| THE World University Rankings 2018 Top 200 |
| Rank | University | Country/Region |
| 1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 3= | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3= | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | Harvard University | United States |
| 7 | Princeton University | United States |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10= | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 10= | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 14 | Columbia University | United States |
| 15 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 16 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Duke University | United States |
| 18 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 19 | Cornell University | United States |
| 20 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 21 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 22= | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 22= | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 25= | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 25= | University of Washington | United States |
| 27= | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 27= | New York University | United States |
| 27= | Peking University | China |
| 30 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 31 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 32 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 34 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 34 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 36 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 37 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 38= | école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 38= | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 40 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 41 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 42 | McGill University | Canada |
| 43 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 44 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 45 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 46 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 47 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 48 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 49 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 50= | Brown University | United States |
| 50= | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 52 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 53 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 54= | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 54= | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 56= | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 56= | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 58 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 59 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 60 | Purdue University | United States |
| 61 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 62 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 63 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 64 | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands |
| 65 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 66 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 67 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 68 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 69 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 70= | Boston University | United States |
| 70= | Ohio State University | United States |
| 72= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 72= | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 74= | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 74= | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 76 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 77 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 78 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 79 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 80= | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 80= | Monash University | Australia |
| 82 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 83= | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 83= | Michigan State University | United States |
| 85 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 86= | Rice University | United States |
| 86= | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 88 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 89 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 90 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 91 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 92 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 93 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 94 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 95= | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 95= | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 97 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Emory University | United States |
| 99 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 100= | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 100= | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 100= | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 103 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 104 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 105= | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 105= | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 107 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 108 | University of Montreal | Canada |
| 109= | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 109= | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 111= | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| 111= | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 113= | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
| 113= | University of Virginia | United States |
| 115 | école Polytechnique | France |
| 116 | Fudan University | China |
| 117= | Indiana University | United States |
| 117= | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| 119= | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 119= | Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 121 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 122 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
| 123= | Georgetown University | United States |
| 123= | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France |
| 125 | University of Mannheim | Germany |
| 126= | Arizona State University | United States |
| 126= | Charité - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin | Germany |
| 126= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 129 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
| 130= | University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| 130= | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 132 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 133 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 134= | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 134= | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 136 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 137= | Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea |
| 137= | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 139 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 140 | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain |
| 141= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 141= | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 143= | University of Florida | United States |
| 143= | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 145 | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 146 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 147= | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 147= | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 147= | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
| 150= | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 150= | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 152 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 153= | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 153= | University of Rochester | United States |
| 155= | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Italy |
| 155= | TU Dresden | Germany |
| 155= | Ulm University | Germany |
| 158 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
| 159= | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 159= | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 161 | University of Arizona | United States |
| 162= | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
| 162= | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 162= | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| 165= | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 165= | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 165= | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 168 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States |
| 169= | Nanjing University | China |
| 169= | Tufts University | United States |
| 171 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 172 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States |
| 173= | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 173= | University of Münster | Germany |
| 175= | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| 175= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 177= | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 177= | Zhejiang University | China |
| 179= | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| 179= | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 181 | Paris-Sud University | France |
| 182= | école Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
| 182= | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 184 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy |
| 185 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 186 | University of Miami | United States |
| 187 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| 188= | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom |
| 188= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 190 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 191 | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| 192 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 193 | Northeastern University | United States |
| 194 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
| 195 | Tilburg University | Netherlands |
| 196 | Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 | France |
| 197 | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 198= | University of California, Riverside | United States |
| 198= | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| 198= | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |