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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
#79	University of Western Australia (UWA) Australia	70	77.8	70.9	39.9	99.3	81.7	70.1
#173	University of Western Ontario Canada	52.6	49.3	66.1	28.2	56.2	38	76.9
#38	University of Wisconsin-Madison United States	81.4	97.1	68.6	85.2	52.4	32.9	68
#264	University of Wollongong Australia	41.1	29.5	73.4	35.7	99.5	82.8	26.5
#110	University of York United Kingdom	63.8	69.2	69.5	48.7	84.5	81.4	52.2
#90	University of Zurich Switzerland	68.3	76.6	47.7	53.8	100	53.6	68.9
#81	Uppsala University Sweden	69.8	84.3	51.5	42.7	52.7	39.9	85
#85	Utrecht University Netherlands	68.7	81.4	48.4	45.8	56.1	18.9	88.2
#167	Vanderbilt University United States	53.5	41.4	35.8	100	13.3	28.7	53.5
#237	Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand	44.2	52.9	63	18.8	100	78.6	18
#274	Vienna University of Technology Austria	40.6	43.6	52.7	26.6	56.6	89.7	24.1
#337	Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) United States	35.2	37.5	40.2	34.1	25.8	21.9	33.1
#189	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium	50.5	36	59	92.1	50.3	62.8	27.9
#177	VU University Amsterdam Netherlands	51.8	65	49.3	44.5	45.2	16.9	41.9
#161	Wageningen University Netherlands	54.6	44.2	27	100	30.8	97.4	36.2
#317	Wake Forest University United States	37.4	5.5		99.7	13	15.9	67
#198	Waseda University Japan	49.2	73.9	78.8	34.5	32.5	22.7	8.1
#356	Washington State University United States	34	32	28	32.2	72.6	20.3	34.6
#84	Washington University in St. Louis United States	69.1	60.4	22	99.7	3.6	51.9	96.8
#245	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster Germany	42.8	48.6	39.3	53.5	24.6	21	30.1
#361	Xi'an Jiaotong University China	33.5	29.9	40.6	69.8	6.9	10.2	11.7
#7	Yale University United States	97.5	100	100	100	92.7	63.9	93.3
#241	Yeshiva University United States	43.1	6.1	4.1	97.4	1.8	48.7	89
#112	Yonsei University South Korea	63.5	80	65.3	83.7	12.6	38	25.5
#170	Zhejiang University China	52.8	70.5	59.5	29.5	16.3	6.9	55.1

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World's Best Universities Top 400

World's Best Universities
Top 400