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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 |