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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #49 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
77.4 | 86 | 81 | 55.4 | 17.7 | 97.1 | 86.5 |
| #6 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
98.3 | 99.8 | 100 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.6 | 87.3 |
| #17 |
University of Michigan
United States |
91.2 | 99.8 | 96.1 | 92 | 50.6 | 46.5 | 87.3 |
| #98 |
University of Pittsburgh
United States |
66.1 | 53.4 | 26.3 | 93.3 | 68.6 | 36.4 | 87.8 |
| #85 |
Utrecht University
Netherlands |
68.7 | 81.4 | 48.4 | 45.8 | 56.1 | 18.9 | 88.2 |
| #241 |
Yeshiva University
United States |
43.1 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 97.4 | 1.8 | 48.7 | 89 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
98.6 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 95.8 | 89.4 |
| #296 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States |
39.1 | 21.4 | 25.3 | 34.4 | 11.5 | 44.1 | 89.6 |
| #56 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
75.5 | 97.7 | 66.7 | 23.5 | 56.2 | 68.8 | 90 |
| #115 |
University of Lausanne
Switzerland |
62.4 | 48 | 26.8 | 64.3 | 92.4 | 87.2 | 90 |
| #311 |
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States |
38.1 | 39.1 | 18.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 90.1 | |
| #57 |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States |
75.4 | 80.9 | 63.2 | 75.8 | 30.1 | 22.2 | 90.7 |
| #164 |
Case Western Reserve University
United States |
53.8 | 27.4 | 7.1 | 95.9 | 25.1 | 59.4 | 91 |
| #263 |
Universität Mannheim
Germany |
41.1 | 25.4 | 75 | 12.5 | 3 | 40.3 | 91.9 |
| #45 | 78.6 | 99.1 | 77.8 | 25.9 | 61.4 | 73.2 | 92.1 | |
| #12 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
94.5 | 98.5 | 96.2 | 99.6 | 55.7 | 66.8 | 92.4 |
| #120 |
Rice University
United States |
60.8 | 46.5 | 26.3 | 71.5 | 48.3 | 71.6 | 93.1 |
| #7 |
Yale University
United States |
97.5 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 92.7 | 63.9 | 93.3 |
| #99 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands |
65.9 | 50.5 | 82.2 | 58.9 | 69.7 | 56 | 93.6 |
| #4 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
98.7 | 99.6 | 95.6 | 98.4 | 96.3 | 99.9 | 94 |
| #181 |
Tufts University
United States |
51.5 | 27.4 | 23.6 | 60.5 | 92.9 | 34.9 | 96 |
| #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 |
| #100 |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
United States |
65.9 | 74.6 | 38 | 35.4 | 60 | 42.5 | 96.7 |
| #84 |
Washington University in St. Louis
United States |
69.1 | 60.4 | 22 | 99.7 | 3.6 | 51.9 | 96.8 |