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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #363 |
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa |
33.3 | 37.2 | 30.6 | 19.3 | 74.6 | 28.9 | 29.9 |
| #239 |
University of Liege
Belgium |
43.6 | 34.8 | 30.7 | 46.2 | 31.2 | 67.7 | 59.8 |
| #267 |
Royal Holloway University of London
United Kingdom |
41.1 | 33.9 | 30.8 | 36.5 | 94.8 | 95.8 | 35.9 |
| #387 |
University of Georgia
United States |
31.9 | 31.9 | 31.1 | 27.3 | 2.1 | 10.1 | 48.2 |
| #249 |
Hanyang University
South Korea |
42.5 | 37.2 | 31.2 | 88 | 24.8 | 49 | 13.7 |
| #121 |
University of Basel
Switzerland |
60.5 | 51.6 | 31.2 | 75 | 100 | 82.5 | 60.2 |
| #396 | 31.4 | 28.3 | 31.5 | 35.6 | 30.6 | 79.6 | 19.8 | |
| #186 | 51 | 57.9 | 32.1 | 56.3 | 9.3 | 1.6 | 61.5 | |
| #367 | 33 | 16 | 32.3 | 98.4 | 7.3 | 56.4 | 1 | |
| #196 |
University of Antwerp
Belgium |
49.5 | 35.6 | 32.5 | 98 | 64.3 | 49.7 | 31 |
| #391 |
Sogang University
South Korea |
31.6 | 33.3 | 32.9 | 53.6 | 20.2 | 24.7 | 8.7 |
| #180 |
University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
United States |
51.6 | 45.4 | 33.3 | 53.8 | 26.2 | 19.4 | 82.5 |
| #282 |
Simon Fraser University
Canada |
40.1 | 37.3 | 34.1 | 11.9 | 95 | 64.4 | 55.1 |
| #215 |
University of Reading
United Kingdom |
47.6 | 44.1 | 34.4 | 50.9 | 84.3 | 80.1 | 38.4 |
| #339 |
George Washington University
United States |
35.1 | 37.1 | 34.6 | 36.2 | 2.5 | 35.1 | 36.8 |
| #193 |
University of Gothenburg
Sweden |
50 | 51.2 | 34.9 | 46.1 | 46.4 | 42.5 | 59.5 |
| #359 |
Universidad de Navarra
Spain |
33.6 | 22.2 | 35.3 | 60.1 | 27.5 | 51.1 | 24.7 |
| #152 |
McMaster University
Canada |
56.1 | 57.2 | 35.4 | 30.5 | 67.2 | 54.2 | 84.7 |
| #70 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
70.9 | 97.5 | 35.7 | 31.7 | 3 | 23.1 | 100 |
| #167 |
Vanderbilt University
United States |
53.5 | 41.4 | 35.8 | 100 | 13.3 | 28.7 | 53.5 |
| #271 |
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong |
40.9 | 27 | 36.1 | 69.4 | 88.4 | 65.2 | 22.5 |
| #132 |
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark |
59 | 38.6 | 36.3 | 97.3 | 93.1 | 73.4 | 57.9 |
| #308 |
Massey University
New Zealand |
38.2 | 41.8 | 36.4 | 32.5 | 95.5 | 41 | 20.6 |
| #286 |
Charles University
Czech Republic |
39.9 | 51.5 | 36.6 | 43.1 | 13.6 | 47.8 | 17.6 |
| #340 |
Linköping University
Sweden |
35 | 34 | 36.6 | 38 | 38.4 | 10.6 | 36.8 |