World's Best Universities
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #173 | 52.6 | 49.3 | 66.1 | 28.2 | 56.2 | 38 | 76.9 | |
| #256 |
University of Utah
United States |
41.6 | 23.5 | 22.3 | 57.1 | 28.4 | 25.5 | 77 |
| #21 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
89.2 | 99.1 | 96.8 | 72.1 | 89.6 | 93.8 | 77.1 |
| #28 |
University of Bristol
United Kingdom |
85.4 | 91 | 96 | 74.8 | 85.8 | 75.6 | 77.3 |
| #97 | 66.8 | 57.5 | 37.4 | 99.2 | 67.7 | 13.4 | 77.4 | |
| #322 | 36.3 | 40.5 | 27.5 | 6.7 | 2.5 | 77.6 | ||
| #54 |
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom |
76.3 | 82.4 | 70.7 | 60.3 | 78.5 | 76.7 | 78.3 |
| #220 | 47 | 44.8 | 24.1 | 38.6 | 49.3 | 6.8 | 78.5 | |
| #157 |
University of Colorado at Boulder
United States |
55.5 | 48.7 | 61.4 | 60 | 21.3 | 10.8 | 78.5 |
| #107 |
Maastricht University
Netherlands |
64.4 | 39.1 | 69.5 | 78.5 | 91.8 | 99.9 | 79.2 |
| #29 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
85.1 | 79.1 | 75.8 | 95.1 | 100 | 100 | 79.9 |
| #19 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
89.6 | 99.9 | 94.3 | 73.8 | 96.1 | 74.8 | 80.2 |
| #365 |
Colorado State University
United States |
33.2 | 24.7 | 36.8 | 11.9 | 6.4 | 9.7 | 80.7 |
| #87 |
Freie Universität Berlin
Germany |
68.6 | 91 | 44.6 | 29.4 | 43.7 | 56 | 80.7 |
| #214 |
University of Calgary
Canada |
47.8 | 49.9 | 40.7 | 15.2 | 33 | 48.3 | 80.9 |
| #265 | 41.1 | 34.8 | 24.2 | 21 | 56.6 | 22.3 | 81 | |
| #101 |
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
United States |
65.7 | 77.3 | 83.3 | 33.8 | 17.1 | 37.3 | 81.5 |
| #145 |
University of Bergen
Norway |
57 | 47.7 | 29.1 | 59.7 | 87.9 | 36.4 | 81.5 |
| #34 | 83.3 | 90.8 | 66.9 | 92.4 | 26.2 | 66.2 | 81.6 | |
| #82 |
KU Leuven
Belgium |
69.7 | 88.5 | 70.1 | 22.7 | 71 | 43.5 | 81.7 |
| #180 |
University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
United States |
51.6 | 45.4 | 33.3 | 53.8 | 26.2 | 19.4 | 82.5 |
| #303 |
University of California, Riverside
United States |
38.6 | 30 | 12.9 | 19.1 | 52.6 | 35.2 | 83.6 |
| #152 |
McMaster University
Canada |
56.1 | 57.2 | 35.4 | 30.5 | 67.2 | 54.2 | 84.7 |
| #81 |
Uppsala University
Sweden |
69.8 | 84.3 | 51.5 | 42.7 | 52.7 | 39.9 | 85 |
| #313 |
University at Buffalo SUNY
United States |
38.1 | 29.9 | 8.2 | 18.7 | 9.2 | 68.3 | 86.4 |













