World's Top 100 Universities

Looking for world's top universities? Following is a list of world's 100 top universities ranked by QS World University Ranking during 2021. One of the most reliable rankings for top universities in the world is the QS World University Rankings®. For 2021 top university ranking, they evaluated over 5,500 universities from 80 locations across the world.

World's Top University List

Below is a list of top 100 universities in the world based on QS World University Ranking for 2021.

#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
#2 Stanford University, Stanford, United States
#3 Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
#4 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
#5 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
#6 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
#7 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
#8 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
#9 University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
#10 University College London, London, United Kingdom
#11 National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
#12 Princeton University, Princeton, United States
#13 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
#14 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
#15 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
#16 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
#17 Yale University, New Haven, United States
#18 Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
#19 Columbia University in New York, New York City, United States
#20 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
#21 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
#22 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#23 Peking University, Beijing, China
#24 University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
#25 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
#25 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
#27 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#27 The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
#29 Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
#30 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
#31 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
#31 Kings College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
#31 McGill University, Montreal, Canada
#34 Fudan University, Shanghai, China
#35 New York University, New York City, United States
#36 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
#37 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
#38 Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
#39 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Yuseong-gu, South Korea
#40 The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
#41 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
#42 Duke University, Durham, United States
#43 Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
#44 The University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
#45 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
#46 The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
#47 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
#48 City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
#49 London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
#50 Technical University of Munich, München, Germany
#51 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
#52 Paris Sciences et Lettres University, Paris, France
#53 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
#54 University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States
#55 Monash University, Clayton, Australia
#56 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Japan
#57 Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
#58 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
#59 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
#60 Brown University, Providence, United States
#61 École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
#61 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
#62 The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
#63 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, München, Germany
#64 University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
#65 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
#66 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
#66 University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
#69 Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
#71 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
#72 Osaka University, Suita, Japan
#72 University of Washington, Seattle, United States
#74 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
#75 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
#76 University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
#77 Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
#77 University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
#79 Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
#80 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
#81 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
#82 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States
#83 Sorbonne University, Paris, France
#84 Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
#85 Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
#86 Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
#87 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
#88 Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
#89 Rice University, Houston, United States
#90 University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
#91 University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
#92 The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
#93 The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
#93 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
#95 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
#96 University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
#97 Lund University, Lund, Sweden
#98 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
#99 The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
#100 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
#101 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States

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