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Top 400

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities. See the methodology.

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Faculty-Student Ratio Score	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Citations per Faculty Score
#3	Harvard University United States	99.2	100	100	98.6	90	78.4	100
#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	100	100	100	99.9	86.4	96.5	99.3
#25	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	87.2	100	99.4	81.4	100	98.2	51.1
#9	Princeton University United States	95.4	100	88.5	90.7	85.5	63.5	99.8
#15	Stanford University United States	91.7	100	100	72.4	41.9	83.5	100
#30	The University of Tokyo Japan	85	100	97.6	89.3	11.1	25.8	73.1
#22	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	88.1	100	100	47	86.1	78.8	97.9
#31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	84.6	100	96	62.3	1.6	34.4	99.5
#2	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	99.8	100	100	98.3	98.2	96	97
#5	University of Oxford United Kingdom	98.6	100	100	100	98	95.8	89.4
#7	Yale University United States	97.5	100	100	100	92.7	63.9	93.3
#11	Columbia University United States	94.7	99.9	100	97.2	16.2	84.9	96.3
#8	University of Chicago United States	96.3	99.9	96	95.6	68.9	77.8	96.4
#19	University of Toronto Canada	89.6	99.9	94.3	73.8	96.1	74.8	80.2
#6	Imperial College London United Kingdom	98.3	99.8	100	99.8	99.8	99.6	87.3
#35	Kyoto University Japan	83.3	99.8	81.1	92.6	15.5	21.9	70
#36	University of Melbourne Australia	83.2	99.8	100	46.8	68.9	92.3	74.9
#17	University of Michigan United States	91.2	99.8	96.1	92	50.6	46.5	87.3
#24	Australian National University (ANU) Australia	87.6	99.7	82.5	79.6	100	96.3	64.3
#14	Cornell University United States	92.1	99.7	96.4	73.9	74.3	67.4	98.8
#44	Peking University China	78.8	99.7	96.6	82.6	55.7	35	36.8
#4	UCL (University College London) United Kingdom	98.7	99.6	95.6	98.4	96.3	99.9	94
#13	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	92.8	99.3	94	67	100	98.7	97.2
#23	University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong	87.9	99.3	83.8	94.2	100	99.1	50.5
#39	University of Sydney Australia	81.3	99.3	93.5	50.4	99.7	91.3	58.9

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World's Best Universities Top 400

World's Best Universities
Top 400