THE World University Rankings 2021
Total 1,423 universities
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| 1 |
University of Oxford
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 95.6 | 91.3 | 99.6 | 98.0 | 68.7 | 96.4 |
| 2 |
Stanford University
(SU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 94.9 | 92.2 | 96.7 | 99.9 | 90.1 | 79.5 |
| 3 |
Harvard University
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🇺🇸 United States | 94.8 | 94.4 | 98.8 | 99.4 | 46.8 | 77.7 |
| 4 |
California Institute of Technology
(CIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 94.5 | 92.5 | 96.9 | 97.0 | 92.7 | 83.6 |
| 5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 94.4 | 90.7 | 94.4 | 99.7 | 90.4 | 90.0 |
| 6 |
University of Cambridge
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 94.0 | 90.3 | 99.2 | 95.6 | 52.1 | 95.7 |
| 7 |
University of California, Berkeley
(UCB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 92.2 | 85.8 | 97.2 | 99.1 | 84.3 | 72.3 |
| 8 |
Yale University
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🇺🇸 United States | 91.6 | 91.9 | 93.8 | 97.9 | 56.1 | 68.4 |
| 9 |
Princeton University
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🇺🇸 United States | 91.5 | 88.8 | 92.5 | 98.9 | 58.0 | 80.2 |
| 11 |
Imperial College London
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 89.4 | 82.3 | 88.2 | 97.2 | 69.6 | 97.4 |
| 12 |
Johns Hopkins University
(JHU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 89.2 | 81.6 | 91.8 | 97.7 | 93.4 | 73.9 |
| 13 |
University of Pennsylvania
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🇺🇸 United States | 88.9 | 85.4 | 89.9 | 98.1 | 77.9 | 66.3 |
| 14 |
ETH Zurich
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🇨🇭 Switzerland | 87.9 | 80.4 | 92.3 | 90.5 | 62.8 | 98.0 |
| 15 |
University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA)
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🇺🇸 United States | 87.1 | 82.5 | 90.2 | 96.5 | 57.6 | 65.3 |
| 16 |
University College London
(UCL)
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 86.9 | 76.6 | 89.4 | 96.2 | 42.1 | 96.5 |
| 17 |
Columbia University
(CU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 86.8 | 85.1 | 82.9 | 97.7 | 45.0 | 79.8 |
| 18 |
University of Toronto
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🇨🇦 Canada | 86.0 | 75.4 | 90.9 | 94.5 | 50.0 | 87.2 |
| 19 |
Cornell University
(CU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 85.3 | 78.8 | 86.7 | 97.2 | 36.3 | 73.7 |
| 20 = |
Duke University
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🇺🇸 United States | 84.8 | 80.7 | 80.4 | 96.9 | 99.7 | 65.5 |
| 20 = |
Tsinghua University
(THU)
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🇨🇳 China | 84.8 | 87.7 | 94.9 | 78.8 | 100.0 | 51.1 |
| 22 |
University of Michigan
(UM)
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🇺🇸 United States | 84.0 | 79.0 | 86.9 | 95.4 | 47.2 | 59.6 |
| 23 |
Peking University
(PKU)
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🇨🇳 China | 83.9 | 89.6 | 91.3 | 75.4 | 96.3 | 61.2 |
| 24 |
Northwestern University
(NU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 83.6 | 74.9 | 83.6 | 98.2 | 69.9 | 64.5 |
| 25 |
Duke-NUS Medical School
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🇸🇬 Singapore | 83.5 | 75.9 | 90.8 | 81.5 | 77.8 | 94.8 |
| 26 |
New York University
(NYU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 81.9 | 76.1 | 80.6 | 96.0 | 37.3 | 69.6 |
| 27 |
London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE)
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 81.4 | 68.5 | 82.5 | 94.3 | 34.1 | 92.8 |
| 28 |
Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 81.0 | 65.1 | 81.3 | 98.9 | 53.3 | 80.5 |
| 29 |
University of Washington
(UW)
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🇺🇸 United States | 80.4 | 69.8 | 80.5 | 98.7 | 45.6 | 60.9 |
| 30 |
University of Edinburgh
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 79.4 | 67.2 | 74.7 | 96.0 | 38.7 | 94.6 |
| 31 |
The University of Melbourne
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🇦🇺 Australia | 78.9 | 67.1 | 76.3 | 90.1 | 74.2 | 93.9 |
| 32 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(LMU)
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🇩🇪 Germany | 78.2 | 68.7 | 78.7 | 87.9 | 100.0 | 68.1 |
| 33 |
University of California San Diego
(UCSD)
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🇺🇸 United States | 77.7 | 60.3 | 80.4 | 94.3 | 95.6 | 64.4 |
| 35 |
King's College London
(KCL)
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 76.1 | 57.3 | 72.4 | 96.6 | 43.6 | 95.4 |
| 36 = |
Karolinska Institutet
(KI)
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🇸🇪 Sweden | 76.0 | 57.6 | 72.2 | 95.8 | 71.4 | 87.3 |
| 38 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
(GT)
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🇺🇸 United States | 75.8 | 59.5 | 76.8 | 91.1 | 65.8 | 78.9 |
| 39 |
University of Hong Kong
(HKU)
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 75.2 | 67.5 | 73.3 | 80.3 | 57.4 | 99.0 |
| 40 |
McGill University
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🇨🇦 Canada | 75.1 | 64.2 | 73.4 | 86.4 | 43.7 | 91.3 |
| 41 |
Technical University of Munich
(TUM)
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🇩🇪 Germany | 74.8 | 63.8 | 73.6 | 85.0 | 100.0 | 74.4 |
| 43 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL)
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🇨🇭 Switzerland | 74.1 | 63.9 | 66.7 | 85.8 | 73.3 | 98.5 |
| 45 |
KU Leuven
(KUL)
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🇧🇪 Belgium | 73.7 | 58.7 | 74.4 | 86.1 | 97.2 | 72.7 |
| 46 |
ParisTech
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🇫🇷 France | 73.6 | 71.2 | 73.0 | 75.9 | 61.7 | 80.6 |
| 47 |
Nanyang Technological University
(NTU)
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🇸🇬 Singapore | 72.7 | 57.1 | 71.9 | 83.0 | 83.2 | 94.0 |
| 48 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 72.3 | 62.5 | 79.1 | 81.3 | 49.5 | 55.1 |
| 49 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison
(UW)
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🇺🇸 United States | 71.4 | 68.2 | 71.4 | 82.5 | 45.0 | 48.4 |
| 50 |
Washington University in St. Louis
(WUSTL)
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🇺🇸 United States | 71.1 | 61.2 | 58.7 | 99.0 | 40.4 | 59.1 |
| 51 = |
University of Manchester
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 70.9 | 57.1 | 66.5 | 85.6 | 49.2 | 91.7 |
| 51 = |
The University of Sydney
(USYD)
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🇦🇺 Australia | 70.9 | 51.3 | 64.4 | 92.3 | 69.3 | 90.0 |
| 53 |
University of Southern California
(USC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 70.4 | 63.8 | 58.4 | 93.1 | 39.2 | 64.9 |
| 54 = |
Boston University
(BU)
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🇺🇸 United States | 70.3 | 58.9 | 60.9 | 94.9 | 41.7 | 64.9 |
| 54 = |
Kyoto University
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🇯🇵 Japan | 70.3 | 77.9 | 79.9 | 60.8 | 74.6 | 37.8 |