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US News and World Report – Best Global Universities 2023

2022-2023 Best Global Universities as ranked by U.S. News – By Joshua Welling Oct. 24, 2022.

The best research universities in the world

The Best Global Universities rankings focus specifically on schools’ academic research and reputation overall and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs, the rankings can help those applicants accurately compare institutions around the world. The top universities in the world work across borders to attract international talent and address global issues.

Top 50

Rank	Name	Enrollment	Score	Location
#1	Harvard University	21,900	100	United States\|Cambridge (U.S.)
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	11,500	97.7	United States\|Cambridge (U.S.)
#3	Stanford University	16,200	95.2	United States\|Stanford
#4	University of California Berkeley	41,000	88.7	United States\|Berkeley
#5	University of Oxford	N/A	86.8	United Kingdom\|Oxford
#6	University of Washington Seattle	47,800	86.6	United States\|Seattle
#7	Columbia University	21,800	86.5	United States\|New York City
#8	University of Cambridge	20,400	86.1	United Kingdom\|Cambridge (U.K.)
#9	California Institute of Technology	2,300	85.6	United States\|Pasadena
#10	Johns Hopkins University	17,600	84.7	United States\|Baltimore
#11	Yale University	13,500	84.6	United States\|New Haven
#12	University College London	36,900	84.4	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#13	Imperial College London	18,500	84.3	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#14	University of California Los Angeles	43,300	84.2	United States\|Los Angeles
#15	University of Pennsylvania	21,500	84	United States\|Philadelphia
#16	Princeton University	N/A	83.9	United States\|Princeton
#16	University of California San Francisco	N/A	83.9	United States\|San Francisco
#18	University of Toronto	77,500	83.8	Canada\|Toronto
#19	University of Michigan	46,200	83.4	United States\|Ann Arbor
#20	University of California San Diego	N/A	83.3	United States\|La Jolla
#21	Cornell University	24,100	82.9	United States\|Ithaca
#22	University of Chicago	N/A	82.5	United States\|Chicago
#23	Tsinghua University	N/A	81.3	China\|Beijing
#24	Northwestern University	18,900	81.2	United States\|Evanston
#25	Duke University	N/A	80.7	United States\|Durham (North Carolina, U.S.)
#26	National University of Singapore	32,400	80.4	Singapore\|Singapore
#27	University of Melbourne	N/A	80.3	Australia\|Parkville
#28	University of Sydney	47,200	79.9	Australia\|Sydney
#29	ETH Zurich	21,300	79.3	Switzerland\|Zurich
#30	Nanyang Technological University	24,700	79	Singapore\|Singapore
#31	New York University	36,400	78.5	United States\|New York City
#32	Washington University (WUSTL)	14,800	78.1	United States\|St. Louis
#33	King’s College London	29,300	77.9	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#34	University of Edinburgh	32,800	77.8	United Kingdom\|Edinburgh
#35	University of British Columbia	58,600	77.5	Canada\|Vancouver
#36	University of Queensland	41,400	77.2	Australia\|Brisbane
#37	Monash University	58,800	77	Australia\|Clayton
#37	University of New South Wales Sydney	45,200	77	Australia\|Kensington
#39	Peking University	32,000	76.8	China\|Beijing
#39	University of Amsterdam	N/A	76.8	Netherlands\|Amsterdam
#41	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	30,900	76.7	United States\|Chapel Hill
#42	University of Copenhagen	N/A	76.2	Denmark\|Copenhagen
#43	University of Texas Austin	N/A	75.9	United States\|Austin
#44	Utrecht University	32,600	75.7	Netherlands\|Utrecht
#45	University of Pittsburgh	26,600	75.6	United States\|Pittsburgh
#46	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	N/A	75.4	United States\|New York City
#47	University of Munich	N/A	75.3	Germany\|Munich
#48	Sorbonne Universite	44,700	75.2	France\|Paris
#48	Universite de Paris	N/A	75.2	France\|Paris
#50	KU Leuven	47,700	75.1	Belgium\|Leuven

Innovative, globe-spanning scholarship requires a concerted effort by institutions to support international students and faculty. The overall 2022-2023 Best Global Universities rankings include 2,000 top universities from 95 countries, up from 1,750 schools and 90 countries last year. These universities are ranked according to research performance and reputation.

Next 250

Rank	Name	Enrollment	Score	Location
#51	Georgia Institute of Technology	N/A	74.9	United States\|Atlanta
#51	Karolinska Institutet	8,100	74.9	Sweden\|Stockholm
#53	Chinese University of Hong Kong	18,500	74.7	Hong Kong\|Shatin
#54	McGill University	32,400	74.6	Canada\|Montreal
#55	Ohio State University	55,900	74.4	United States\|Columbus
#55	University of Hong Kong	18,100	74.4	Hong Kong\|Pok Fu Lam
#57	Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg	19,400	74.3	Germany\|Heidelberg
#57	University of Maryland College Park	33,800	74.3	United States\|College Park
#57	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	45,300	74.3	United States\|Minneapolis
#60	Universite Paris Saclay	N/A	74.1	France\|Saint-Aubin
#61	Humboldt University of Berlin	34,400	74	Germany\|Berlin
#62	Australian National University	16,800	73.9	Australia\|Canberra
#63	University of Manchester	N/A	73.8	United Kingdom\|Manchester
#63	University of Wisconsin Madison	40,800	73.8	United States\|Madison
#65	Erasmus University Rotterdam	N/A	73.4	Netherlands\|Rotterdam
#65	King Abdulaziz University	N/A	73.4	Saudi Arabia\|Jeddah
#67	University of California Santa Barbara	N/A	73.3	United States\|Santa Barbara
#67	University of Zurich	25,300	73.3	Switzerland\|Zurich
#69	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	11,700	73.2	Switzerland\|Lausanne
#70	Boston University	27,300	73.1	United States\|Boston
#70	University of Colorado Boulder	35,000	73.1	United States\|Boulder
#72	Emory University	13,200	73	United States\|Atlanta
#73	University of California Davis	N/A	72.9	United States\|Davis
#74	Leiden University	N/A	72.8	Netherlands\|Leiden
#74	University of Adelaide	23,200	72.8	Australia\|Adelaide
#74	University of Glasgow	28,300	72.8	United Kingdom\|Glasgow
#74	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	N/A	72.8	United States\|Champaign
#78	Vanderbilt University	N/A	72.7	United States\|Nashville
#79	Technical University of Munich	34,000	72.6	Germany\|Munich
#80	University of Southern California	42,600	72.5	United States\|Los Angeles
#81	University of Tokyo	26,200	72.4	Japan\|Tokyo
#82	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	N/A	72.3	Netherlands\|Amsterdam
#83	University of Western Australia	18,500	72.2	Australia\|Crawley
#84	Pennsylvania State University	46,900	71.9	United States\|University Park
#84	University of California Irvine	36,700	71.9	United States\|Irvine
#86	University of Barcelona	45,100	71.8	Spain\|Barcelona
#87	Free University of Berlin	36,800	71.7	Germany\|Berlin
#88	University of Groningen	30,100	71.5	Netherlands\|Groningen
#89	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	37,500	71.3	China\|Shanghai
#89	University of Birmingham	32,600	71.3	United Kingdom\|Birmingham (U.K.)
#89	University of Oslo	N/A	71.3	Norway\|Oslo
#89	Wageningen University & Research	15,500	71.3	Netherlands\|Wageningen
#93	University of Bristol	25,700	70.7	United Kingdom\|Bristol
#93	Zhejiang University	44,700	70.7	China\|Hangzhou
#95	Ghent University	39,500	70.6	Belgium\|Gent
#95	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	9,900	70.6	Hong Kong\|Hong Kong
#95	King Abdullah University of Science & Technology	N/A	70.6	Saudi Arabia\|Thuwal
#98	University of Florida	46,900	70.4	United States\|Gainesville
#99	University of Helsinki	N/A	70.3	Finland\|Helsinki
#100	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	19,100	70.2	Hong Kong\|Kowloon
#100	Queen Mary University London	20,500	70.2	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#102	University of Science & Technology of China, CAS	18,600	70.1	China\|Hefei
#103	Rockefeller University	300	70	United States\|New York City
#104	University of Southampton	N/A	69.7	United Kingdom\|Southampton
#105	University of California Santa Cruz	19,500	69.5	United States\|Santa Cruz
#106	Radboud University Nijmegen	22,000	69.4	Netherlands\|Nijmegen
#107	University of Bern	11,800	69.3	Switzerland\|Bern
#108	University of Arizona	39,800	69.2	United States\|Tucson
#109	Aarhus University	26,500	69.1	Denmark\|Aarhus
#109	Huazhong University of Science & Technology	57,200	69.1	China\|Wuhan
#109	University of Geneva	N/A	69.1	Switzerland\|Geneva
#112	Lund University	N/A	69	Sweden\|Lund
#112	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS	N/A	69	China\|Beijing
#112	University of Technology Sydney	N/A	69	Australia\|Ultimo
#115	University of Padua	48,600	68.9	Italy\|Padua
#116	Fudan University	N/A	68.8	China\|Shanghai
#116	Michigan State University	45,500	68.8	United States\|East Lansing
#118	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	68.7	United States\|Pittsburgh
#119	University of Virginia	N/A	68.6	United States\|Charlottesville
#120	City University of Hong Kong	9,100	68.5	Hong Kong\|Kowloon
#120	Universidade de Sao Paulo	82,100	68.5	Brazil\|Sao Paulo
#122	University of Bologna	N/A	68.3	Italy\|Bologna
#123	Nanjing University	36,500	68.2	China\|Nanjing
#123	University of Auckland	33,100	68.2	New Zealand\|Auckland
#125	Sapienza University Rome	74,200	68	Italy\|Rome
#125	University of Cape Town	21,100	68	South Africa\|Cape Town
#127	Stockholm University	N/A	67.8	Sweden\|Stockholm
#127	Uppsala University	N/A	67.8	Sweden\|Uppsala
#129	Brown University	10,100	67.5	United States\|Providence
#129	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	N/A	67.5	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#129	Seoul National University (SNU)	26,300	67.5	South Korea\|Seoul
#129	Sun Yat Sen University	58,300	67.5	China\|Guangzhou
#133	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas	N/A	67.4	United States\|Dallas
#134	University of Sheffield	27,900	67.3	United Kingdom\|Sheffield
#134	Weizmann Institute of Science	N/A	67.3	Israel\|Rehovot
#136	Baylor College of Medicine	N/A	67.1	United States\|Houston
#136	University of Alberta	32,400	67.1	Canada\|Edmonton
#138	McMaster University	N/A	67	Canada\|Hamilton
#138	University of Bonn	27,300	67	Germany\|Bonn
#140	Kyoto University	N/A	66.9	Japan\|Kyoto
#140	Purdue University West Lafayette Campus	N/A	66.9	United States\|West Lafayette
#140	University of Leeds	N/A	66.9	United Kingdom\|Leeds
#143	Autonomous University of Barcelona	32,000	66.8	Spain\|Barcelona
#143	Rutgers State University New Brunswick	46,200	66.8	United States\|Piscataway Township
#145	University of Nottingham	N/A	66.7	United Kingdom\|Nottingham
#146	University of Gothenburg	21,000	66.6	Sweden\|Gothenburg
#146	University of Liverpool	27,200	66.6	United Kingdom\|Liverpool
#148	Texas A&M University College Station	63,000	66.5	United States\|College Station
#149	University of Hamburg	30,700	66.3	Germany\|Hamburg
#150	University of Basel	N/A	66.2	Switzerland\|Basel
#150	Wuhan University	N/A	66.2	China\|Wuhan
#152	Cardiff University	N/A	66.1	United Kingdom\|Cardiff
#152	Case Western Reserve University	11,000	66.1	United States\|Cleveland
#152	Indiana University Bloomington	N/A	66.1	United States\|Bloomington
#152	University of Exeter	25,000	66.1	United Kingdom\|Exeter
#156	Arizona State University-Tempe	50,100	65.9	United States\|Tempe
#156	Newcastle University – UK	27,000	65.9	United Kingdom\|Newcastle upon Tyne
#156	Universite de Montreal	38,200	65.9	Canada\|Montreal
#156	University of Milan	N/A	65.9	Italy\|Milan
#160	Curtin University	30,000	65.8	Australia\|Bentley
#160	University of Alabama Birmingham	N/A	65.8	United States\|Birmingham (U.S.)
#160	University of Massachusetts Amherst	N/A	65.8	United States\|Amherst
#163	University of Gottingen	30,300	65.7	Germany\|Gottingen
#163	University of Warwick	23,900	65.7	United Kingdom\|Coventry
#165	Oregon Health & Science University	N/A	65.5	United States\|Portland
#165	Technical University of Denmark	9,600	65.5	Denmark\|Kongens Lyngby
#167	University of Utah	31,000	65.4	United States\|Salt Lake City
#168	Hunan University	41,600	65.3	China\|Changsha
#169	Delft University of Technology	N/A	65.1	Netherlands\|Delft
#170	University of Rochester	10,400	64.8	United States\|Rochester
#171	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	37,200	64.7	Australia\|Brisbane
#171	Universite Catholique Louvain	24,600	64.7	Belgium\|Louvain-la-Neuve
#173	Cankaya University	N/A	64.6	Turkey\|Ankara
#174	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	N/A	64.4	United States\|Aurora
#175	Tel Aviv University	23,900	64.2	Israel\|Tel Aviv
#175	University of Calgary	33,600	64.2	Canada\|Calgary
#175	University of Sussex	18,100	64.2	United Kingdom\|Brighton
#178	Aix-Marseille Universite	70,100	64.1	France\|Marseille
#178	University of Freiburg	N/A	64.1	Germany\|Freiburg
#180	Rice University	7,100	64	United States\|Houston
#180	University of Iowa	29,300	64	United States\|Iowa City
#182	Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen	N/A	63.9	Germany\|Tubingen
#182	Lancaster University	14,700	63.9	United Kingdom\|Lancaster
#182	University of Lausanne	13,500	63.9	Switzerland\|Lausanne
#185	University of Naples Federico II	N/A	63.7	Italy\|Naples
#186	Maastricht University	N/A	63.6	Netherlands\|Maastricht
#186	Technische Universitat Dresden	30,600	63.6	Germany\|Dresden
#186	Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA)	50,900	63.6	France\|Saint-Martin-d’Heres
#186	University of California Riverside	24,600	63.6	United States\|Riverside
#186	University of Wollongong	19,200	63.6	Australia\|Wollongong
#191	University of Waterloo	34,400	63.5	Canada\|Waterloo
#192	Macquarie University	30,600	63.4	Australia\|North Ryde
#192	University of Wurzburg	N/A	63.4	Germany\|Wurzburg
#194	Northeastern University	21,300	63.3	United States\|Boston
#194	Universite de Montpellier	40,200	63.3	France\|Montpellier
#196	Harbin Institute of Technology	N/A	63.2	China\|Harbin
#196	Pompeu Fabra University	12,000	63.2	Spain\|Barcelona
#196	Tongji University	30,200	63.2	China\|Shanghai
#199	RWTH Aachen University	39,800	63	Germany\|Aachen
#199	Swinburne University of Technology	15,400	63	Australia\|Hawthorn
#199	University of Bergen	15,300	63	Norway\|Bergen
#202	Universidade de Lisboa	48,500	62.9	Portugal\|Lisbon
#203	Griffith University	35,900	62.8	Australia\|Nathan
#203	National Taiwan University	25,300	62.8	Taiwan\|Taipei
#203	University of Cincinnati	N/A	62.8	United States\|Cincinnati
#206	Medical University of Vienna	7,300	62.7	Austria\|Vienna
#206	State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook	25,900	62.7	United States\|Stony Brook
#208	University of Vienna	N/A	62.6	Austria\|Vienna
#209	Central South University	56,400	62.5	China\|Changsha
#209	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)	32,700	62.5	Australia\|Melbourne (Australia)
#209	University of Turin	58,500	62.5	Italy\|Turin
#212	University of Valencia	50,600	62.4	Spain\|Valencia
#213	King Saud University	34,000	62.3	Saudi Arabia\|Riyadh
#213	Southern University of Science & Technology	N/A	62.3	China\|Shenzhen
#215	Trinity College Dublin	17,800	62.2	Ireland\|Dublin
#215	University of Ottawa	36,700	62.2	Canada\|Ottawa
#217	Deakin University	43,100	62.1	Australia\|Burwood
#217	University of Leicester	N/A	62.1	United Kingdom\|Leicester
#219	South China University of Technology	40,100	61.9	China\|Guangzhou
#219	University of Munster	28,100	61.9	Germany\|Munster
#219	University of Pisa	34,500	61.9	Italy\|Pisa
#219	Xi’an Jiaotong University	45,000	61.9	China\|Xi’an
#223	Ton Duc Thang University	N/A	61.8	Vietnam\|Ho Chi Minh City
#223	University of Antwerp	15,900	61.8	Belgium\|Antwerp
#225	University of Tennessee Knoxville	27,400	61.7	United States\|Knoxville
#226	Charles University Prague	49,800	61.6	Czech Republic\|Prague
#226	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	22,700	61.6	Germany\|Karlsruhe
#226	Universite Libre de Bruxelles	28,300	61.6	Belgium\|Brussels
#226	Universiti Malaya	18,400	61.6	Malaysia\|Kuala Lumpur
#230	North Carolina State University	31,600	61.5	United States\|Raleigh
#231	Autonomous University of Madrid	29,400	61.4	Spain\|Madrid
#231	University of Electronic Science & Technology of China	35,300	61.4	China\|Chengdu
#231	University of Newcastle	N/A	61.4	Australia\|Callaghan
#234	Southeast University – China	37,500	61.3	China\|Nanjing
#234	Western Sydney University	36,100	61.3	Australia\|Penrith
#236	Goethe University Frankfurt	N/A	61.2	Germany\|Frankfurt am Main
#236	London School Economics & Political Science	11,400	61.2	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)
#236	University College Dublin	23,400	61.2	Ireland\|Dublin
#239	Tufts University	11,400	61.1	United States\|Medford
#240	Royal Institute of Technology	N/A	61	Sweden\|Stockholm
#241	Florida State University	39,400	60.9	United States\|Tallahassee
#241	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	16,400	60.9	Israel\|Jerusalem
#241	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	N/A	60.9	Germany\|Mainz
#244	Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)	N/A	60.8	France\|Paris
#244	University of Cologne	N/A	60.8	Germany\|Koln
#244	University of Witwatersrand	26,900	60.8	South Africa\|Johannesburg
#247	Universidade do Porto	33,500	60.7	Portugal\|Porto
#247	University of Otago	18,600	60.7	New Zealand\|Dunedin
#247	Xiamen University	N/A	60.7	China\|Xiamen
#250	National & Kapodistrian University of Athens	N/A	60.6	Greece\|Athens (Greece)
#250	University of Florence	N/A	60.6	Italy\|Florence
#250	University of Illinois Chicago	N/A	60.6	United States\|Chicago
#253	Beihang University	N/A	60.5	China\|Beijing
#253	University of Miami	17,100	60.5	United States\|Coral Gables
#253	University of Oregon	N/A	60.5	United States\|Eugene
#256	Nankai University	31,400	60.3	China\|Nankai
#256	University of Erlangen Nuremberg	33,800	60.3	Germany\|Erlangen
#256	University of Tartu	N/A	60.3	Estonia\|Tartu
#256	University of Trento	N/A	60.3	Italy\|Trento
#260	Tianjin University	N/A	60.2	China\|Tianjin
#261	Dartmouth College	6,500	60.1	United States\|Hanover
#261	University of Southern Denmark	N/A	60.1	Denmark\|Odense
#263	Iowa State University	N/A	60	United States\|Ames
#263	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	23,400	60	South Korea\|Seoul
#265	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	36,600	59.9	United States\|Blacksburg
#265	Yeshiva University	N/A	59.9	United States\|New York City
#267	Aalborg University	16,900	59.8	Denmark\|Aalborg
#267	Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)	37,800	59.8	Norway\|Trondheim
#269	Beijing Normal University	N/A	59.7	China\|Beijing
#269	University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	N/A	59.7	United States\|Houston
#271	George Washington University	22,300	59.6	United States\|Washington, D.C.
#271	Shenzhen University	38,300	59.6	China\|Shenzhen
#273	Aalto University	13,400	59.5	Finland\|Esbo
#273	University of Milano-Bicocca	N/A	59.5	Italy\|Milan
#273	University of Tasmania	18,300	59.5	Australia\|Hobart
#276	Colorado State University	29,400	59.4	United States\|Fort Collins
#277	Durham University	18,800	59.3	United Kingdom\|Durham (U.K.)
#277	Universite de Strasbourg	N/A	59.3	France\|Strasbourg
#277	University of Aberdeen	13,100	59.3	United Kingdom\|Aberdeen
#280	University of Kiel	N/A	59.2	Germany\|Kiel
#280	University of York – UK	18,000	59.2	United Kingdom\|York
#282	China University of Geosciences	N/A	59.1	China\|Wuhan
#282	International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)	N/A	59.1	Italy\|Trieste
#282	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)	10,000	59.1	South Korea\|Daejeon
#282	Universite Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier	N/A	59.1	France\|Toulouse
#286	Osaka University	22,500	59	Japan\|Suita
#286	State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo	27,400	59	United States\|Buffalo
#286	Tohoku University	17,900	59	Japan\|Sendai
#286	University of Maryland Baltimore	N/A	59	United States\|Baltimore
#290	Korea University	N/A	58.9	South Korea\|Seoul
#290	Universite de Bordeaux	53,800	58.9	France\|Talence
#292	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	14,300	58.8	Belgium\|Elsene
#292	Yonsei University	N/A	58.8	South Korea\|Seoul
#294	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	31,200	58.7	Brazil\|Campinas
#295	Queens University Belfast	20,200	58.6	United Kingdom\|Belfast
#295	University of Pavia	N/A	58.6	Italy\|Pavia
#297	Polytechnic University of Milan	N/A	58.5	Italy\|Milan
#298	Beijing Institute of Technology	N/A	58.4	China\|Beijing
#299	Oregon State University	N/A	58.3	United States\|Corvallis
#300	University of Duisburg Essen	N/A	58.2	Germany\|Essen
#300	University of Genoa	20,300	58.2	Italy\|Genoa
#300	University of Rome Tor Vergata	N/A	58.2	Italy\|Rome
#300	Western University (University of Western Ontario)	N/A	58.2	Canada\|London (Canada)

Source:

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/slideshows/us-news-best-global-universities

How U.S. News Calculated the 2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings

The overall Best Global Universities ranking encompasses 2,000 top institutions, up from 1,750 last year, spread across 95 countries, up from 90 last year.

The first step

to create a pool of 2,011 universities that was used to rank the top 2,000 schools – First included the top 250 universities in the results of Clarivate’s global reputation survey, then added any other institutions that met the minimum threshold of at least 1,250 papers published from 2016 to 2020.

The second step

to calculate the rankings using the 13 indicators and weights that U.S. News chose to measure global research performance.

RANKING INDICATOR	WEIGHT
Global research reputation	12.5%
Number of publications that are among the 10% most cited	12.5%
Regional research reputation	12.5%
Normalized citation impact	10.0%
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited	10.0%
Publications	10.0%
Total citations	7.5%
International collaboration	5.0%
International collaboration – relative to country	5.0%
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1% most cited in their respective field	5.0%
Percentage of total publications that are among the top 1% most highly cited papers	5.0%
Books	2.5%
Conferences	2.5%

Methodology – details

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/methodology

@— last year

Like last year, Harvard University in Massachusetts claimed the top spot in the general Best Global Universities ranking. The top 10 schools this year were the same as last year; however, the order of some schools changed. The University of Washington in Seattle rose from No. 8 to No. 7, the University of Cambridge in England jumped from No. 9 to No. 8 and California Institute of Technology fell from No. 7 to a tie at No. 9.

Pursuing a college or graduate degree at a school outside one’s home country is not uncommon. A report released this September by OECD, an international economic policy organization with 38 member countries, reveals that a significant proportion of university students in OECD nations came from abroad in 2019. The representation of international students in the average OECD country was 9% at the undergraduate level, 21% at the master’s level and 29% at the doctoral level.

Attending a university on foreign soil can be great for someone with an adventurous spirit – especially if he or she loves to travel, appreciates a variety of world cultures and hopes to gain fluency in a language besides his or her native tongue. That said, those who are seriously considering a faraway school should consider whether the school is in a location where they can imagine themselves feeling happy without the nearby support of close family and friends.

Prospective students who want to earn a degree from a high-quality, world-famous school outside their own nation may refer to the latest edition of the U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings, released on Oct. 26, 2021. Refer to the tables below.

Also like last year, eight of the top 10 global universities are in the United States while two are in the United Kingdom. The highest-ranking U.K. school is the University of Oxford, which held at fifth place.

Among the countries with ranked global universities in the overall ranking, the U.S. had by far the most, per usual, with 271 schools on the list – 16 more than last year. China had the second-highest number of schools, which was also true last year, but this time 253 Chinese universities made the cut – 77 more than before.

Potential international students who want to study within a particular country, region or continent can consult one of the U.S. News geographic rankings, which spell out which schools within that area performed best in the general Best Global Universities ranking.

The top schools in the regional rankings for areas outside the U.S. — such as Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America or Africa — are all the same this year as last year. Within the Asia ranking, Tsinghua University of Beijing is No. 1, while the University of Cape Town claimed that honor for the Africa ranking. The University of Melbourne is the front-runner in the Australia and New Zealand ranking, and the Universidade de São Paulo leads the Latin America ranking. First place in Europe goes to the University of Oxford.

Future overseas students who know which topic they wish to study can consult the most relevant U.S. News subject rankings. These 43 rankings evaluate the quality of a school’s research within a particular field of study, such as microbiology.

This year, U.S. News also introduced five new subject rankings: condensed matter physics, food science and technology, optics, physical chemistry and polymer science.

* A total of 15,650 universities earned spots in the 43 Best Global Universities subject rankings — a number 22.8% higher than in the prior year. Among the schools that achieved a subject ranking, 14.5% are in China, and 20.7% are in the U.S. Only one academic institution in the world made the cut for all of the 43 subject rankings: Monash University in Australia.

Source: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

The list.

Rank	University	Enrollment	Location	Score
1	Harvard University	21,600	United States\|Cambridge (U.S.)	100
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11,500	United States\|Cambridge (U.S.)	97.5
3	Stanford University	16,300	United States\|Stanford	95.6
4	University of California–Berkeley	40,300	United States\|Berkeley	89.4
5	University of Oxford	N/A	United Kingdom\|Oxford	87.1
6	Columbia University	22,800	United States\|New York City	86.7
7	University of Washington	47,600	United States\|Seattle	86.5
8	University of Cambridge	N/A	United Kingdom\|Cambridge (U.K.)	86.1
9	California Institute of Technology	2,200	United States\|Pasadena	85.5
9	Johns Hopkins University	16,600	United States\|Baltimore	85.5
11	University of California–San Francisco	N/A	United States\|San Francisco	85.4
12	Yale University	13,300	United States\|New Haven	85.2
13	University of Pennsylvania	21,200	United States\|Philadelphia	84.8
14	University of California–Los Angeles	42,900	United States\|Los Angeles	84.7
15	University of Chicago	14,900	United States\|Chicago	84.5
16	Princeton University	N/A	United States\|Princeton	84.2
16	University College London	35,900	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	84.2
16	University of Toronto	75,800	Canada\|Toronto	84.2
19	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor	44,700	United States\|Ann Arbor	84.1
20	Imperial College London	17,600	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	84
21	University of California–San Diego	36,300	United States\|La Jolla	83.8
22	Cornell University	23,600	United States\|Ithaca	82.7
23	Duke University	N/A	United States\|Durham (North Carolina, U.S.)	82.1
24	Northwestern University	N/A	United States\|Evanston	81.7
25	University of Melbourne	N/A	Australia\|Parkville	80.8
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	19,900	Switzerland\|Zurich	80.1
26	Tsinghua University	38,200	China\|Beijing	80.1
28	University of Sydney	49,200	Australia\|Sydney	80
29	National University of Singapore	31,800	Singapore\|Singapore	79.1
30	New York University	45,400	United States\|New York City	78.9
31	Washington University in St. Louis	14,500	United States\|St. Louis	78.6
32	University of Edinburgh	N/A	United Kingdom\|Edinburgh	78.5
33	King’s College London	28,500	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	78.3
33	Nanyang Technological University	24,000	Singapore\|Singapore	78.3
35	University of British Columbia	56,900	Canada\|Vancouver	78.2
36	University of Queensland Australia	41,900	Australia\|Brisbane	77.8
37	University of Copenhagen	N/A	Denmark\|Copenhagen	77.6
38	University of Amsterdam	N/A	Netherlands\|Amsterdam	77.5
39	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill	31,000	United States\|Chapel Hill	77.4
40	Monash University	60,200	Australia\|Clayton	77
41	University of New South Wales	48,100	Australia\|Kensington	76.8
42	University of Pittsburgh	26,800	United States\|Pittsburgh	76.7
43	University of Texas–Austin	N/A	United States\|Austin	76.5
44	King Abdulaziz University	N/A	Saudi Arabia\|Jeddah	76.3
45	Peking University	31,600	China\|Beijing	76.2
46	University of Munich	N/A	Germany\|Munich	76.1
46	Sorbonne Universite	42,300	France\|Paris	76.1
48	Karolinska Institute	7,900	Sweden\|Stockholm	76
48	Utrecht University	31,000	Netherlands\|Utrecht	76
48	Catholic University of Leuven	46,300	Belgium\|Leuven	76
51	McGill University	31,600	Canada\|Montreal	75.9
52	University of Wisconsin–Madison	39,800	United States\|Madison	75.8
52	Ohio State University–Columbus	55,800	United States\|Columbus	75.8
54	Heidelberg University	19,500	Germany\|Heidelberg	75.7
55	University of Minnesota–Twin Cities	45,200	United States\|Minneapolis	75.5
56	Australian National University	18,900	Australia\|Canberra	75.1
57	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	N/A	United States\|New York City	74.9
58	Georgia Institute of Technology	27,800	United States\|Atlanta	74.8
58	University of Manchester	N/A	United Kingdom\|Manchester	74.8
60	University of Maryland–College Park	34,000	United States\|College Park	74.7
60	Universite Paris Saclay	N/A	France\|Saint-Aubin	74.7
62	University of Colorado–Boulder	35,500	United States\|Boulder	74.6
62	Erasmus University Rotterdam	N/A	Netherlands\|Rotterdam	74.6
64	University of Zurich	24,000	Switzerland\|Zurich	74.5
65	Boston University	27,800	United States\|Boston	74.4
66	University of Adelaide	22,100	Australia\|Adelaide	74.2
67	University of California–Santa Barbara	25,600	United States\|Santa Barbara	74
67	University of California–Davis	N/A	United States\|Davis	74
67	Université de Paris	62,400	France\|Paris	74
70	University of Southern California	42,500	United States\|Los Angeles	73.9
70	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne	11,300	Switzerland\|Lausanne	73.9
72	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign	47,200	United States\|Champaign	73.8
73	Vanderbilt University	12,400	United States\|Nashville	73.7
74	Emory University	13,200	United States\|Atlanta	73.6
74	Technical University of Munich	32,700	Germany\|Munich	73.6
76	University of Hong Kong	18,000	Hong Kong\|Pok Fu Lam	73.4
77	University of Tokyo	26,000	Japan\|Tokyo	73.3
78	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	33,900	Germany\|Berlin	73.2
78	University of Western Australia	18,700	Australia\|Crawley	73.2
80	Pennsylvania State University–University Park	46,500	United States\|University Park	73
80	Wageningen University and Research Center	14,900	Netherlands\|Wageningen	73
82	Leiden University	N/A	Netherlands\|Leiden	72.9
82	Chinese University Hong Kong	18,500	Hong Kong\|Shatin	72.9
84	University of Glasgow	N/A	United Kingdom\|Glasgow	72.8
84	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	N/A	Netherlands\|Amsterdam	72.8
86	University of California–Irvine	35,900	United States\|Irvine	72.7
87	University of Barcelona	45,400	Spain\|Barcelona	72.5
88	University of Groningen	29,400	Netherlands\|Groningen	72.3
89	Rockefeller University	200	United States\|New York City	72.2
90	University of Oslo	N/A	Norway\|Oslo	72
91	University of Birmingham	32,100	United Kingdom\|Birmingham (U.K.)	71.9
92	University of Bristol	N/A	United Kingdom\|Bristol	71.8
92	Ghent University	39,000	Belgium\|Gent	71.8
94	University of Helsinki	N/A	Finland\|Helsinki	71.5
95	Lund University	28,500	Sweden\|Lund	71
95	Freie Universität Berlin	37,000	Germany\|Berlin	71
97	University of Southampton	N/A	United Kingdom\|Southampton	70.9
97	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	N/A	Saudi Arabia\|Thuwal	70.9
99	University of Arizona	39,600	United States\|Tucson	70.8
99	University of Florida	47,000	United States\|Gainesville	70.8

101	University of Geneva	N/A	Switzerland\|Geneva	70.7
102	Carnegie Mellon University	N/A	United States\|Pittsburgh	70.6
103	University of California–Santa Cruz	19,700	United States\|Santa Cruz	70.5
103	Aarhus University	26,500	Denmark\|Aarhus	70.5
105	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	10,100	Hong Kong\|Hong Kong	70.3
105	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	36,600	China\|Shanghai	70.3
107	Radboud University Nijmegen	21,800	Netherlands\|Nijmegen	70.2
108	Michigan State University	46,800	United States\|East Lansing	70.1
109	University of Cape Town	21,800	South Africa\|Cape Town	70
110	University of Virginia	N/A	United States\|Charlottesville	69.9
110	Queen Mary, University of London	N/A	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	69.9
110	University of Science and Technology of China	16,700	China\|Hefei	69.9
113	Uppsala University	N/A	Sweden\|Uppsala	69.8
114	University of Bern	11,600	Switzerland\|Bern	69.7
115	Zhejiang University	40,400	China\|Hangzhou	69.6
115	Universidade de São Paulo	82,300	Brazil\|Sao Paulo	69.6
117	University of Bologna	N/A	Italy\|Bologna	69.5
118	University of Auckland	33,000	New Zealand\|Auckland	69.2
119	Brown University	9,900	United States\|Providence	69.1
119	University of Padua	48,700	Italy\|Padua	69.1
119	University of Bonn	27,700	Germany\|Bonn	69.1
122	Weizmann Institute of Science	N/A	Israel\|Rehovot	68.9
123	Stockholm University	N/A	Sweden\|Stockholm	68.8
124	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas	N/A	United States\|Dallas	68.7
124	Sapienza University of Rome	79,500	Italy\|Rome	68.7
124	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	22,000	Hong Kong\|Kowloon	68.7
127	Purdue University–West Lafayette	N/A	United States\|West Lafayette	68.6
127	Kyoto University	N/A	Japan\|Kyoto	68.6
127	University of Technology Sydney	N/A	Australia\|Ultimo	68.6
130	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick	45,200	United States\|Piscataway Township	68.5
130	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	N/A	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	68.5
130	Seoul National University	N/A	South Korea\|Seoul	68.5
133	McMaster University	N/A	Canada\|Hamilton	68.4
134	University of Gothenburg	19,900	Sweden\|Gothenburg	68.3
135	Baylor College of Medicine	N/A	United States\|Houston	68.2
135	University of Sheffield	27,700	United Kingdom\|Sheffield	68.2
135	University of Basel	N/A	Switzerland\|Basel	68.2
135	Nanjing University	37,100	China\|Nanjing	68.2
135	University of Alberta	N/A	Canada\|Edmonton	68.2
140	Texas A&M University–College Station	62,800	United States\|College Station	68.1
141	Indiana University–Bloomington	N/A	United States\|Bloomington	67.9
141	City University Hong Kong	9,500	Hong Kong\|Kowloon	67.9
141	Fudan University	33,100	China\|Shanghai	67.9
144	Case Western Reserve University	10,900	United States\|Cleveland	67.7
144	University of Warwick	23,400	United Kingdom\|Coventry	67.7
144	Autonomous University of Barcelona	31,600	Spain\|Barcelona	67.7
147	University of Alabama–Birmingham	N/A	United States\|Birmingham (U.S.)	67.4
148	University of Massachusetts–Amherst	N/A	United States\|Amherst	67.3
149	University of Leeds	N/A	United Kingdom\|Leeds	67.2
149	University of Göttingen	30,600	Germany\|Gottingen	67.2
151	University of Utah	30,800	United States\|Salt Lake City	67.1
151	Oregon Health and Science University	N/A	United States\|Portland	67.1
151	University of Nottingham	N/A	United Kingdom\|Nottingham	67.1
151	University of Montreal	36,500	Canada\|Montreal	67.1
155	University of Liverpool	26,900	United Kingdom\|Liverpool	67
156	Newcastle University	26,000	United Kingdom\|Newcastle upon Tyne	66.9
156	University of Hamburg	31,000	Germany\|Hamburg	66.9
156	Curtin University	30,200	Australia\|Bentley	66.9
159	Sun Yat-sen University	56,800	China\|Guangzhou	66.8
159	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	N/A	China\|Beijing	66.8
161	University of Rochester	10,200	United States\|Rochester	66.7
161	Technical University of Denmark	9,300	Denmark\|Kongens Lyngby	66.7
163	University of Exeter	23,600	United Kingdom\|Exeter	66.5
163	University of Sussex	17,500	United Kingdom\|Brighton	66.5
165	Arizona State University–Tempe	48,300	United States\|Tempe	66.4
166	Cardiff University	N/A	United Kingdom\|Cardiff	66.3
167	Rice University	6,900	United States\|Houston	66.2
167	University Catholique of Louvain	26,400	Belgium\|Louvain-la-Neuve	66.2
169	University of California–Riverside	23,200	United States\|Riverside	65.9
169	University of Milan	N/A	Italy\|Milan	65.9
169	University of Calgary	33,100	Canada\|Calgary	65.9
172	Tel Aviv University	22,800	Israel\|Tel Aviv	65.8
172	University of Freiburg	N/A	Germany\|Freiburg	65.8
174	University of Iowa	29,600	United States\|Iowa City	65.7
174	Delft University of Technology	N/A	Netherlands\|Delft	65.7
176	Northeastern University	20,900	United States\|Boston	65.5
176	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	N/A	United States\|Aurora	65.5
176	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	56,700	China\|Wuhan	65.5
176	Queensland University of Technology	38,400	Australia\|Brisbane	65.5
180	Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen	N/A	Germany\|Tubingen	65.3
180	Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA)	50,700	France\|Saint-Martin-d’Heres	65.3
180	University of Aix-Marseille	69,900	France\|Marseille	65.3
183	University of Bergen	14,300	Norway\|Bergen	65.2
184	University of Lausanne	13,000	Switzerland\|Lausanne	65.1
185	University of Würzburg	N/A	Germany\|Wurzburg	65
185	Technical University of Dresden	31,100	Germany\|Dresden	65
187	Lancaster University	N/A	United Kingdom\|Lancaster	64.8
188	Pompeu Fabra University	11,900	Spain\|Barcelona	64.7
188	University of Naples Federico II	N/A	Italy\|Naples	64.7
190	Maastricht University	N/A	Netherlands\|Maastricht	64.6
191	University of Cincinnati	N/A	United States\|Cincinnati	64.4
192	National Taiwan University	24,800	Taiwan\|Taipei	64.3
192	RWTH Aachen University	45,600	Germany\|Aachen	64.3
192	University of Montpellier	39,900	France\|Montpellier	64.3
195	Stony Brook University–SUNY	25,300	United States\|Stony Brook	64.2
195	Hunan University	40,200	China\|Changsha	64.2
197	University of Lisbon	49,200	Portugal\|Lisbon	64.1
198	Tufts University	11,200	United States\|Medford	64
199	University of Waterloo	33,600	Canada\|Waterloo	63.9
199	University of Ottawa	35,800	Canada\|Ottawa	63.9
201	University of Vienna	N/A	Austria\|Vienna	63.8
201	Griffith University	35,000	Australia\|Nathan	63.8
203	University of Pisa	33,800	Italy\|Pisa	63.7
203	Harbin Institute of Technology	31,200	China\|Harbin	63.7
203	Medical University of Vienna	7,200	Austria\|Vienna	63.7
203	University of Wollongong	19,700	Australia\|Wollongong	63.7
207	Macquarie University	30,200	Australia\|North Ryde	63.6
208	Autonomous University of Madrid	29,800	Spain\|Madrid	63.5
209	University of Turin	57,600	Italy\|Turin	63.4
209	Wuhan University	54,400	China\|Wuhan	63.4
211	University of Malaya	17,400	Malaysia\|Kuala Lumpur	63.3
212	University of Leicester	N/A	United Kingdom\|Leicester	63.2
212	Royal Institute of Technology	13,400	Sweden\|Stockholm	63.2
212	University of Valencia	50,600	Spain\|Valencia	63.2
212	University of Witwatersrand	26,900	South Africa\|Johannesburg	63.2
216	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	25,900	Germany\|Karlsruhe	63.1
216	Université Libre de Bruxelles	25,700	Belgium\|Brussels	63.1
218	University of Tennessee	26,700	United States\|Knoxville	63
218	Charles University in Prague	47,200	Czech Republic\|Prague	63
218	University of Antwerp	15,300	Belgium\|Antwerp	63
218	Deakin University	42,700	Australia\|Burwood	63
222	Trinity College Dublin	N/A	Ireland\|Dublin	62.9
223	Florida State University	N/A	United States\|Tallahassee	62.8
224	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	16,300	Israel\|Jerusalem	62.7
224	Tongji University	30,500	China\|Shanghai	62.7
226	Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main	45,200	Germany\|Frankfurt am Main	62.6
227	North Carolina State University–Raleigh	30,900	United States\|Raleigh	62.5
227	University of Illinois–Chicago	N/A	United States\|Chicago	62.5
227	University of Münster	28,500	Germany\|Munster	62.5
230	London School of Economics and Political Science	11,000	United Kingdom\|London (U.K.)	62.4
230	Sungkyunkwan University	23,100	South Korea\|Seoul	62.4
230	University of Otago	18,700	New Zealand\|Dunedin	62.4
230	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	N/A	Germany\|Mainz	62.4
230	University of Cologne	N/A	Germany\|Koln	62.4
230	University of Newcastle	N/A	Australia\|Callaghan	62.4
236	Central South University	54,900	China\|Changsha	62.3
237	Iowa State University	N/A	United States\|Ames	62.1
237	University of Trento	N/A	Italy\|Trento	62.1
237	University of Erlangen Nuremberg	36,000	Germany\|Erlangen	62.1
240	University of Florence	N/A	Italy\|Florence	62
241	University of Miami	16,500	United States\|Coral Gables	61.9
241	Aalborg University	16,100	Denmark\|Aalborg	61.9
241	Swinburne University of Technology	16,200	Australia\|Hawthorn	61.9
244	University of Oregon	N/A	United States\|Eugene	61.8
244	University College Dublin	23,100	Ireland\|Dublin	61.8
244	RMIT University	32,700	Australia\|Melbourne (Australia)	61.8
247	George Washington University	23,400	United States\|Washington, D.C.	61.7
247	Dartmouth College	6,400	United States\|Hanover	61.7
247	Western Sydney University	35,800	Australia\|Penrith	61.7
250	Yeshiva University	N/A	United States\|New York City	61.4
250	Virginia Tech	35,000	United States\|Blacksburg	61.4
250	South China University of Technology	41,100	China\|Guangzhou	61.4
253	University of Aberdeen	N/A	United Kingdom\|Aberdeen	61.3
253	University of Strasbourg	N/A	France\|Strasbourg	61.3
255	University of Porto	33,100	Portugal\|Porto	61.2
255	University of Tartu	9,100	Estonia\|Tartu	61.2
255	University of Southern Denmark	N/A	Denmark\|Odense	61.2
255	Xi’an Jiaotong University	38,900	China\|Xi’an	61.2
255	Southeast University	35,200	China\|Nanjing	61.2
260	University of York	N/A	United Kingdom\|York	61.1
260	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	N/A	Greece\|Athens (Greece)	61.1
262	University of Kiel	N/A	Germany\|Kiel	60.9
263	Durham University	N/A	United Kingdom\|Durham (U.K.)	60.8
263	Osaka University	23,000	Japan\|Suita	60.8
263	École Normale Superieure, Paris	N/A	France\|Paris	60.8
266	University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston	N/A	United States\|Houston	60.7
266	Colorado State University	26,500	United States\|Fort Collins	60.7
266	University of Maryland–Baltimore	N/A	United States\|Baltimore	60.7
266	King Saud University	35,000	Saudi Arabia\|Riyadh	60.7
266	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	37,100	Norway\|Trondheim	60.7
266	Beihang University	30,800	China\|Beijing	60.7
272	Korea University	N/A	South Korea\|Seoul	60.6
272	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	36,600	China\|Chengdu	60.6
274	Universite de Bordeaux	54,300	France\|Talence	60.5
275	Tohoku University	17,900	Japan\|Sendai	60.4
275	Aalto University	12,800	Finland\|Esbo	60.4
275	State University of Campinas	29,500	Brazil\|Campinas	60.4
278	University of Genoa	N/A	Italy\|Genoa	60.3
278	Xiamen University	42,100	China\|Xiamen	60.3
280	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	9,500	South Korea\|Daejeon	60.2

US News and World Report – Best Global Universities 2022

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