QS World University Rankings 2021
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 1,029 universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100.
The World’s Top 100 University List
In the 2021 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 (18).
Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100.
Rank | University | Location |
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
2 | Stanford University | United States |
3 | Harvard University | United States |
4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
5 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
6 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
| Switzerland
|
7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
9 | University of Chicago | United States |
10 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
12 | Princeton University | United States |
13 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
14 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
15 | Tsinghua University | China |
16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
18 | Yale University | United States |
17 | Cornell University | United States |
19 | Columbia University | United States |
20 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
22 | University of Hong Kong (UKU) | Hong Kong |
23 | Peking University | China |
24 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
25= | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
25= | University of Toronto | Canada |
27= | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong |
27= | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
29 | Northwestern University | United States |
30 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
31= | Australian National University | Australia |
31= | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
31= | McGill University | Canada |
34 | Fudan University | China |
35 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
36 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
37 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
38 | Kyoto University | Japan |
39 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
40 | University of Sydney | Australia |
41 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
42 | Duke University | United States |
43 | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
44 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
45 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
46 | University of Queensland | Australia |
47 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
48 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
49 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
50 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
51 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
52 | Universite PSL | France |
53 | Zhejiang University | China |
54 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
55 | Monash University | Australia |
56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
57 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
58 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
59 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
60 | Brown University | United States |
61 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
62 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
63 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
64 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg | Germany |
65 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
66= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
66= | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
68 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
69= | Korea University | South Korea |
69= | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
71 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
72= | Osaka University | Japan |
72= | University of Washington | United States |
74 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
75 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
76 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
77= | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
77= | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
79 | Tohoku University | Japan |
80 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
81 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
82 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
83 | Sorbonne University | France |
84 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
86 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
85 | Yonsei University
| South Korea |
87 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
88 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
89 | Rice University | United States |
90 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
91 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
92 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
93= | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
93= | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
95 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States |
96 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
97 | Lund University | Sweden |
98 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
99 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
| Mexico |
This article was originally published in June 2013. It was updated in June 2020 with the most-recent rankings data.
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