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The world’s top 100 universities
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By Staff Writer

Updated November 15, 2022
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MIT is the best university in the world for the 11th consecutive year.
This year’s QS World University Rankings feature over 1,400 universities in total.
Want to study at one of the world’s top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of the top 1,400+ universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100.

In the 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 27 representatives) or the UK (17).

Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities.

Top 100 Universities in the World

According to the QS World University Rankings 2023

Rank

University

Location

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

2

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

3

Stanford University

United States

4

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

5

Harvard University

United States

=6

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

United States

=6

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

8

UCL (University College London)

United Kingdom

9

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Switzerland

10

University of Chicago

United States

11

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

12

Peking University

Mainland China

13

University of Pennsylvania

United States

14

Tsinghua University

Mainland China

15

University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom

=16

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

=16

Princeton University

United States

18

Yale University

United States

19

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

Singapore

20

Cornell University

United States

21

University of Hong Kong (UKU)

Hong Kong SAR

22

Columbia University

United States

23

University of Tokyo

Japan

24

Johns Hopkins University

United States

25

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

United States

26

Universite PSL

France

27

University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

United States

28

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

29

Seoul National University

South Korea

30

Australian National University

Australia

31

McGill University

Canada

32

Northwestern University

United States

33

University of Melbourne

Australia

=34

Fudan University

Mainland China

=34

University of Toronto

Canada

36

Kyoto University

Japan

37

King’s College London

United Kingdom

38

Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Hong Kong SAR

39

New York University (NYU)

United States

40

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Hong Kong SAR

41

University of Sydney

Australia

=42

KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

South Korea

=42

Zhejiang University

Mainland China

44

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

United States

45

University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)

Australia

46

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mainland China

47

University of British Columbia

Canada

48

Institut Polytechnique de Paris

France

49

Technical University of Munich

Germany

=50

Duke University

United States

=50

University of Queensland

Australia

52

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

53

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

United States

54

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong SAR

55

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

56

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

United Kingdom

57

Monash University

Australia

58

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

59

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Germany

60

Sorbonne University

France

=61

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

=61

University of Bristol

United Kingdom

63

Brown University

United States

64

University of Warwick

United Kingdom

=65

Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg

Germany

=65

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong SAR

67

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Argentina

68

Osaka University

Japan

69

Universit Paris-Saclay

France

70

Universiti Malaya (UM)

Malaysia

71

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

South Korea

72

University of Texas at Austin

United States

73

Yonsei University

South Korea

74

Korea University

South Korea

75

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Russia

76

KU Leuven

Belgium

77

National Taiwan University (NTU)

Taiwan

78

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

79

Tohoku University

Japan

80

University of Washington

United States

81

University of Glasgow

United Kingdom

82

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

=83

University of Wisconsin-Madison

United States

=83

University of Zurich

Switzerland

85

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

86

University of Leeds

United Kingdom

87

University of Auckland

New Zealand

88

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

89

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

90

University of Western Australia

Australia

91

University of Birmingham

United Kingdom

92

Durham University

United Kingdom

93

Pennsylvania State University

United States

94

University of Science and Technology of China

Mainland China

95

Lund University

Sweden

=96

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

=96

University of St Andrews

United Kingdom

98

Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Ireland

99

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

South Korea

100

Rice University

United States

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This article was originally published in June 2013 . It was last updated in November 2022