SUNY | United States |
| 249 | University of Kansas | United States |
| 250= | Colorado State University | United States |
| 250= | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 250= | Virginia Tech | United States |
| 253= | Brandeis University | United States |
| 253= | James Cook University | Finland |
| 255= | Aalto University | Finland |
| 255= | Free University of Brussels | Belgium |
| 257= | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| 257= | University of Kiel | Germany |
| 257= | Yeshiva University | United States |
| 260= | George Washington University | United States |
| 260= | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| 260= | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 260= | University of Valencia | Spain |
| 264 | Curtin University of Technology | Australia |
| 265= | Griffith University | Australia |
| 265= | University of Georgia | United States |
| 267= | Deakin University | Australia |
| 267= | M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
| 267= | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom |
| 267= | University of Oregon | United States |
| 271 | Western University | Canada |
| 272 | University of Nebraska--Lincoln | United States |
| 273 | University of Victoria | Canada |
| 274= | Korea University | South Korea |
| 274= | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| 274= | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| 274= | Ume? University | Sweden |
| 274= | University of Rome Tor Vergata | Italy |
| 279= | Georgetown University | United States |
| 279= | University of Innsbruck | Austria |
| 281 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 282= | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China |
| 282= | International School for Advanced Studies | Italy |
| 282= | Simon Fraser University | Canada |
| 285 | University of Ulm | Germany |
| 286= | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece |
| 286= | Polytechnic University of Milan | Italy |
| 286= | University of South Florida | United States |
| 289 | University of Duisburg-Essen | Germany |
| 290= | Aalborg University | Denmark |
| 290= | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 290= | Queen's University Belfast | United Kingdom |
| 290= | University of Milan - Bicocca | Italy |
| 290= | University of Newcastle | Australia |
| 290= | University of Wollongong | Australia |
| 296= | Laval University | Canada |
| 296= | Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea |
| 296= | Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) | United Kingdom |
| 296= | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 296= | University of Turku | Finland |