These Are The Top 50 Universities In The World

What do all the top 50 universities from around the world have in common? A specific location? A similar founding goal? Nope. They’re all on this handy infographic and report!

It examines the top 50 schools as chosen by Times Higher Education who states that their results are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

In case you’re wondering, below the infographic is the list of the top 50 universities in the world. Worth a look!

Infographic source: The Best Colleges

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Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score change criteria
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	95.5
2	Stanford University	United States	93.7
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.7
4	Harvard University	United States	93.6
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	93.1
6	Princeton University	United States	92.7
7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.6
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.6
9	University of California, Berkeley	United States	90.5
10	University of Chicago	United States	90.4
11	Yale University	United States	89.2
12	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	87.8
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.7
14	Columbia University	United States	87.0
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	86.6
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.6
17	University College London	United Kingdom	85.5
18	Cornell University	United States	83.3
19	Northwestern University	United States	83.1
20	University of Michigan	United States	82.6
21	University of Toronto	Canada	82.2
22	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.5
23	Duke University	United States	81.2
24	University of Washington	United States	79.9
25	University of Texas at Austin	United States	78.8
25	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	78.8
27	University of Tokyo	Japan	78.3
28	University of Melbourne	Australia	77.9
29	National University of Singapore	Singapore	77.5
30	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.3
31	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	76.9
32	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	76.1
33	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	75.8
34	McGill University	Canada	75.7
35	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	75.6
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	75.6
37	Australian National University	Australia	75.4
38	University of California, San Diego	United States	75.2
39	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	73.1
40	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	73.0
41	New York University	United States	72.8
42	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	72.4
42	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	72.4
44	University of California, Davis	United States	71.8
44	Washington University in St Louis	United States	71.8
46	Peking University	China	70.7
47	University of Minnesota	United States	70.5
48	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	70.4
49	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	70.1
50	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	69.4