Top 100 Universities in the World: Best Colleges

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Our list of top 100 universities and colleges in the world is displayed below. This top colleges and universities list has been created after careful consideration and evaluation of numerous factors, including reputation, competitiveness, admissions criteria, etc. Like all lists of best universities and colleges, the criteria used to determine rank is somewhat subjective. We highly recommend that you use our list of top 100 universities and colleges as a rough guide.

Best Universities in the World

Rank	Name of University	Country
1	Harvard University	USA
2	University of Oxford	UK
3	University of Cambridge	UK
4	Stanford University	USA
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
6	University of California, Berkeley	USA
7	California Institute of Technology	USA
8	Princeton University	USA
9	Yale University	USA
10	University of Chicago	USA
11	Columbia University	USA
12	University of California, San Diego	USA
13	Cornell University	USA
14	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
15	University Pennsylvania	USA
16	University of Wisconsin, Madison	USA
17	University of Washington, Seattle	USA
18	Tokyo University	Japan
19	University of California, San Francisco	USA
20	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	USA
21	Kyoto University	Japan
22	Imperial College London	UK
23	Johns Hopkins University	USA
24	University of Toronto	Canada
25	University College London	UK
26	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	USA
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
28	Washington University, St. Louis	USA
29	New York University	USA
30	Duke University	USA
31	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
32	Northwestern University	USA
33	Rockefeller University	USA
34	University of Colorado, Boulder	USA
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA
36	University of British Columbia	Canada
37	University of Maryland, College Park	USA
38	Utrecht University	Netherlands
39	University of Texas, Austin	USA
40	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	USA
41	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	USA
42	University of California, Davis	USA
43	Vanderbilt University	USA
44	University of California, Irvine	USA
45	University of Paris 06	France
46	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh	USA
47	University of Southern California	USA
48	Rutgers State University, New Brunswick	USA
49	University of Manchester	UK
50	Karolinska Institute, Stockholm	Sweden
51	University of Munich	Germany
52	Technical University of Munich	Germany
53	University of Florida	USA
54	University of Edinburgh	UK
55	Australian National University	Australia
56	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
57	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
58	University of Zurich	Switzerland
59	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Israel
60	Osaka University	Japan
61	McGill University	Canada
62	University of Bristol	UK
63	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	USA
64	Uppsala University	Sweden
65	Ohio State University, Columbus	USA
66	University of Paris 11	France
67	University of Sheffield	UK
68	University of Heidelberg	Germany
69	University of Oslo	Norway
70	Case Western Reserve University	USA
71	Moscow State University	Russia
72	University of Leiden	Netherlands
73	Purdue University, West Lafayette	USA
74	University of Helsinki	Finland
75	University of Rochester	USA
76	University of Melbourne	Australia
77	Tohoku University	Japan
78	University of Nottingham	UK
79	University of Arizona	USA
80	Michigan State University	USA
81	King's College London	UK
82	Boston University	USA
83	University of Basel	Switzerland
84	Stockholm University	Sweden
85	Brown University	USA
86	University of Goettingen	Germany
87	Rice University	USA
88	Texas A&M University, College Station	USA
89	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
90	University of Birmingham	UK
91	University of Utah	USA
92	University of Freiburg	Germany
93	McMaster University	Canada
94	Nagoya University	Japan
95	University of Iowa	USA
96	University of Strasbourg 1	France
97	Ecole Normale Super Paris	France
98	Indiana University, Bloomington	USA
99	Arizona State University Tempe	USA
100	University of Rome La Sapienza	Italy