Top 200 Universities in the World 2018
Based on the QS World University Rankings 2018 |
| Rank | University | Locaiton |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 7 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 9 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 10 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 11 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 12 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 13 | Princeton University | United States |
| 14 | Cornell University | United States |
| 15 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 16 | Yale University | United States |
| 17 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 18 | Columbia University | United States |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 20 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 21= | Duke University | United States |
| 21= | University of Michigan | United States |
| 23= | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 23= | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 26 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 27 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 28= | Northwestern University | United States |
| 28= | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 30 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 31 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 32 | McGill University | Canada |
| 33 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 34 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 35 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom |
| 36= | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 36= | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 38= | Peking University | China |
| 38= | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 40 | Fudan University | China |
| 41= | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
| 41= | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 43 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France |
| 44 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 45 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 46 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| 47= | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 47= | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 49 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 50 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
| 51 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 52 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
| 53 | Brown University | United States |
| 54 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 55 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 56 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 57 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 58 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 59 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
| 60 | Monash University | Australia |
| 61 | University of Washington | United States |
| 62 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 63 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 64 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 65 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 66 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München | Germany |
| 67 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 68 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg | Germany |
| 69 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 70 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 71= | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 71= | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
| 73= | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 73= | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 75 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina |
| 76= | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan |
| 76= | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 78= | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 78= | Lund University | Sweden |
| 80 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States |
| 81 | Boston University | United States |
| 82= | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 82= | The University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 84= | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 84= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 86 | The Ohio State University | United States |
| 87 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 88 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | Ireland |
| 89 | Rice University | United States |
| 90= | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 90= | Korea University | South Korea |
| 92 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 93= | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 93= | The University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 95= | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
| 95= | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 97 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 98= | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 98= | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 100 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 101 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 102= | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 102= | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 104 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 105 | Purdue University | United States |
| 106 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 107 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 108 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| 109= | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 109= | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 109= | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 112 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 113 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 114= | Nanjing University | China |
| 114= | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia |
| 116= | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 116= | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 118 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 119 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 120 | Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin | Germany |
| 121 | Universidade de S?o Paulo | Brazil |
| 122= | Hokkaido University | Japan |
| 122= | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico |
| 124 | Wageningen University | Netherlands |
| 125= | Freie Universitaet Berlin | Germany |
| 125= | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 127 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 128 | Kyushu University | Japan |
| 129 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 130 | Université de Montréal | Canada |
| 131 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France |
| 132 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 133 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
| 134 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States |
| 135= | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 135= | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 137= | Aalto University | Finland |
| 137= | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 137= | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile |
| 140 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 141 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 142= | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 142= | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 144 | Technische Universit?t Berlin (TU Berlin) | Germany |
| 145 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 146 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 147= | Emory University | United States |
| 147= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 149= | Michigan State University | United States |
| 149= | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 151 | University of Otago | New Zealand |
| 152 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 153 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium |
| 154 | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 155 | Hanyang University | South Korea |
| 156 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain |
| 157 | école Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
| 158= | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 158= | The University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| 160 | University of Bath | United Kingdom |
| 161= | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan |
| 161= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 163 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 164= | Eberhard Karls Universit?t Tübingen | Germany |
| 164= | University of Bergen | Norway |
| 164= | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 167 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 168 | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| 169 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 170 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
| 171 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg | Germany |
| 172 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | India |
| 173= | University of Virginia | United States |
| 173= | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals | Saudi Arabia |
| 173= | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 176 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 177 | CentraleSupélec | France |
| 178 | University of Florida | United States |
| 179= | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | India |
| 179= | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 181 | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
| 182= | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | Brazil |
| 182= | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 182= | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Belgium |
| 182= | Vienna University of Technology | Austria |
| 186 | University of Rochester | United States |
| 187 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Spain |
| 188= | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | Italy |
| 188= | University of Reading | United Kingdom |
| 190 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | India |
| 191 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 192= | Keio University | Japan |
| 192= | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Italy |
| 192= | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento | Italy |
| 195= | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 195= | Technische Universit?t Dresden | Germany |
| 195= | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 195= | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain |
| 199 | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey | Mexico |
| 200 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |