Top 100 universities in the world, 2021

Top 100 universities in the world, 2021

MIT is the best university in the world for the tenth consecutive year.
This year’s World University Rankings feature 1,029 universities in total.
Want to study at one of the world’s top 100 universities? The QS World University Rankings offers an annually updated list of top 1,029 universities worldwide. We will be revealing which of these made the top 100.

In the 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the US (which has 26 representatives) or the UK (18).

Here’s a complete rundown of the world’s top 100 universities.

Top 100 Universities in the World

According to the QS World University Rankings 2022

1. Rank
2. University
3. Location

   

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

This article was originally published in June 2013. It was last updated in June 2021