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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #190 |
University College Cork (UCC)
Ireland |
50.2 | 51.9 | 62 | 42.3 | 90.5 | 45.8 | 37.5 |
| #58 |
University of Warwick
United Kingdom |
73.9 | 89.4 | 100 | 52.3 | 90.3 | 98 | 37.5 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.2 | 100 | 100 | 98.6 | 90 | 78.4 | 100 |
| #103 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
65.1 | 74.8 | 72.3 | 39.6 | 89.9 | 75.4 | 55.7 |
| #368 |
Griffith University
Australia |
33 | 29.6 | 39.8 | 23.3 | 89.9 | 90.8 | 15.8 |
| #109 |
University of Groningen
Netherlands |
64.2 | 62.4 | 43.2 | 72.4 | 89.9 | 79.1 | 56.6 |
| #21 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
89.2 | 99.1 | 96.8 | 72.1 | 89.6 | 93.8 | 77.1 |
| #172 | 52.6 | 55.8 | 44.2 | 40.1 | 89.4 | 96.3 | 40.1 | |
| #162 |
University of Aberdeen
United Kingdom |
54.3 | 43.2 | 49.7 | 54.9 | 89 | 92.5 | 57.1 |
| #178 |
University of Bath
United Kingdom |
51.8 | 47 | 77.5 | 31.8 | 88.9 | 93.5 | 46.3 |
| #250 | 42.2 | 25.8 | 59.3 | 65.8 | 88.6 | 89.7 | 17.3 | |
| #271 |
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong |
40.9 | 27 | 36.1 | 69.4 | 88.4 | 65.2 | 22.5 |
| #242 |
Loughborough University
United Kingdom |
43 | 37.5 | 71.8 | 39.2 | 88.3 | 71.9 | 22.4 |
| #182 |
University of Exeter
United Kingdom |
51.4 | 47.2 | 65.9 | 32.4 | 88.3 | 89 | 50.2 |
| #73 |
University of Southampton
United Kingdom |
70.7 | 73.3 | 69.8 | 60 | 88.2 | 81 | 65.9 |
| #145 |
University of Bergen
Norway |
57 | 47.7 | 29.1 | 59.7 | 87.9 | 36.4 | 81.5 |
| #240 |
University of Ottawa
Canada |
43.5 | 41 | 23.6 | 14.3 | 87.1 | 36.8 | 76 |
| #102 |
University of Adelaide
Australia |
65.3 | 73.8 | 69.5 | 41 | 86.9 | 92.6 | 54.8 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
100 | 100 | 100 | 99.9 | 86.4 | 96.5 | 99.3 |
| #324 |
Dublin City University
Ireland |
36 | 23.8 | 62.9 | 41 | 86.1 | 64.2 | 20.4 |
| #22 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
88.1 | 100 | 100 | 47 | 86.1 | 78.8 | 97.9 |
| #380 |
Bond University
Australia |
32.4 | 11.9 | 43.5 | 63.7 | 86 | 93.8 | 6.3 |
| #18 |
McGill University
Canada |
90.4 | 98.5 | 95.1 | 89.6 | 86 | 91.3 | 69.1 |
| #261 |
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Malaysia |
41.2 | 48 | 26.6 | 57.6 | 85.9 | 45.8 | 4.2 |
| #28 |
University of Bristol
United Kingdom |
85.4 | 91 | 96 | 74.8 | 85.8 | 75.6 | 77.3 |