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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #44 |
Peking University
China |
78.8 | 99.7 | 96.6 | 82.6 | 55.7 | 35 | 36.8 |
| #92 |
Durham University
United Kingdom |
67.9 | 71.1 | 96.8 | 45 | 91 | 70.4 | 60 |
| #21 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
89.2 | 99.1 | 96.8 | 72.1 | 89.6 | 93.8 | 77.1 |
| #30 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
85 | 100 | 97.6 | 89.3 | 11.1 | 25.8 | 73.1 |
| #48 |
Tsinghua University
China |
77.5 | 98.8 | 97.6 | 86 | 50.6 | 26.3 | 32 |
| #25 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
87.2 | 100 | 99.4 | 81.4 | 100 | 98.2 | 51.1 |
| #11 |
Columbia University
United States |
94.7 | 99.9 | 100 | 97.2 | 16.2 | 84.9 | 96.3 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.2 | 100 | 100 | 98.6 | 90 | 78.4 | 100 |
| #6 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
98.3 | 99.8 | 100 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.6 | 87.3 |
| #69 |
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom |
71.1 | 88 | 100 | 58.6 | 100 | 100 | 17.4 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
100 | 100 | 100 | 99.9 | 86.4 | 96.5 | 99.3 |
| #15 |
Stanford University
United States |
91.7 | 100 | 100 | 72.4 | 41.9 | 83.5 | 100 |
| #22 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
88.1 | 100 | 100 | 47 | 86.1 | 78.8 | 97.9 |
| #2 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
99.8 | 100 | 100 | 98.3 | 98.2 | 96 | 97 |
| #32 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
84.2 | 98.5 | 100 | 63.2 | 85.2 | 91.4 | 62.2 |
| #36 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
83.2 | 99.8 | 100 | 46.8 | 68.9 | 92.3 | 74.9 |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
98.6 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 95.8 | 89.4 |
| #58 |
University of Warwick
United Kingdom |
73.9 | 89.4 | 100 | 52.3 | 90.3 | 98 | 37.5 |
| #7 |
Yale University
United States |
97.5 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 92.7 | 63.9 | 93.3 |
| #399 |
Universität Bayreuth
Germany |
31.3 | 51.3 | 41 | 20.5 | 28.8 | ||
| #364 |
Universität des Saarlandes
Germany |
33.3 | 22.4 | 34.7 | 45.6 | 60.8 | 58.6 | |
| #234 | 44.4 | 60.3 | 34 | 40.2 | 49.4 | 42.8 | ||
| #351 | 34.2 | 40 | 54.3 | 30.9 | 32.7 | 18.8 | ||
| #311 |
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States |
38.1 | 39.1 | 18.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 90.1 | |
| #317 |
Wake Forest University
United States |
37.4 | 5.5 | 99.7 | 13 | 15.9 | 67 |













