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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #20 |
Duke University
United States |
89.5 | 95.1 | 81.9 | 99.7 | 16.4 | 44.5 | 96.9 |
| #2 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
99.8 | 100 | 100 | 98.3 | 98.2 | 96 | 97 |
| #13 | 92.8 | 99.3 | 94 | 67 | 100 | 98.7 | 97.2 | |
| #113 |
Dartmouth College
United States |
63.5 | 41.3 | 67.3 | 85.6 | 10.6 | 49.8 | 97.3 |
| #74 |
University of Geneva
Switzerland |
70.6 | 65.7 | 23.7 | 58.9 | 100 | 99.2 | 97.5 |
| #104 |
University of Minnesota
United States |
64.9 | 82.9 | 41.8 | 29.9 | 7.2 | 20.5 | 97.5 |
| #155 |
University of California, Irvine
United States |
55.7 | 61.8 | 25.8 | 25.9 | 33.9 | 27.8 | 97.6 |
| #42 |
Brown University
United States |
79.5 | 81.5 | 68.8 | 76.7 | 32 | 54.7 | 97.8 |
| #27 |
Northwestern University
United States |
85.4 | 90.7 | 88.6 | 82.3 | 11.9 | 55.9 | 97.9 |
| #22 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
88.1 | 100 | 100 | 47 | 86.1 | 78.8 | 97.9 |
| #75 |
Leiden University
Netherlands |
70.5 | 83.8 | 47.2 | 33.3 | 80.4 | 24.1 | 98.3 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
92.1 | 99.7 | 96.4 | 73.9 | 74.3 | 67.4 | 98.8 |
| #122 |
Emory University
United States |
60.4 | 38.7 | 40.4 | 86.8 | 18.1 | 45.7 | 98.8 |
| #16 |
Johns Hopkins University
United States |
91.2 | 94.6 | 60.2 | 100 | 56.8 | 74.7 | 99.1 |
| #209 |
Tel Aviv University
Israel |
48.2 | 51.4 | 24.9 | 14.5 | 30.8 | 8.2 | 99.1 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
100 | 100 | 100 | 99.9 | 86.4 | 96.5 | 99.3 |
| #88 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
68.4 | 70.7 | 76.9 | 19.3 | 73.7 | 85.9 | 99.4 |
| #31 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
84.6 | 100 | 96 | 62.3 | 1.6 | 34.4 | 99.5 |
| #59 |
University of Washington
United States |
73.7 | 93.6 | 47.4 | 46.9 | 8.8 | 21 | 99.5 |
| #9 |
Princeton University
United States |
95.4 | 100 | 88.5 | 90.7 | 85.5 | 63.5 | 99.8 |
| #118 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
61.3 | 76.6 | 27.2 | 14.5 | 60.9 | 29.1 | 99.8 |
| #10 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
95.1 | 99 | 51.3 | 100 | 96 | 91.1 | 100 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.2 | 100 | 100 | 98.6 | 90 | 78.4 | 100 |
| #15 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.7 | 100 | 100 | 72.4 | 41.9 | 83.5 | 100 |
| #70 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
70.9 | 97.5 | 35.7 | 31.7 | 3 | 23.1 | 100 |