World's Best Universities

Forbes List of the Top 50 World's Best Universities

1. University of Oxford, UK
2. University of Cambridge, UK
3. Stanford University, USA
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
5. California Institute of Technology, USA
6. Harvard University, USA
7. Princeton University, USA
8. Yale University, USA
9. Imperial College London, UK
10. University of Chicago, USA
11. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12. John Hopkins University, USA
13. University of Pennsylvania, USA
14. UCL, UK
15. University of California, Berkeley, USA
16. Columbia University, USA
17. University of California, Los Angeles, USA
18. Duke University, USA
19. Cornell University, USA
20. University of Michigan, USA
21. University of Toronto, Canada
22. Tsinghua University, China
23. National University of Singapore
24. Carnegie Mellon University, USA
25. Northwestern University, USA
26. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
27. New York University, USA
28. University of Washington, USA
29. University of Edinburgh, Scotland
30. University of California, San Diego, USA
31. Peking University, China
32. LMU Munich, Germany
33. University of Melbourne, Australia
34. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
35. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, France
36. University of Hong Kong
37. University of British Columbia, Canada
38. King’s College London, UK
39. University of Texas at Austin, USA
40. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
41. Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris, France
42. The University of Tokyo
43. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
44. McGill University, Canada
45. Technical University of Munich, Germany
46. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
47. Heidelberg University
48. KU Leuven, Belgium
49. Australian National University, Australia
50. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA