World University Rankings by QS, Times Higher Education

When deciding about the best schools to study abroad, one need to rely on the World University Rankings of the institutes. , QS University Rankings and Times Higher Education University Rankings are the two most trusted rankings. These two bodies use different parameters to judge and rank around 900+ universities across the globe. These indicators are used to evaluate and analyse the university’s performance at the different levels and help in educating students about the best for them. Read on to know about the World University Rankings 2017.

World University Rankings:

Here we are giving the list of the Top Ranking Universities as per the two most credible brands in the World University Rankings.

Times Higher Education University Rankings and QS World University Rankings

Here is the list of the Top Universities in World as per the Times Higher Education University Rankings 2016-2017 and QS World University Rankings.

Sr. No. Name Times Higher Education   Rank QS Ranking
1 University of Oxford 1 6
2 California Institute of Technology 2 5
3 Stanford University 3 2
4 University of Cambridge 4 4
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 1
6 Harvard University 6 3
7 Princeton University 7 11
8 Imperial College London 8 9
9 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 9 8
10 University of California, Berkeley =10 28
11 University of Chicago =10 10
12 Yale University 12 15
13 University of Pennsylvania 13 18
14 University of California, Los Angeles 14 31
15 University College London 15 7
16 Columbia University 16 20
17 Johns Hopkins University 17 17
18 Duke University 18 =24
19 Cornell University 19 16
20 Northwestern University 20 26
21 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 21 23
22 University of Toronto 22 32
23 Carnegie Mellon University 23 58
24 National University of Singapore 24 12
25 London School of Economics and Political Science =25 =37
26 University of Washington-Seattle =25 59
27 University of Edinburgh 27 19
28 Karolinska Institute 28 N/A
29 Peking University 29 39
30 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne =30 14
31 LMU Munich =30 =68
32 New York University 32 =46
33 Georgia Institute of Technology =33 71
34 University of Melbourne =33 42
35 Tsinghua University 35 =24
36 King’s College London =36 21
37 University of British Columbia =36 45
38 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign =36 66
39 University of Tokyo 39 34
40 KU Leuven 40 79
41 University of California, San Diego 41 40
42 McGill University 42 30
43 Heidelberg University =43 N/A
44 University of Hong Kong =43 27
45 University of Wisconsin-Madison 45 =53
46 Technical University of Munich 46 60
47 Australian National University 47 22
48 University of California, Santa Barbara 48 N/A
49 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 49 36
50 University of Texas at Austin 50 67
51 Brown University =51 =49
52 University of California, Davis =51 =85
53 University of Minnesota Twin Cities 53 N/A
54 Nanyang Technological University 54 13
55 University of Manchester 55 29
56 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 56 78
57 Humboldt University of Berlin =57 N/A
58 Washington University in St Louis =57 N/A
59 Delft University of Technology 59 62
60 University of Queensland =60 =51
61 University of Southern California =60 N/A
62 University of Sydney =60 =46
63 University of Amsterdam 63 57
64 Boston University 64 89
65 Wageningen University & Research 65 N/A
66 École Normale Supérieure 66 33
67 University of Maryland, College Park 67 N/A
68 Pennsylvania State University 68 =95
69 Erasmus University Rotterdam 69 144
70 Purdue University West Lafayette 70 92
71 University of Bristol 71 41
72 Ohio State University =72 88
73 Seoul National University =72 35
74 Monash University 74 65
75 Free University of Berlin 75 N/A
76 Chinese University of Hong Kong 76 44
77 Leiden University 77 =102
78 RWTH Aachen University =78 146
79 University of New South Wales =78 =49
80 University of Groningen =80 =113
81 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus =80 145
82 Dartmouth College =82 158
83 Emory University =82 =149
84 Technical University of Berlin =82 N/A
85 University of Warwick =82 =51
86 Utrecht University 86 =104
87 Rice University 87 90
88 University of Glasgow 88 =63
89 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) =89 =46
90 University of Tübingen =89 167
91 Kyoto University =91 =37
92 University of Helsinki =91 91
93 Uppsala University 93 =98
94 Maastricht University 94 173
95 University of Freiburg 95 N/A
96 Durham University =96 74
97 Lund University =96 73
98 Aarhus University =98 117
99 University of Basel =98 =141
100 University of California, Irvine =98 156