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2021 QS Global University Ranking
Top 60
| 2021 | 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 | United Kingdom |
| 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 12 | Princeton University | United States |
| 13 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 14 | EPFL | Switzerland |
| 15 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 17 | Yale University | United States |
| 18 | Cornell University | United States |
| 19 | Columbia University | United States |
| 20 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 22 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR |
| 23 | Peking University | China (Mainland) |
| 24 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 25 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 27 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong SAR |
| 27 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 29 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 30 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 31 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 31 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 31 | McGill University | Canada |
| 34 | Fudan University | China (Mainland) |
| 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 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
| 41 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 42 | Duke University | United States |
| 43 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR |
| 44 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 45 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 46 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 47 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China (Mainland) |
| 48 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR |
| 49 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
| 50 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 51 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 52 | Université PSL | France |
| 53 | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) |
| 54 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 55 | Monash University | Australia |
| 56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan |
| 57 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 58 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 59 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
| 60 | Brown University |
United States |
Next 140
| 2021 | UNIVERSITY | LOCATION |
| 61 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
| 61 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 62 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 63 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
| 64 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany |
| 65 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 66 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 66 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
| 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 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR |
| 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 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 82 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 83 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 84 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 85 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 86 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 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 | The University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 93 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 93 | University of Science and Technology of China | China (Mainland) |
| 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 |
| 101 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 101 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland |
| 103 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 104 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 105 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 106 | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 106 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 108 | The Ohio State University | United States |
| 109 | Purdue University | United States |
| 110 | Boston University | United States |
| 110 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 112 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 113 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 114 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 114 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 115 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil |
| 115 | Wageningen University & Research | Netherlands |
| 117 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany |
| 118 | Université de Montréal | Canada |
| 119 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 120 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 121 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile |
| 121 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 121 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 124 | Kyushu University | Japan |
| 124 | Nanjing University | China (Mainland) |
| 124 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 127 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 128 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 128 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 130 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany |
| 131 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 132 | Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) | Malaysia |
| 133 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 135 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 135 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 137 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| 138 | CentraleSupélec | France |
| 139 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
| 139 | Hokkaido University | Japan |
| 141 | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) | Malaysia |
| 142 | Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) | Malaysia |
| 143 | King Abdulaziz University (KAU) | Saudi Arabia |
| 144 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 145 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 146 | Hanyang University | South Korea |
| 147 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 148 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | Germany |
| 149 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 150 | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 150 | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 152 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 152 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States |
| 152 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 155 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico |
| 156 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 157 | Michigan State University | United States |
| 158 | Emory University | United States |
| 159 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 160 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | Italy |
| 161 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
| 162 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
| 162 | University of Florida | United States |
| 164 | The University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| 165 | University of Rochester | United States |
| 165 | Al-Farabi Kazakh National University | Kazakhstan |
| 166 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 168 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan |
| 169 | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 169 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 171 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
| 172 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | India |
| 173 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany |
| 173 | University of Bath | United Kingdom |
| 175 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Germany |
| 175 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | Germany |
| 177 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 177 | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| 177 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | United States |
| 180 | Universidad de Chile | Chile |
| 181 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 181 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 183 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain |
| 184 | University of Otago | New Zealand |
| 185 | Indian Institute of Science | India |
| 186 | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia |
| 187 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | Malaysia |
| 187 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 189 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) | Belgium |
| 189 | Waseda University | Japan |
| 191 | Keio University | Japan |
| 191 | Vienna University of Technology | Austria |
| 193 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | India |
| 194 | University of Bergen | Norway |
| 195 | University of Göttingen | Germany |
| 196 | University of Wollongong | Australia |
| 197 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 197 | The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) | Australia |
| 197 | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 200 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain |