Top universities in World

Top 200 THE World University Rankings 2012-13


1 California Institute of Technology – United States (1)


2 University of Oxford – United Kingdom (4)


3Stanford University – United States (2)


4 Harvard University – United States (2)


5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – United States (7)

6 Princeton University – United States (5)

7 University of Cambridge – United Kingdom (6)

8 Imperial College London – United Kingdom (8)

9 University of California, Berkeley – United States (10)

10 University of Chicago – United States (9)

11 Yale University – United States (11)

12 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich – Switzerland (15)

13 University of California, Los Angeles – United States (13)

14 Columbia University – United States (12)

15 University of Pennsylvania – United States (16)

16 Johns Hopkins University – United States (14)

17 University College London – United Kingdom (17)

18 Cornell University – United States (20)

19 Northwestern University – United States (26)

20 University of Michigan – United States (18)

21 University of Toronto – Canada (19)

22 Carnegie Mellon University – United States (21)

23 Duke University – United States (22)

24 University of Washington – United States (25)

25 Georgia Institute of Technology – United States (24)

26 University of Texas at Austin – United States (29)

27 University of Tokyo – Japan (30)

28 University of Melbourne – Australia (37)

29 National University of Singapore – Singapore (40)

30 University of British Columbia – Canada (22)

31 University of Wisconsin Madison – United States (27)

32 University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom (36)

33 University of Illinois – Urbana – United States (31)

34 McGill University – Canada (28)

35 University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong (34)

36 University of California, Santa Barbara – United States (35)

37 Australian National University – Australia (38)

38 University of California, San Diego – United States (33)

39 London School of Economics and Political Science – United Kingdom (47)

40 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Switzerland (46)

41 New York University – United States (44)

43 Karolinska Institute – Sweden (32)

44 University of North Carolina – United States (43)

=44 University of California, Davis – United States (38)

=44 Washington University in Saint Louis – United States (41)

46 Peking University – China (49)

47 University of Minnesota – United States (42)

48 University of Munich – Germany (45)

49 University of Manchester – United Kingdom (48)

50 Pohang University of Science and Technology – Korea, Republic of (53)

51 Brown University – United States (49)

52 Tsinghua University – China (71)

53 Ohio State University – United States (57)

54 Boston University – United States (54)

55 Kyoto University – Japan (52)

56 University of Southern California – United States (55)

57 King’s College London – United Kingdom (56)

58 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Belgium (67)

59 École Normale Supérieure, Paris – France (59)

60 Seoul National University – Korea, Republic of (124)

61 Pennsylvania State University – United States (51)

61 École Polytechnique – France (63)

62 University of Sydney – Australia (58)

64 Leiden University – Netherlands (79)

65 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Hong Kong (62)

66 University of Queensland, Australia – Australia (74)

67 Utrecht University – Netherlands (68)

68 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – Korea, Republic of (94)

69 Purdue University – United States (98)

70 University of Göttingen – Germany (69)

71 Wageningen University and Research Center – Netherlands (75)

72 Erasmus University Rotterdam – Netherlands (157)

73 University of Massachusetts – United States (64)

74 University of Bristol – United Kingdom (66)

75 Rice University – United States (72)

76 University of Pittsburgh – United States (59)

77 Delft University of Technology – Netherlands (104)

78 Universität Heidelberg – Germany (73)

79 Emory University – United States (75)

80 Durham University – United Kingdom (83)

81 Université Pierre et Marie Curie – France (84)

82 Lund University – Sweden (80)

83 University of Amsterdam – Netherlands (92)

84 University of Montreal – Canada (104)

85 University of New South Wales – Australia (173)

86 Nanyang Technological University – Singapore (169)

87 Tufts University – United States (77)

88 McMaster University – Canada (65)

89 University of Groningen – Netherlands (134)

89 University of Zurich – Switzerland (61)

91 University of Colorado – United States (77)

92 Université Paris-Sud – France (Not ranked)

93 Ghent University – Belgium (106)

94 Michigan State University – United States (96)

95 University of Notre Dame – United States (89)

96 University of California, Irvine – United States (86)

97 University of Maryland College Park – United States (94)

98 University of Arizona – United States (97)

99 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Germany (109)

100 Monash University – Australia (117)

101 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – United States (81)

102 University of Rochester – United States (81)

103 University of York – United Kingdom (121)

104 Case Western Reserve University – United States (93)

105 Technische Universität München – Germany (88)

106 Uppsala University – Sweden (87)

107 Vanderbilt University – United States (70)

108 University of St. Andrews – United Kingdom (85)

109 University of Helsinki – Finland (91)

110 University of Sheffield – United Kingdom (101)

111 University of Sussex – United Kingdom (99)

112 Trinity College Dublin – Ireland, Republic of (117)

113 University of Cape Town – South Africa (103)

114 Eindhoven University of Technology – Netherlands (115)

115 Maastricht University – Netherlands (197)

116 Aarhus University – Denmark (125)

117 Stockholm University – Sweden (131)

118 University of Virginia – United States (135)

119 Royal Holloway, University of London – United Kingdom (107)

120 University of Nottingham – United Kingdom (140)

121 University of Alberta – Canada (100)

122 University of California, Santa Cruz – United States (110)

123 University of Florida – United States (125)

124 Chinese University Hong Kong – Hong Kong (151)

125 Dartmouth College – United States (90)

126 University of Warwick – United Kingdom (157)

127 Radboud University Nijmegen – Netherlands (159)

128 Freie Universität Berlin – Germany (151)

129 Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan (108)

130 University of Copenhagen – Denmark (135)

131 University of Lausanne – Switzerland (116)

132 University of Southampton – United Kingdom (127)

133 University of Geneva – Switzerland (130)

134 Indiana University – United States (123)

134 National Taiwan University – Taiwan (154)

135 University of Utah – United States (113)

136 Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Israel (121)

137 Tohoku University – Japan (120)

139 University of Glasgow – United Kingdom (102)

140 Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden (187)

140 VU University Amsterdam – Netherlands (159)

141 University of Basel – Switzerland (111)

142 University of Leeds – United Kingdom (133)

144 University of Freiburg – Germany (189)

145 Lancaster University – United Kingdom (131)

145 Queen Mary, University of London – United Kingdom (127)

147 Osaka University – Japan (119)

148 Arizona State University – United States (127)

149 Technical University of Denmark – Denmark (178)

150 Boston College – United States (195)

151 University of Bern – Switzerland (112)

151 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Germany (196)

153 University of Exeter – United Kingdom (156)

154 University of California, Riverside – United States (143)

155 RWTH Aachen University – Germany (168)

156 Texas A&M University – United States (164)

156 Yeshiva University – United States (154)

158 University of Birmingham – United Kingdom (148)

158 University of São Paulo – Brazil (178)

159 Tel Aviv University – Israel (166)

161 University of Auckland – New Zealand (173)

162 Stony Brook University – United States (114)

162 University of Vienna – Austria (139)

164 Université Catholique de Louvain – Belgium (169)

165 University of Delaware – United States (180)

166 Université Paris Diderot – Paris – France (169)

167 University of Texas at Dallas – United States (251-275)

168 George Washington University – United States (135)

169 University of Iowa – United States (141)

170 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon – France (141)

171 Universität Bonn – Germany (Not ranked)

171 University of Liverpool – United Kingdom (181)

171 University of Ottawa – Canada (185)

174 Georgetown University – United States (138)

174 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – United States (144)

176 University of Aberdeen – United Kingdom (151)

176 University of Adelaide – Australia (201-225)

176 University of East Anglia – United Kingdom (145)

176 University of Reading – United Kingdom (164)

180 Université Joseph Fourier – Grenoble 1 – France (Not ranked)

180 Newcastle University – United Kingdom (146)

182 City University Hong Kong – Hong Kong (193)

183 Yonsei University – Korea, Republic of (226-250)

184 Colorado School of Mines – United States (201-225)

184 University of Illinois – Chicago – United States (167)

184 William & Mary – United States (146)

187 University College Dublin – Ireland, Republic of (159)

187 University of Twente – Netherlands (200)

189 Medical University of South Carolina – United States (162)

190 Wake Forest University – United States (162)

190 University of Western Australia – Australia (189)

192 University of Antwerp – Belgium (276-300)

193 Iowa State University – United States (184)

193 University of Miami – United States (172)

193 Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Israel (201-225)

196 University of Leicester – United Kingdom (197)

196 University of Victoria – Canada (177)

198 State University of New York Buffalo – United States (201-225)

199 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main – Germany (181)

200 Birkbeck, University of London – United Kingdom (149)