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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #29 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
85.1 | 79.1 | 75.8 | 95.1 | 100 | 100 | 79.9 |
| #66 |
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom |
71.3 | 77.7 | 75.3 | 58.8 | 79.6 | 84.5 | 60.2 |
| #200 |
Keio University
Japan |
49.1 | 61.4 | 75.1 | 59.7 | 15 | 7.7 | 17.5 |
| #67 |
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland |
71.3 | 79.6 | 75 | 54.1 | 99.1 | 80.4 | 57 |
| #263 |
Universität Mannheim
Germany |
41.1 | 25.4 | 75 | 12.5 | 3 | 40.3 | 91.9 |
| #306 | 38.5 | 41 | 74.9 | 52.1 | 34.8 | 29.7 | 2.9 | |
| #213 |
Sciences Po Paris
France |
47.8 | 35.6 | 74.8 | 89.4 | 52.2 | 96.3 | 1.5 |
| #62 |
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands |
72.1 | 89.8 | 74.6 | 43.4 | 54.4 | 28.8 | 75.7 |
| #65 | 71.4 | 76.1 | 74.5 | 79.8 | 14.3 | 38 | 70.8 | |
| #126 |
Newcastle University
United Kingdom |
59.7 | 45.8 | 73.8 | 61.8 | 82.3 | 90.5 | 62.1 |
| #264 |
University of Wollongong
Australia |
41.1 | 29.5 | 73.4 | 35.7 | 99.5 | 82.8 | 26.5 |
| #312 | 38.1 | 40 | 73 | 30.9 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 40.3 | |
| #166 |
Queen's University of Belfast
United Kingdom |
53.5 | 45.4 | 73 | 53.5 | 97.7 | 78.1 | 40.2 |
| #40 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong |
80.1 | 93.5 | 72.4 | 79.8 | 95.7 | 83.1 | 48.7 |
| #103 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
65.1 | 74.8 | 72.3 | 39.6 | 89.9 | 75.4 | 55.7 |
| #60 | 72.9 | 97 | 71.9 | 33.6 | 35.7 | 50 | 75.6 | |
| #242 |
Loughborough University
United Kingdom |
43 | 37.5 | 71.8 | 39.2 | 88.3 | 71.9 | 22.4 |
| #116 | 61.8 | 77.1 | 71.6 | 100 | 6 | 36.1 | 5.3 | |
| #51 |
University of Copenhagen
Denmark |
76.7 | 83.5 | 71.5 | 99.8 | 71.8 | 41.3 | 48.6 |
| #191 |
University of Waterloo
Canada |
50.2 | 56.1 | 71.5 | 20.8 | 80.1 | 45.6 | 48.2 |
| #233 |
Macquarie University
Australia |
44.7 | 47.4 | 71.2 | 13.5 | 98.5 | 98.2 | 28.2 |
| #79 |
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Australia |
70 | 77.8 | 70.9 | 39.9 | 99.3 | 81.7 | 70.1 |
| #54 |
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom |
76.3 | 82.4 | 70.7 | 60.3 | 78.5 | 76.7 | 78.3 |
| #123 |
University of Virginia
United States |
60.4 | 52.4 | 70.7 | 66.2 | 29.3 | 39.9 | 75.3 |
| #354 |
Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Korea, South |
34.1 | 19.6 | 70.3 | 71 | 51 | 36.2 | 1.7 |













