| U.S.News Best Global Universities Rankings 2018 Top200 |
| Rank | University | Location | Global score |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 97.3 |
| 3 | Stanford University | United States | 92.3 |
| 4 | University of California--Berkeley | United States | 90.8 |
| 5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 87.3 |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 85.7 |
| 7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 85.3 |
| 8 | Columbia University | United States | 84.6 |
| 9 | Princeton University | United States | 84.2 |
| 10= | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 83.4 |
| 10= | University of Washington | United States | 83.4 |
| 10= | Yale University | United States | 83.4 |
| 13 | University of California--Los Angeles | United States | 83.2 |
| 14 | University of Chicago | United States | 82.9 |
| 15 | University of California--San Francisco | United States | 82.2 |
| 16 | University of California--San Diego | United States | 81.7 |
| 17= | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 81.3 |
| 17= | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | United States | 81.3 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 81.2 |
| 20 | University of Toronto | Canada | 80.7 |
| 21 | Duke University | United States | 80.4 |
| 22 | University College London | United Kingdom | 80.2 |
| 23 | Cornell University | United States | 79.6 |
| 24 | Northwestern University | United States | 77.4 |
| 25 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | 77.2 |
| 26 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 75.8 |
| 27 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 75.7 |
| 28= | New York University | United States | 75.6 |
| 28= | University of California--Santa Barbara | United States | 75.6 |
| 30 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 75.3 |
| 31 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | United States | 74.9 |
| 32= | University of Texas--Austin | United States | 74.7 |
| 32= | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 74.7 |
| 34= | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | United States | 74.5 |
| 34= | University of Sydney | Australia | 74.5 |
| 36 | école Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne | Switzerland | 74.2 |
| 37 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 74.1 |
| 38 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France | 74 |
| 39 | Boston University | United States | 73.9 |
| 40 | University of Munich | Germany | 73.8 |
| 41 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 73.4 |
| 42 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | United States | 73.3 |
| 43 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 73.2 |
| 44 | University of Colorado--Boulder | United States | 73 |
| 45 | University of Queensland Australia | Australia | 72.9 |
| 46 | Ohio State University--Columbus | United States | 72.6 |
| 47 | University of California--Santa Cruz | United States | 72.5 |
| 48 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 72.4 |
| 49 | McGill University | Canada | 72.3 |
| 50 | University of Maryland--College Park | United States | 71.8 |
| 51 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | United States | 71.6 |
| 52= | Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 71.5 |
| 52= | Rockefeller University | United States | 71.5 |
| 52= | University of California--Davis | United States | 71.5 |
| 55= | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 71.4 |
| 55= | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 71.4 |
| 57= | University of Tokyo | Japan | 71.3 |
| 57= | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 71.3 |
| 59= | Heidelberg University | Germany | 71.2 |
| 59= | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 71.2 |
| 59= | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 71.2 |
| 62 | University of Southern California | United States | 71.1 |
| 63 | Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium | 71 |
| 64 | Tsinghua University | China | 70.5 |
| 65 | Peking University | China | 70.4 |
| 66 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | United States | 70.2 |
| 67 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 69.9 |
| 68 | Monash University | Australia | 69.6 |
| 69= | Australian National University | Australia | 69.5 |
| 69= | University of New South Wales | Australia | 69.5 |
| 71= | Emory University | United States | 69.4 |
| 71= | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 69.4 |
| 73= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 69.3 |
| 73= | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 69.3 |
| 75= | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | 69.1 |
| 75= | University of California--Irvine | United States | 69.1 |
| 77= | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 68.7 |
| 77= | University of Arizona | United States | 68.7 |
| 79 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 68.5 |
| 80 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 67.9 |
| 81= | Michigan State University | United States | 67.5 |
| 81= | Rice University | United States | 67.5 |
| 81= | University of Barcelona | Spain | 67.5 |
| 81= | University of Helsinki | Finland | 67.5 |
| 85= | Lund University | Sweden | 67.4 |
| 85= | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 67.4 |
| 87 | Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin | Germany | 67.2 |
| 88= | Ghent University | Belgium | 67.1 |
| 88= | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 67.1 |
| 88= | University of Western Australia | Australia | 67.1 |
| 88= | Wageningen University and Research Center | Netherlands | 67.1 |
| 92 | Brown University | United States | 66.8 |
| 93 | Université Paris-Sud | France | 66.7 |
| 94 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 66.5 |
| 95= | Aarhus University | Denmark | 66.3 |
| 95= | University of Florida | United States | 66.3 |
| 97= | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick | United States | 66.2 |
| 97= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 66.2 |
| 99 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 66.1 |
| 100 | University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 | France | 66 |
| 101 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 65.9 |
| 102 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 65.6 |
| 103 | Purdue University--West Lafayette | United States | 65.5 |
| 104= | University of Bonn | Germany | 65.4 |
| 104= | University of Oslo | Norway | 65.4 |
| 104= | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel | 65.4 |
| 107= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 65.3 |
| 107= | University of Virginia | United States | 65.3 |
| 109 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 65.2 |
| 110 | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | 64.9 |
| 111 | University of Rochester | United States | 64.8 |
| 112 | Freie Universit?t Berlin | Germany | 64.5 |
| 113 | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 64.4 |
| 114 | Kyoto University | Japan | 64.3 |
| 115 | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | United States | 64.2 |
| 116= | Queen Mary, University of London | United Kingdom | 64 |
| 116= | University of Bern | Switzerland | 64 |
| 118 | Texas A&M University--College Station | United States | 63.8 |
| 119 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 63.7 |
| 120 | University of Basel | Switzerland | 63.6 |
| 121 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center--Dallas | United States | 63.5 |
| 122 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 63.3 |
| 123 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 63.2 |
| 124= | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy | 63 |
| 124= | University Catholique of Louvain | Belgium | 63 |
| 126 | Baylor College of Medicine | United States | 62.9 |
| 127 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst | United States | 62.9 |
| 128 | McMaster University | Canada | 62.8 |
| 129= | Indiana University--Bloomington | United States | 62.7 |
| 129= | Stockholm University | Sweden | 62.7 |
| 129= | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | 62.7 |
| 129= | University of Montreal | Canada | 62.7 |
| 129= | University of Utah | United States | 62.7 |
| 134= | Arizona State University--Tempe | United States | 62.6 |
| 134= | University of Alberta | Canada | 62.6 |
| 134= | University of Hamburg | Germany | 62.6 |
| 134= | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 62.6 |
| 138= | University of Auckland | New Zealand | 62.5 |
| 138= | University of Bologna | Italy | 62.5 |
| 140 | University of Padua | Italy | 62.4 |
| 141 | University of California--Riverside | United States | 62.3 |
| 142 | University of G?ttingen | Germany | 62.2 |
| 143= | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 62 |
| 143= | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 62 |
| 145 | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 61.9 |
| 146= | Case Western Reserve University | United States | 61.7 |
| 146= | Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | France | 61.7 |
| 148= | Chinese University Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 61.6 |
| 148= | Fudan University | China | 61.6 |
| 148= | University of Freiburg | Germany | 61.6 |
| 148= | University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 61.6 |
| 152 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 61.5 |
| 153= | Universidade de S?o Paulo | Brazil | 61.4 |
| 153= | University of Iowa | United States | 61.4 |
| 155 | Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen | Germany | 61.3 |
| 156= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 61.1 |
| 156= | Stony Brook University--SUNY | United States | 61.1 |
| 158 | University of Milan | Italy | 61 |
| 159= | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 60.8 |
| 159= | University of Aix-Marseille | France | 60.8 |
| 159= | Zhejiang University | China | 60.8 |
| 162 | University of Alabama--Birmingham | United States | 60.7 |
| 163 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 60.6 |
| 164= | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain | 60.4 |
| 164= | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 60.4 |
| 166 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 60.3 |
| 167= | Charite - Medical University of Berlin | Germany | 60.1 |
| 167= | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 60.1 |
| 167= | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 60.1 |
| 167= | RWTH Aachen University | Germany | 60.1 |
| 171= | Oregon Health & Science University | United States | 59.7 |
| 171= | University of Miami | United States | 59.7 |
| 173= | Durham University | United Kingdom | 59.6 |
| 173= | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 59.6 |
| 173= | Tufts University | United States | 59.6 |
| 176= | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 59.5 |
| 176= | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain | 59.5 |
| 176= | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 59.5 |
| 179 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland | 59.4 |
| 180 | University of Bergen | Norway | 59.2 |
| 181= | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 59.1 |
| 181= | University of Notre Dame | United States | 59.1 |
| 183= | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology | Saudi Arabia | 58.7 |
| 183= | Technical University of Dresden | Germany | 58.7 |
| 183= | University of Calgary | Canada | 58.7 |
| 186 | City University Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 58.6 |
| 187= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 58.5 |
| 187= | University of Strasbourg | France | 58.5 |
| 187= | University of Vienna | Austria | 58.5 |
| 190= | Bo?azi?i University | Turkey | 58.3 |
| 190= | Florida State University | United States | 58.3 |
| 190= | Nanjing University | China | 58.3 |
| 190= | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | 58.3 |
| 194= | Osaka University | Japan | 58.2 |
| 194= | Paris Descartes University-Paris V | France | 58.2 |
| 196= | Charles University in Prague | Czech Republic | 58.1 |
| 196= | University of Münster | Germany | 58.1 |
| 198= | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 58 |
| 198= | University of Illinois--Chicago | United States | 58 |
| 200= | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea | 57.9 |
| 200= | University of Cincinnati | United States | 57.9 |
| 200= | University of Tennessee | United States | 57.9 |