University rankings

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1,000 universitiesPublisher’s table

RankUniversityCompare
1Harvard UniversityUnited States
2Stanford UniversityUnited States
3Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
5University of California-BerkeleyUnited States
6Princeton UniversityUnited States
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
8Columbia University in the City of New YorkUnited States
9University of ChicagoUnited States
10California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
11Yale UniversityUnited States
12Cornell UniversityUnited States
13Paris-Saclay UniversityFrance
=14University of California-Los AngelesUnited States
=14University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
16University of Washington-Seattle CampusUnited States
17University College LondonUnited Kingdom
18Tsinghua UniversityChina
19ETHZ - ETH ZurichSwitzerland
20University of California-San DiegoUnited States
21University of California-San FranciscoUnited States
22Peking UniversityChina
23Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
=24University of TorontoCanada
=24Zhejiang UniversityChina
26New York UniversityUnited States
27Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityChina
28Washington University in St LouisUnited States
29Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
30University of TokyoJapan
31Northwestern UniversityUnited States
32The Rockefeller UniversityUnited States
33Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance
34University of CopenhagenDenmark
=35University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States
=35University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
37University of MelbourneAustralia
38University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
39University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina
40University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
=41Fudan UniversityChina
=41Karolinska Institute StockholmSweden
=43Kyoto UniversityJapan
=43Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneSwitzerland
45Technical University of MunichGermany
46University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
47The University of Texas at AustinUnited States
48Duke UniversityUnited States
=49Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany
=49University of Colorado BoulderUnited States

How this ranking works

Counts hard research results only: alumni and staff who won Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers in Nature and Science, and indexed publications. No surveys.

Source: ARWU