Top 100 Universities and Colleges in the World

OK, I know that Harvard is number 1 but that doesn’t mean that everyone has to fixate on Harvard or bust. Here are some of the top universities IN THE WORLD to think about from The Times Higher Education, UK. Did you know that…

#33 University of Illinois – Urbana

#38 Washington University Saint Louis

#43 University of Wisconsin

at #53 Tufts University outranks Ivy Leaguer #55 Brown University

at #98 University of Maryland College Park outranks Ivy Leaguer #99 Dartmouth College

This is the top ranking IN THE WORLD, people! Maybe it’s time to think about applying to colleges abroad. The world is only getting smaller, you know!

The World University Rankings – 201o

WORLD RANK	INSTITUTION	COUNTRY / REGION	OVERALL SCORE change
1	Harvard University	United States	96.1
2	California Institute of Technology	United States	96.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	95.6
4	Stanford University	United States	94.3
5	Princeton University	United States	94.2
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	91.2
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	91.2
8	University of California Berkeley	United States	91.1
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.6
10	Yale University	United States	89.5
11	University of California Los Angeles	United States	87.7
12	University of Chicago	United States	86.9
13	Johns Hopkins University	United States	86.4
14	Cornell University	United States	83.9
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	83.4
15	University of Michigan	United States	83.4
17	University of Toronto	Canada	82.0
18	Columbia University	United States	81.0
19	University of Pennsylvania	United States	79.5
20	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	79.3
21	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	79.2
22	University College London	United Kingdom	78.4
23	University of Washington	United States	78.0
24	Duke University	United States	76.5
25	Northwestern University	United States	75.9
26	University of Tokyo	Japan	75.6
27	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	75.3
28	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	75.1
29	University of California Santa Barbara	United States	75.0
30	University of British Columbia	Canada	73.8
30	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	73.8
32	University of California San Diego	United States	73.2
33	University of Illinois – Urbana	United States	73.0
34	National University of Singapore	Singapore	72.9
35	McGill University	Canada	71.7
36	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.0
37	Peking University	China	70.7
38	Washington University Saint Louis	United States	69.9
39	Ecole Polytechnique	France	69.5
40	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	69.2
41	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	69.0
42	Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	France	68.6
43	Australian National University	Australia	67.0
43	University of Göttingen	Germany	67.0
43	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	67.0
43	University of Wisconsin	United States	67.0
47	Rice University	United States	66.9
48	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne	Switzerland	66.5
49	University of Science and Technology of China	China	66.0
49	University of California Irvine	United States	66.0
51	Vanderbilt University	United States	65.9
52	University of Minnesota	United States	65.6
53	Tufts University	United States	65.2
54	University of California Davis	United States	65.0
55	Brown University	United States	64.9
56	University of Massachusetts	United States	64.7
57	Kyoto University	Japan	64.6
58	Tsinghua University	China	64.2
59	Boston University	United States	64.0
60	New York University	United States	63.9
61	University of Munich	Germany	63.0
61	Emory University	United States	63.0
63	University of Notre Dame	United States	62.8
64	University of Pittsburgh	United States	62.7
65	Case Western Reserve University	United States	62.2
66	Ohio State University	United States	62.1
67	University of Colorado	United States	61.6
68	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	61.4
68	University of California Santa Cruz	United States	61.4
68	Yeshiva University	United States	61.4
71	University of Sydney	Australia	61.2
72	University of Virginia	United States	61.1
73	University of Adelaide	Australia	60.7
73	University of Southern California	United States	60.7
75	William & Mary	United States	60.4
76	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	60.3
77	King’s College London	United Kingdom	59.7
78	Stony Brook University	United States	59.6
79	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	59.5
79	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	59.5
81	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	59.1
81	University of York	United Kingdom	59.1
83	Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	Germany	59.0
83	University of Utah	United States	59.0
85	Durham University	United Kingdom	58.9
86	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	58.3
87	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	58.0
88	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	57.9
89	Lund University	Sweden	57.8
90	University of Zurich	Switzerland	57.7
90	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	57.7
90	Wake Forest University	United States	57.7
93	McMaster University	Canada	57.6
94	University College Dublin	Ireland	57.5
95	University of Basel	Switzerland	57.3
95	George Washington University	United States	57.3
95	University of Arizona	United States	57.3
98	University of Maryland College Park	United States	57.2
99	Dartmouth College	United States	57.1
100	ENS de Lyon	France	57.0
101	Technical University of Munich	Germany	56.9
102	University of Helsinki	Finland	56.6
103	University of St. Andrews	United Kingdom	56.5
104	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	56.4
105	Rutgers the State University of New Jersey	United States	56.3
106	Purdue University	United States	56.2
107	University of Cape Town	South Africa	56.1
107	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	56.1
109	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	56.0
109	Pennsylvania State University	United States	56.0
111	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong	55.6
112	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	55.4
112	Bilkent University	Turkey	55.4
114	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	55.3
115	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	55.2
115	University of Hawaii	United States	55.2
117	University of California Riverside	United States	55.1
118	University of Geneva	Switzerland	55.0
119	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium	54.8
120	Nanjing University	China	54.6
120	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom	54.6
122	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	54.5
122	Michigan State University	United States	54.5
124	Ghent University	Belgium	54.4
124	Leiden University	Netherlands	54.4
124	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	54.4
127	University of Alberta	Canada	54.3
128	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	54.2
129	Stockholm University	Sweden	54.0
130	University of Victoria	Canada	53.4
130	Osaka University	Japan	53.4
132	University of Freiburg	Germany	53.3
132	Tohoku University	Japan	53.3
132	University of Iowa	United States	53.3
135	University of Bergen	Norway	52.7
136	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	52.6
137	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	52.5
138	University of Montreal	Canada	52.4
139	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	52.3
140	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	52.2
140	University of Dundee	United Kingdom	52.2
142	University of Barcelona	Spain	52.1
143	Utrecht University	Netherlands	52.0
144	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	51.9
145	University of Auckland	New Zealand	51.8
145	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	51.8
147	Alexandria University	Egypt	51.6
147	Uppsala University	Sweden	51.6
149	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	51.4
149	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	51.4
151	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	51.3
152	University of New South Wales	Australia	51.2
152	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom	51.2
152	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	51.2
155	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	51.1
156	Indiana University	United States	51.0
156	Iowa State University	United States	51.0
158	Medical College of Georgia	United States	50.7
159	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	50.4
159	University of Delaware	United States	50.4
161	Arizona State University	United States	50.3
161	Boston College	United States	50.3
163	National Sun Yat-Sen University	Taiwan	50.2
164	Georgetown University	United States	50.1
165	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	50.0
165	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	50.0
167	Aarhus University	Denmark	49.9
168	University of Würzburg	Germany	49.8
168	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	49.8
170	University of Groningen	Netherlands	49.7
171	Sun Yat-sen University	China	49.6
172	Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main	Germany	49.4
173	Bielefeld University	Germany	49.3
174	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	49.0
174	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	49.0
174	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	49.0
177	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	48.8
178	Monash University	Australia	48.5
178	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	48.5
178	University of Bonn	Germany	48.5
181	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	48.3
182	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	48.2
183	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	47.7
184	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	47.6
185	University of Twente	Netherlands	47.5
186	University of Konstanz	Germany	47.3
187	University of Innsbruck	Austria	47.2
187	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	47.2
189	Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen	Germany	47.0
190	Yonsei University	Republic of Korea	46.9
190	Drexel University	United States	46.9
190	University of Cincinnati	United States	46.9
193	Dalhousie University	Canada	46.8
193	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	46.8
195	University of Vienna	Austria	46.7
196	Kent State University	United States	46.5
197	Zhejiang University	China	46.4
197	University of Illinois – Chicago	United States	46.4
199	Simon Fraser University	Canada	46.2
199	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden

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2 thoughts on “The Top 200 Universities IN THE WORLD (i.e. Other great colleges besides Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT People!)”

Dick Liou says:

October 14, 2011 at 5:36 pm

Thanks for sharing this list! There is enough pressure out there (for both parents and kids) to find the right type of education and help set a solid foundation for life that searching for them can be a pain. This list helps us with a road-map to begin our research.

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  October 20, 2011 at 3:49 pm
  
  To Dick,
  I am glad this list is helpful. I think that casting a wide net when applying to colleges is a good idea and luckily there are lots of great colleges out there in the United States but also internationally!

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