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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.2 | 100 | 100 | 98.6 | 90 | 78.4 | 100 |
| #304 |
University of Tromsø
Norway |
38.5 | 20.4 | 5.8 | 98.6 | 44.7 | 31.3 | 29.4 |
| #97 | 66.8 | 57.5 | 37.4 | 99.2 | 67.7 | 13.4 | 77.4 | |
| #369 |
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Kazakhstan |
33 | 24.3 | 17.7 | 99.3 | 15.3 | 6.9 | 1 |
| #158 | 54.9 | 44.1 | 38.2 | 99.6 | 98 | 28.7 | 33 | |
| #12 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
94.5 | 98.5 | 96.2 | 99.6 | 55.7 | 66.8 | 92.4 |
| #20 |
Duke University
United States |
89.5 | 95.1 | 81.9 | 99.7 | 16.4 | 44.5 | 96.9 |
| #317 |
Wake Forest University
United States |
37.4 | 5.5 | 99.7 | 13 | 15.9 | 67 | |
| #84 |
Washington University in St. Louis
United States |
69.1 | 60.4 | 22 | 99.7 | 3.6 | 51.9 | 96.8 |
| #6 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
98.3 | 99.8 | 100 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.6 | 87.3 |
| #51 |
University of Copenhagen
Denmark |
76.7 | 83.5 | 71.5 | 99.8 | 71.8 | 41.3 | 48.6 |
| #352 | 34.1 | 22.2 | 42.7 | 99.9 | 1 | 8.1 | 1 | |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
100 | 100 | 100 | 99.9 | 86.4 | 96.5 | 99.3 |
| #10 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
95.1 | 99 | 51.3 | 100 | 96 | 91.1 | 100 |
| #301 |
École des Ponts, ParisTech
France |
38.9 | 17.6 | 51.3 | 100 | 30.9 | 76.7 | 4.8 |
| #153 | 56.1 | 55.7 | 9.9 | 100 | 55.1 | 47.1 | 35.7 | |
| #41 |
Ecole Polytechnique
France |
79.6 | 73.3 | 95.9 | 100 | 72.4 | 92.6 | 57.9 |
| #16 |
Johns Hopkins University
United States |
91.2 | 94.6 | 60.2 | 100 | 56.8 | 74.7 | 99.1 |
| #116 | 61.8 | 77.1 | 71.6 | 100 | 6 | 36.1 | 5.3 | |
| #277 | 40.3 | 12.3 | 6.6 | 100 | 6.9 | 19.7 | 65.1 | |
| #5 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
98.6 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 95.8 | 89.4 |
| #135 |
University of Rochester
United States |
58.7 | 40.1 | 12.5 | 100 | 43.1 | 78.5 | 73.7 |
| #167 |
Vanderbilt University
United States |
53.5 | 41.4 | 35.8 | 100 | 13.3 | 28.7 | 53.5 |
| #161 |
Wageningen University
Netherlands |
54.6 | 44.2 | 27 | 100 | 30.8 | 97.4 | 36.2 |
| #7 |
Yale University
United States |
97.5 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 92.7 | 63.9 | 93.3 |