Top 100 Universities in the World 2023
Want to study at one of the best universities in the world? If yes, then we have compiled a complete rundown of the top 100 universities in the world.
This ranking is according to the QS World universities rankings. Majority of the universities that made the top 100 are located in the United States while others are located in the United Kingdom.
Attending any of these universities will help you pursue specialized programs and make finding a job easier. Below are the world’s top 100 universities.
Top Universities in the World
Top 100 Universities in the World According to the QS World University Rankings |
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Rank | University | Location |
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
3 | Stanford University | United States |
4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
5 | Harvard University | United States |
6 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
7 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
8 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
9 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland |
10 | University of Chicago | United States |
11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
12 | Peking University | Mainland China |
13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
14 | Tsinghua University | Mainland China |
15 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
16 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
17 | Princeton University | United States |
18 | Yale University | United States |
19 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
20 | Cornell University | United States |
21 | University of Hong Kong (UKU) | Hong Kong SAR |
22 | Columbia University | United States |
23 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
24 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
25 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
26 | Universite PSL | France |
27 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
28 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
29 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
30 | Australian National University | Australia |
31 | McGill University | Canada |
32 | Northwestern University | United States |
33 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
34 | Fudan University | Mainland China |
35 | University of Toronto | Canada |
36 | Kyoto University | Japan |
37 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
38 | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong SAR |
39 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
40 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong SAR |
41 | University of Sydney | Australia |
42 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
43 | Zhejiang University | Mainland China |
44 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
45 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
46 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Mainland China |
47 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
48 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | France |
49 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
50 | Duke University | United States |
51 | University of Queensland | Australia |
52 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
53 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
54 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR |
55 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
56 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
57 | Monash University | Australia |
58 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
59 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
60 | Sorbonne University | France |
61 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
62 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
63 | Brown University | United States |
64 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
65 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg | Germany |
66 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR |
67 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
68 | Osaka University | Japan |
69 | Universit Paris-Saclay | France |
70 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
71 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
72 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
73 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
74 | Korea University | South Korea |
75 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
76 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
77 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
78 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
79 | Tohoku University | Japan |
80 | University of Washington | United States |
81 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
82 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
83 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
84 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
85 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
86 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
87 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
88 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
89 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
90 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
91 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
92 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
93 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
94 | University of Science and Technology of China | Mainland China |
95 | Lund University | Sweden |
96 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
97 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
98 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland |
99 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
100 | Rice University | United States |