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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #84 |
Washington University in St. Louis
United States |
69.1 | 60.4 | 22 | 99.7 | 3.6 | 51.9 | 96.8 |
| #100 |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
United States |
65.9 | 74.6 | 38 | 35.4 | 60 | 42.5 | 96.7 |
| #8 |
University of Chicago
United States |
96.3 | 99.9 | 96 | 95.6 | 68.9 | 77.8 | 96.4 |
| #11 |
Columbia University
United States |
94.7 | 99.9 | 100 | 97.2 | 16.2 | 84.9 | 96.3 |
| #181 |
Tufts University
United States |
51.5 | 27.4 | 23.6 | 60.5 | 92.9 | 34.9 | 96 |
| #4 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
98.7 | 99.6 | 95.6 | 98.4 | 96.3 | 99.9 | 94 |
| #99 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands |
65.9 | 50.5 | 82.2 | 58.9 | 69.7 | 56 | 93.6 |
| #7 |
Yale University
United States |
97.5 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 92.7 | 63.9 | 93.3 |
| #120 |
Rice University
United States |
60.8 | 46.5 | 26.3 | 71.5 | 48.3 | 71.6 | 93.1 |
| #12 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
94.5 | 98.5 | 96.2 | 99.6 | 55.7 | 66.8 | 92.4 |
| #45 | 78.6 | 99.1 | 77.8 | 25.9 | 61.4 | 73.2 | 92.1 | |
| #263 |
Universität Mannheim
Germany |
41.1 | 25.4 | 75 | 12.5 | 3 | 40.3 | 91.9 |
| #164 |
Case Western Reserve University
United States |
53.8 | 27.4 | 7.1 | 95.9 | 25.1 | 59.4 | 91 |
| #57 |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States |
75.4 | 80.9 | 63.2 | 75.8 | 30.1 | 22.2 | 90.7 |
| #311 |
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States |
38.1 | 39.1 | 18.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 90.1 | |
| #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 |
| #296 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States |
39.1 | 21.4 | 25.3 | 34.4 | 11.5 | 44.1 | 89.6 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
98.6 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 95.8 | 89.4 |
| #241 |
Yeshiva University
United States |
43.1 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 97.4 | 1.8 | 48.7 | 89 |
| #85 |
Utrecht University
Netherlands |
68.7 | 81.4 | 48.4 | 45.8 | 56.1 | 18.9 | 88.2 |
| #98 |
University of Pittsburgh
United States |
66.1 | 53.4 | 26.3 | 93.3 | 68.6 | 36.4 | 87.8 |
| #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 |
| #49 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
77.4 | 86 | 81 | 55.4 | 17.7 | 97.1 | 86.5 |