Top University of the Word – University Ranking

The world raking of top 500 universities of the world –

World Rank Name of the University Country
1 Harvard University USA
2 Stanford University USA
3 University of Cambridge UK
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
5 University of California, Berkeley USA
6 Princeton University USA
7 University of Oxford UK
8 Columbia University USA
9 California Institute of Technology USA
10 University of Chicago USA
11 Yale University USA
12 University of California, Los Angeles USA
13 University of Washington USA
14 Cornell University USA
15 University of California, San Diego USA
16 University College London UK
17 University of Pennsylvania USA
18 Johns Hopkins University USA
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
20 Washington University in St. Louis USA
21 University of California, San Francisco USA
22 Northwestern University USA
23 University of Toronto Canada
24 The University of Tokyo Japan
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor USA
26 Duke University USA
27 Imperial College London UK
28 University of Wisconsin – Madison USA
29 New York University USA
30 University of Copenhagen Denmark
31 University of British Columbia Canada
32 The University of Edinburgh USA
33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA
34 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities USA
35 Kyoto University Japan
36 Rockefeller University USA
37 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA
38 The University of Manchester USA
39 The University of Melbourne USA
40 Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris 6 USA
41 University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) USA
42 Heidelberg University USA
43 University of Colorado at Boulder USA
44 Karolinska Institute USA
45 University of California, Santa Barbara USA
46 King’s College London USA
47 Utrecht University USA
48 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas USA
48 Tsinghua University USA
50 Technical University Munich USA
51 The University of Texas at Austin USA
52 Vanderbilt University USA
53 University of Maryland, College Park USA
54 University of Southern California USA
55 The University of Queensland USA
56 University of Helsinki USA
57 University of Munich USA
58 University of Zurich USA
59 University of Groningen USA
60 University of Geneva USA
61 University of Bristol USA
62 University of Oslo USA
63 Uppsala University USA
64 University of California, Irvine USA
65 Aarhus University USA
66 McMaster University USA
67 McGill University USA
68 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus USA
69 Ecole Normale Superieure – Paris USA
69 Ghent University USA
71 Mayo Medical School USA
71 Peking University USA
73 Erasmus University Rotterdam USA
74 Rice University USA
74 Stockholm University USA
76 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne USA
77 Purdue University – West Lafayette USA
78 Monash University USA
79 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick USA
80 Boston University USA
80 Carnegie Mellon University USA
80 The Ohio State University – Columbus USA
83 University of Sydney USA
84 Nagoya University USA
85 Georgia Institute of Technology USA
85 Pennsylvania State University – University Park USA
85 University of California, Davis USA
88 Leiden University USA
88 University of Florida USA
90 KU Leuven USA
91 National University of Singapore USA
91 The University of Western Australia USA
93 Moscow State University USA
93 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology USA
95 University of Basel USA
95 University of Goettingen USA
97 The Australian National University USA
98 University of California, Santa Cruz USA
99 Cardiff University USA
100 University of Arizona USA
101 Aix Marseille University France
102 Arizona State University USA
103 Baylor College of Medicine USA
104 Brown University USA
105 Case Western Reserve University USA
106 Catholic University of Louvain Belgium
107 Emory University USA
108 Fudan University China
109 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai USA
110 Indiana University Bloomington USA
111 King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia
112 King Saud University Saudi Arabia
113 Lund University Sweden
114 Michigan State University USA
115 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
116 Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU Norway
117 Osaka University Japan
118 Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands
119 Seoul National University South Korea
120 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
121 Texas A&M University USA
122 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
123 The University of Adelaide Australia
124 The University of Glasgow UK
125 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
126 The University of New South Wales Australia
127 The University of Sheffield UK
128 The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center USA
129 Tohoku University Japan
130 University of Alberta Canada
131 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
132 University of Bern Switzerland
133 University of Birmingham UK
134 University of Bonn Germany
135 University of Frankfurt Germany
136 University of Freiburg Germany
137 University of Leeds UK
138 University of Liverpool UK
139 University of Nottingham UK
140 University of Rochester USA
141 University of Science and Technology of China China
142 University of Southampton UK
143 University of Strasbourg France
144 University of Utah USA
145 University of Wageningen Netherlands
146 University of Warwick UK
147 University Paris Diderot – Paris 7 France
148 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
149 Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
150 Zhejiang University China
151 China Medical University (Taichung) Taiwan
152 Curtin University Australia
153 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
154 Harbin Institute of Technology China
155 Hokkaido University Japan
156 London School of Economics and Political Science UK
157 Macquarie University Australia
158 National Taiwan University Taiwan
159 Oregon State University USA
160 Queen Mary University of London UK
161 Sapienza University of Rome Italy
162 Sichuan University China
163 Sun Yat-sen University China
164 Technical University of Denmark Denmark
165 Tel Aviv University Israel
166 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
167 The University of Calgary Canada
168 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
169 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
170 TU Dresden Germany
171 Tufts University USA
172 Université Grenoble Alpes France
173 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium
174 University of Bordeaux France
175 University of California, Riverside USA
176 University of Delaware USA
177 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany
178 University of Exeter UK
179 University of Gothenburg Sweden
180 University of Hamburg Germany
181 University of Innsbruck Austria
182 University of Iowa USA
183 University of Kiel Germany
184 University of Lausanne Switzerland
185 University of Leipzig Germany
186 University of Lisbon Portugal
187 University of Massachusetts Amherst USA
188 University of Massachusetts Medical School – Worcester USA
189 University of Miami USA
190 University of Montreal Canada
191 University of Muenster Germany
192 University of Nebraska – Lincoln USA
193 University of Ottawa Canada
194 University of Padua Italy
195 University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5) France
196 University of Sao Paulo Brazil
197 University of Tuebingen Germany
198 University of Vienna Austria
199 University of Virginia USA
200 University of Wuerzburg Germany
201 Aalborg University Denmark
202 Beijing Normal University China
203 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
204 Charles University in Prague Czech
205 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
206 Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 France
207 Colorado State University USA
208 Dartmouth College USA
209 Deakin University Australia
210 Drexel University USA
211 Durham University UK
212 Ecole Normale Superieure – Lyon France
213 Florida State University USA
214 George Mason University USA
215 Georgetown University USA
216 Hanyang University South Korea
217 Huazhong University of Science and Technology China
218 Iowa State University USA
219 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany
220 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia
221 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea
222 Korea University South Korea
223 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
224 Kyushu University Japan
225 Linkoping University Sweden
226 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine uk
227 Maastricht University Netherlands
228 Medical University of South Carolina USA
229 Medical University of Vienna Austria
230 Nanjing University China
231 National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico
232 Newcastle University UK
233 North Carolina State University – Raleigh USA
234 Northeastern University (Boston) USA
235 Oregon Health and Science University USA
236 Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) France
237 Polytechnic Institute of Milan Italy
238 Pompeu Fabra University Spain
239 Queen’s University Canada
240 Queensland University of Technology Australia
241 RWTH Aachen University Germany
242 Soochow University (China) China
243 South China University of Technology China
244 Southeast University China
245 Stony Brook University USA
246 Sungkyunkwan University South Korea
247 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden
248 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
249 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
250 The University of Auckland Australia
251 The University of Dundee UK
252 The University of Georgia USA
253 The University of Reading UK
254 The University of Texas at Dallas USA
255 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio USA
256 University at Buffalo, the State University of New York USA
257 University of Aberdeen UK
258 University of Alabama at Birmingham USA
259 University of Antwerp Belgium
260 University of Barcelona Spain
261 University of Belgrade Serbia
262 University of Bergen Norway
263 University of Bochum Germany
264 University of Bologna Italy
265 University of Buenos Aires Argentina
266 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China
267 University of Granada Spain
268 University of Hawaii at Manoa USA
269 University of Houston USA
270 University of Illinois at Chicago USA
271 University of Jena Germany
272 University of Kansas USA
273 University of Cologne Germany
274 University of Lorraine France
275 University of Mainz Germany
276 University of Maryland, Baltimore USA
277 University of Milan Italy
278 University of Missouri – Columbia USA
279 University of Montpellier France
280 University of Notre Dame USA
281 University of Oregon USA
282 University of Pisa Italy
283 University of South Florida USA
284 University of Sussex UK
285 University of Tasmania Australia
286 University of Tennessee – Knoxville USA
287 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa
288 University of Tsukuba Japan
289 University of Turin Italy
290 University of Ulm USA
291 University of Waterloo Canada
292 University of Wollongong USA
293 University of York UK
294 Virginia Commonwealth University USA
295 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
296 Western University Canada
297 Wuhan University China
298 Xian Jiao Tong University China
299 Yeshiva University USA
300 Yonsei University South Korea
301 Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain
302 Autonomous University of Madrid Spain
303 Beihang University China
304 Boston College USA
305 Brandeis University USA
306 Brigham Young University USA
307 Capital Medical University China
308 Central South University China
309 Chang Gung University Taiwan
310 Chiba University Japan
311 China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) China
312 Complutense University of Madrid Spain
313 Dalhousie University Canada
314 Dalian University of Technology China
315 East China University of Science and Technology China
316 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands
317 ESPCI ParisTech France
318 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
319 Griffith University Australia
320 Hannover Medical School Germany
321 Hiroshima University Japan
322 Hunan University China
323 Indian Institute of Science India
324 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis USA
325 James Cook University Australia
326 Jilin University China
327 Keio University Japan
328 La Trobe University Australia
329 Lancaster University UK
330 Lanzhou University China
331 Laval University Canada
332 Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge USA
333 Nankai University China
334 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece
335 National Cheng Kung University Taiwan
336 National Chiao Tung University Taiwan
337 National Tsing Hua University USA
338 National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland
339 Ocean University of China China
340 Okayama University Japan
341 Paris Dauphine University (Paris 9) France
342 Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea
343 Queen’s University Belfast UK
344 Saint Louis University USA
345 Saint Petersburg State University Russia
346 Shandong University China
347 Swinburne University of Technology Australia
348 Temple University USA
349 The George Washington University USA
350 The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque USA
351 The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia
352 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston USA
353 Tianjin University China
354 Tongji University China
355 Umea University Sweden
356 UNESP brazil
357 University College Dublin Ireland
358 University of Cape Town South Africa
359 University of Central Florida USA
360 University of Chile Chile
361 University of Cincinnati USA
362 University of Colorado at Denver USA
363 University of Connecticut USA
364 University of Duesseldorf Germany
365 University of East Anglia UK
366 University of Eastern Finland Finland
367 University of Florence Italy
368 University of Guelph Canada
369 University of Halle-Wittenberg Germany
370 University of Kentucky USA
371 University of Leicester UK
372 University of Liege Belgium
373 University of Manitoba Canada
374 University of Milan – Bicocca Italy
375 University of Naples Federico II Italy
376 University of North Texas USA
377 University of Otago Australia
378 University of Pavia Italy
379 University of Porto Portugal
380 University of Roma – Tor Vergata Italy
381 University of Santiago Compostela Spain
382 University of Saskatchewan Canada
383 University of South Carolina – Columbia USA
384 University of Southern Denmark Denmark
385 University of St Andrews UK
386 University of Stuttgart Germany
387 University of Surrey UK
388 University of Tartu Estonia
389 University of Technology Sydney Australia
390 University of Tehran Iran
391 University of Toulouse 1 France
392 University of Twente Netherlands
393 University of Vermont USA
394 University of Victoria Canada
395 University of Warsaw Poland
396 University of Western Sydney Australia
397 Victoria University of Wellington Australia
398 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA
399 Wayne State University USA
400 Xiamen University China
401 Aalto University Finland
402 Amirkabir University of Technology Iran
403 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
404 Bangor University UK
405 Bar-Ilan University Israel
406 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel
407 Bielefeld University Germany
408 Brunel University UK
409 Cairo University Egypt
410 Catholic University of Chile Chile
411 China Agricultural University China
412 Chulalongkorn University Thailand
413 City University of New York City College USA
414 Concordia University Canada
415 East China Normal University China
416 Ecole Polytechnique France
417 Ewha Womans University South Korea
418 Federal University of Minas Gerais brazil
419 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul brazil
420 Flinders University Australia
421 Florida International University USA
422 Gyeongsang National University South Korea
423 Harbin Engineering University China
424 Heriot-Watt University UK
425 Huazhong Agricultural University China
426 Istanbul University Turkey
427 Jagiellonian University Poland
428 Kaohsiung Medical University Taiwan
429 Kent State University USA
430 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Saudi Arabia
431 Kobe University Japan
432 Kyung Hee University South Korea
433 Kyungpook National University South Korea
434 MINES ParisTech France
435 Nanjing Agricultural University China
436 Nanjing Medical University China
437 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China
438 Nanjing University of Science and Technology China
439 National Technical University of Athens Greece
440 New Mexico State University USA
441 Northeastern University (Shenyang) China
442 Northwest University China
443 Novosibirsk State University Russia
444 Oklahoma State University USA
445 Osaka City University Japan
446 Peking Union Medical College China
447 Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain
448 RMIT University Australia
449 Rush University USA
450 Simon Fraser University Canada
451 St George’s Hospital Medical School UK
452 Stellenbosch University South Africa
453 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden
454 Technical University Darmstadt Germany
455 Technical University of Berlin Germany
456 The University of Texas at Arlington USA
457 The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston USA
458 The University of Tokushima Japan
459 Thomas Jefferson University USA
460 Tokyo University of Science Japan
461 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea
462 Universitat Jaume I Spain
463 University at Albany (State University of New York) USA
464 University of Aveiro Portugal
465 University of Bayreuth Germany
466 University of Bremen Germany
467 University of Campinas brazil
468 University of Canterbury Australia
469 University of Coimbra Portugal
470 University of Ferrara Italy
471 University of Fribourg Switzerland
472 University of Hannover Germany
473 University of Iceland Iceland
474 University of Johannesburg South Africa
475 University of Konstanz Germany
476 University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
477 University of Ljubljana Slovenia
478 University of Malaya Malaysia
479 University of Marburg Germany
480 University of Minho Portugal
481 University of Montana – Missoula USA
482 University of New Hampshire – Durham USA
483 University of Nice Sophia Antipolis France
484 University of Oklahoma – Norman USA
485 University of Oulu Finland
486 University of Palermo Italy
487 University of Potsdam Germany
488 University of Regensburg Germany
489 University of Rostock Germany
490 University of Science, Malaysia Malaysia
491 University of the Basque Country Spain
492 University of Trieste Italy
493 University of Turku USA
494 University of Valencia Spain
495 University of Wyoming USA
496 Vienna University of Technology Austria
497 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Italy
498 Washington State University USA
499 West Virginia University USA
500 Wuhan University of Technology China
Methodology

To rank these universities, the following methodologies have been used. We are very careful about determining the ranking of universities. However, it is not possible to make it 100% perfect. Our ranking is 93% accurate. rest of the 7% may show insignificant fluctuations.

Selection of Universities

Selection of universities depends on –

  1. Nobel Laureates
  2. Fileds Medalists,
  3. Highly Cited Researchers,
  4. Highly Cited Scientific Papers,
  5. Index by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
Ranking Criteria and Weights

Universities are ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in Nature and Science, papers indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution. For each indicator, the highest scoring institution is assigned a score of 100, and other institutions are calculated as a percentage of the top score. The distribution of data for each indicator is examined for any significant distorting effect; standard statistical techniques are used to adjust the indicator if necessary. Scores for each indicator are weighted as shown below to arrive at a final overall score for an institution. The highest scoring institution is assigned a score of 100, and other institutions are calculated as a percentage of the top score. An institution’s rank reflects the number of institutions that sit above it.

Criteria Indicator Code Weight
Quality of Education Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Alumni 10%
Quality of Faculty Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Award 20%
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories HiCi 20%
Research Output Papers published in Nature and Science* N&S 20%
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index PUB 20%
Per Capita Performance Per capita academic performance of an institution PCP 10%
Total 100%
* For institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered, and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators.

Definition of Indicators

Indicator Definition
Alumni The total number of the alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. Alumni are defined as those who obtain bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees from the institution. Different weights are set according to the periods of obtaining degrees. The weight is 100% for alumni obtaining degrees in 2001-2010, 90% for alumni obtaining degrees in 1991-2000, 80% for alumni obtaining degrees in 1981-1990, and so on, and finally 10% for alumni obtaining degrees in 1911-1920. If a person obtains more than one degrees from an institution, the institution is considered once only.
Award The total number of the staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics and Fields Medal in Mathematics. Staff is defined as those who work at an institution at the time of winning the prize. Different weights are set according to the periods of winning the prizes. The weight is 100% for winners after 2011, 90% for winners in 2001-2010, 80% for winners in 1991-2000, 70% for winners in 1981-1990, and so on, and finally 10% for winners in 1921-1930. If a winner is affiliated with more than one institution, each institution is assigned the reciprocal of the number of institutions. For Nobel prizes, if a prize is shared by more than one person, weights are set for winners according to their proportion of the prize.
HiCi The number of Highly Cited Researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics.
N&S To distinguish the order of author affiliation, a weight of 100% is assigned for corresponding author affiliation, 50% for first author affiliation (second author affiliation if the first author affiliation is the same as corresponding author affiliation), 25% for the next author affiliation, and 10% for other author affiliations. When there are more than one corresponding author addresses, we consider the first corresponding author address as the corresponding author address and consider other corresponding author addresses as first author address, second author address etc. following the order of the author addresses. Only publications of ‘Article’ type is considered.
PUB Total number of papers indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index in this year. Only publications of ‘Article’ type is considered. When calculating the total number of papers of an institution, a special weight of two was introduced for papers indexed in Social Science Citation Index.
PCP The weighted scores of the above five indicators divided by the number of full-time equivalent academic staff. If the number of academic staff for institutions of a country cannot be obtained, the weighted scores of the above five indicators is used. For ARWU this year, the numbers of full-time equivalent academic staff are obtained for institutions in USA, UK, France, Canada, Japan, Italy, China, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, South Korea, Czech, Slovenia, New Zealand etc.
Data Sources
  1. Nobel Laureates from –  http://nobelprize.org/
  2. Fields Medals from – http://www.mathunion.org/index.php?id=prizewinners
  3. Highly cited researchers from – http://www.highlycited.com/
  4. Papers published in Nature and Science from – http://www.webofscience.com/
  5. Articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index from – http://www.webofscience.com/
  6. Others (confidential sources. As per agreement with the source, we cannot disclose the name of the sources)

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