Top 200 Universities in the World

Here is the complete ranked list of the Top 200 universities in the world based on World Ranking Universities data, including their rank, name and country

Top 200 Universities (Ranked 1–200)

RankUniversityCountry/Region
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
2Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States
3Harvard UniversityUnited States
4Princeton UniversityUnited States
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
6Stanford UniversityUnited States
7California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States
8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
9Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
10Yale UniversityUnited States
11ETH ZurichSwitzerland
12Tsinghua UniversityChina
13Peking UniversityChina
=14The University of ChicagoUnited States
=14University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
16Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
17National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore
=18Columbia UniversityUnited States
=18University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States
20Cornell UniversityUnited States
21University of TorontoCanada
=22UCLUnited Kingdom
=22University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States
24Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
25University of WashingtonUnited States
26Technical University of MunichGermany
27Duke UniversityUnited States
28The University of TokyoJapan
29University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
30Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)Singapore
31Northwestern UniversityUnited States
32École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Switzerland
33New York University (NYU)United States
34University of California, San Diego (UCSD)United States
35University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong
=36Fudan UniversityChina
=36King’s College LondonUnited Kingdom
38LMU MunichGermany
39University of MelbourneAustralia
40Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
41University of British ColumbiaCanada
42Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research UniversityFrance
43KU LeuvenBelgium
44The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong
45McGill UniversityCanada
46University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
=47Universität HeidelbergGermany
=47Zhejiang UniversityChina
49Karolinska InstituteSweden
=50London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)United Kingdom
=50University of Texas at AustinUnited States
52Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina
=53University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
=53University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina
55Kyoto UniversityJapan
=56Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
=56University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
=58Brown UniversityUnited States
=58Monash UniversityAustralia
=58University of AmsterdamNetherlands
61The University of SydneyAustralia
=62Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
=62University of California, DavisUnited States
64Université Paris-SaclayFrance
65Nanjing UniversityChina
66The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong
=67University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
=67Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands
69Washington University in St LouisUnited States
70University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
71Institut Polytechnique de ParisFrance
72University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
=73Australian National UniversityAustralia
=73Leiden UniversityNetherlands
75Boston UniversityUnited States
76Sorbonne UniversityFrance
77The University of QueenslandAustralia
78City University of Hong KongHong Kong
78University of BristolUnited Kingdom
79Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States
80University of GroningenNetherlands
82Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)South Korea
83UNSW SydneyAustralia
=84Humboldt University of BerlinGermany
=84The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong
=84University of MassachusettsUnited States
=87University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom
=87University of MinnesotaUnited States
89University of BonnGermany
=90University of California, IrvineUnited States
=90Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
92RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany
=93Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany
=93University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
=95KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden
=95Lund UniversitySweden
97University of CopenhagenDenmark
=98Emory UniversityUnited States
=98University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
=100Penn State (Main campus)United States
=100University of TübingenGermany
=102Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)South Korea
=102Yonsei University (Seoul campus)South Korea
=104Free University of BerlinGermany
=104University of BernSwitzerland
106University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
=107Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands
=107Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia
=107University of HelsinkiFinland
=110Aarhus UniversityDenmark
=110University of ViennaAustria
=112Ghent UniversityBelgium
=112Rice UniversityUnited States
=112University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States
115University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom
=116McMaster UniversityCanada
=116Ohio State University (Main campus)United States
=116University of AlbertaCanada
=116University of OsloNorway
120Tohoku UniversityJapan
121University of GöttingenGermany
122Michigan State UniversityUnited States
123University of LeedsUnited Kingdom
124Technical University of DenmarkDenmark
125Université de MontréalCanada
126University of BaselSwitzerland
127University of RochesterUnited States
=128University of AdelaideAustralia
=128University of FreiburgGermany
=130University of FloridaUnited States
=130Uppsala UniversitySweden
=132Maastricht UniversityNetherlands
=132University of HamburgGermany
=134University of LausanneSwitzerland
=134Wuhan UniversityChina
=136University of ArizonaUnited States
=136University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
=136Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands
139Trinity College DublinIreland
140Technical University of BerlinGermany
=141Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom
=141University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campusUnited States
=143Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands
=143Texas A&M UniversityUnited States
=143University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
=146Beijing Normal UniversityChina
=146University of BolognaItaly
=146University of YorkUnited Kingdom
=149The University of Western AustraliaAustralia
=149University of BarcelonaSpain
151Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)South Korea
=152Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina
=152University of AucklandNew Zealand
=154Scuola Normale Superiore di PisaItaly
=154Tongji UniversityChina
=154University of Technology SydneyAustralia
=157Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom
=157University of CologneGermany
159Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States
=160TU DresdenGermany
=160University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom
162Osaka UniversityJapan
=163University of Virginia (Main campus)United States
=163University of WaterlooCanada
=163University of WürzburgGermany
=166Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina
=166Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany
=168Dartmouth CollegeUnited States
=168Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom
=168University of AntwerpBelgium
171University of GenevaSwitzerland
=172Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom
=172National Taiwan University (NTU)Taiwan
=172University of ExeterUnited Kingdom
175Université Catholique de LouvainBelgium
=176King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsSaudi Arabia
=176Pompeu Fabra UniversitySpain
178Macquarie UniversityAustralia
179Tufts UniversityUnited States
=180University of Cape TownSouth Africa
=180University of MacauMacao
=180University of TwenteNetherlands
=183Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)China
=183Université Paris CitéFrance
=185Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands
=185Sapienza University of RomeItaly
=185University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom
188University of MünsterGermany
=189Indiana UniversityUnited States
=189Korea UniversitySouth Korea
=191Abu Dhabi UniversityUnited Arab Emirates
=191Stockholm UniversitySweden
=191University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom
=191University of OttawaCanada
195Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan
=196Aalto UniversityFinland
=196University of California, Santa CruzUnited States
=196University of Notre DameUnited States
=199Ulm UniversityGermany
=199Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)Spain
=199University of MannheimGermany
=199University of São PauloBrazil

Key Observations

  • United States dominates with 78 universities in the top 200.
  • United Kingdom follows with 28 universities.
  • Germany has 17 entries, the highest in continental Europe.
  • China has 10 universities, with Tsinghua (12th) as the highest-ranked.
  • Australia (8), Canada (7), Switzerland (5), Netherlands (8), and France (6) also feature prominently.

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